New Year's Day
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Sunday January 1, 2023
Secular holiday : The world's most widely celebrated holiday, New Years was set on January 1 by Julius Caesar because that was the date the Roman consuls took over their duties. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Admission Day (not a public holiday)
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Tuesday January 3, 2023
Culture : Admitted as 49th State on Jan 3, 1959
Winter holiday (end)
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Monday January 9, 2023
School holidays : Www.asdk12.org
in Anchorage
PISA ranking (average 493): 496
Schooling is mandatory till age 18
Average class size: more than 26
Average class size: more than 26
number of instructional days and/or hours in the school year: 170 day / 760 hours (grade K3) - 900 hours (grades 4-12)
Teaching languages: Spanish, English
schools may open on Saturday
school uniforms not required
University of Alaska - Fairbanks ranking: Times Higher Education #301-400/QS ranking #--/Shanghai #401-500
We carry confirmed dates till June 2026
; Further dates are projected dates based on previous years
Please note that authorities may take last-minute decisions; please double-check if this information is vital to you
Contact
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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Monday January 16, 2023
Secular holiday : Martin Luther King was a U.S civil rights leader and American clergyman. His non-violent demonstrations against racial inequality led to civil rights legislation. He was assassinated in 1968.
President's Day
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Monday February 20, 2023
School holidays :
President's Day
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Monday February 20, 2023
Banks only : Commemorates the births of George Washington (22.2.1732) and Abraham Lincoln (12.2.1809). The memory of Americas first president, George Washington, was once celebrated on his birthday, February 22nd. The date was changed to the third Monday in February to create a three-day weekend Banks, post office and governement close, but businesses, more and more, remain open, as well as universities. These banks remain open: Chase Bank, TD Bank, Wells Fargo
Spring holiday (beginning)
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Friday March 10, 2023
School holidays :
Spring holiday (end)
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Monday March 20, 2023
School holidays :
Seward's day
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Monday March 27, 2023
Secular holiday : Commemorating the signing of the treaty by which the United States bought Alaska from Russia on March 30, 1867. Named after the Secretary of State William H. Seward, who negotiated the purchase.
Juneau Alaska Folk Festival
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Monday April 10, 2023
Culture : Http://akfolkfest.org lasts 7 days - 2023 edition confirmed
Mothers' Day
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Sunday May 14, 2023
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers 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. Howes 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 womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday May 24, 2023
School holidays :
Memorial Day
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Monday May 29, 2023
Secular holiday : Observed on the last Monday in May in most of the United States, in honour of the nations armed services personnel killed in wartime and the deceased in general. Created after the Civil War, it is traditionally marked by parades, memorial speeches
Fathers' Day
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Sunday June 18, 2023
cards/flowers :
Juneteenth National Freedom Day
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Monday June 19, 2023
Banks only : To remember and honor the freeing, in Galveston, Texas, in 1865, of the last slaves in the United States from 2019 on
Mount Marathon race
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Tuesday July 4, 2023
Sports events : Https://mountmarathon.com/ 2023 edition confirmed
Independence Day
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Tuesday July 4, 2023
Secular holiday : Commemorates the formal adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The Fourth is traditionally celebrated publicly with parades and pageants, patriotic speeches, and organized firing of guns and cannons and displays of fireworks.