1/1 New Year’s Day
1/1 Emancipation Proclamation (Black American)
1/2 New Year’s Day Holiday
1/4 Birthday of Louis Braille (Creator of system of reading and writing for visually impaired)
1/4 National Braille Day
1/5 Guru Gobind Singh Ji Jayanti (Sikh)
1/6 Feast of Epiphany (Christian)
1/7 Mahayana New Year (Buddhist)
1/9 Guru Gobind Singh Birthday (Sikh)
1/11 Birthday of Alice Paul (Women’s Rights Pioneer)
1/13 Lohri- Maghi (Sikh)
1/15 Makarsankranti (Hindu festival to Sun God, Surya)
1/15 World Religious Freedom Day
1/16 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
1/18 World Religion Day
1/22 Lunar New Year (Year of Rabbit)
1/24 International Day of Education
1/26 International Customs Day
1/26 Vasant Panchami (Hindu)
1/27 International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (UN)
Color Shape Key
Green Triangle – Diversity Leaders’ Birthdays
Blue Circle – United States Holidays
Red Bar – Religious / Cultural Holidays
Purple Star- International Holidays
Black Square – Equinoxes