| Spring holiday (end) - Sunday April 5, 2020 School holidays :
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| Labor Day/May Day - Friday May 1, 2020 Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
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| Ramadan holiday (beginning) - Thursday May 21, 2020 School holidays :
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| End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day) - Sunday May 24, 2020 Muslim, Sufi :
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| End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day) - Monday May 25, 2020 Muslim, Sufi : Ends the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. There were 30 days of strict fasting from sunup to sundown in honor of the first revelation to the Prophet Mohammed. In India, except in Arunachal Pradesh.
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| International Trade Fair - Saturday May 30, 2020 Tradeshows : Lasts 1 week -
http://safex.dz in Algiers 2020 edition NOT confirmed
Contact edit@edit.fr to get the calendar for this event or one file containing confirmed calendars of most international WW tradeshows.
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| Ramadan holiday (end) - Sunday May 31, 2020 School holidays :
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| Mother's Day - Sunday May 31, 2020 cards/flowers : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year. One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world. Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day. In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation.
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 21, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Saturday July 4, 2020 School holidays :
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| Independence Day - Sunday July 5, 2020 Secular holiday : Commemorates the Evian agreements of 1962 marking the formal end to the war of independence with France (Evian treaty)
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| Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) - Friday July 31, 2020 Muslim, Sufi : Also written Id al'Adha (or Eid Al-Adha) is the Feast of the Sacrifice , the second main celebration of Islam. It takes place on the tenth day of the twelfth -- last month of the Islamic calendar and celebrates Abraham's (also written Ibrahim) willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to God. Muslims make their annual pilgrimage, or the Hajj , to Makkah (Mecca) in Saudi Arabia. paid holiday when falling on Friday or Saturday
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