Labor Day/May Day
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Wednesday may 1, 2024
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 .
Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Monday june 17, 2024
Muslim, Sufi :
Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Tuesday june 18, 2024
Muslim, Sufi :
Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Wednesday june 19, 2024
Muslim, Sufi :
Ashura
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Tuesday july 16, 2024
Muslim, Sufi : Husayn ibn Ali martyrdom day, killed in the year 680 in Kerbala (Iraq) fighting injustice. paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Ashura
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Wednesday july 17, 2024
Muslim, Sufi : Husayn ibn Ali martyrdom day, killed in the year 680 in Kerbala (Iraq) fighting injustice. paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Independence Day
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Wednesday august 14, 2024
Secular holiday : Pakistan was formed on August 14, 1947 with two parts in the eastern and northwestern regions of South Asia, separated by Hindu-majority India. [Wikipedia] [Wikipedia]
Prophet's Anniversary - Eid-Milad Nnabi (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Monday september 16, 2024
Muslim, Sufi :
Regional holiday
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Thursday october 24, 2024
Secular holiday : Founding Day of Azad Jammu and Kashmir state Azad Jammu and Kashmir state only
Deepavali/Dipabali
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Friday november 1, 2024
Hinduism : From 2019 onwards
Iqbal Day
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Saturday november 9, 2024
Secular holiday : Sir Muhammad Iqbal (November 1877 – 21 April 1938), was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in the Urdu language is considered among the greatest of the twentieth century, and whose vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British-ruled India was to animate the impulse for Pakistan from 2022 [Wikipedia]