US Holidays 2008:


January 2008

1 New Year’s Day*
1 Gantan-sai (New Years) (Shinto)
7 Orthodox Christmas (Orthodox Christian)
10 Muharramn/New Year (Islam)
14 Orthodox New Year (Orthodox Christian)
21 Martin Luther King Day*
22 Tu B’shvat (Arbor Day) (Jewish)

February 2008
1-28 Black History Month
1-28 National Children’s Dental Health Month
2 Groundhog Day
5 Mardi Gras
5 Shrove Tuesday (Christian)
6 Ash Wednesday (Christian)
7 Chinese New Year
12 Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
14 Valentine’s Day
18 President’s Day (Washington’s Birthday) *

March 2008

1-31 American Red Cross Month
1-31 Irish American Heritage Month
1-31 Music In Our Schools Month
1-31 National Mental Retardation Awareness Month
1-31 National Nutrition Month
1-31 Women’s History Month
1-31 Youth Art Month
2 NEA’s Read Across America
3-9 National Foreign Language Week
3-7 National School Breakfast Week
3 Adoption of U.S. National Anthem
8 International Women’s Day
9 Daylight Savings Time starts
11 Johnny Appleseed Day
4 * - denotes Federal holiday 9/14/2007
- Means that Holy days begin at sundown the day before this date.
16-22 National Poison Prevention Week
16 Palm Sunday (Christian)
17 St. Patrick’s Day
20 Spring equinox
20 Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
21 Good Friday (Christian)
21 Magha Puja (Buddhist)
21 Purim (Jewish)
21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
23 Easter (Christian)

April 2008

1-30 Keep America Beautiful Month
1 April Fool’s Day
2 International Children’s Book Day
7 World Health Day
13 Baisakhi (Sikh)
13-19 National Library Week
14-20 Young People’s Poetry Week
20-21 Pesach (Passover) first two days (Jewish)
20-26 Public School Volunteer Week
22 Earth Day
23 Administrative Professionals’ Day
24 Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
25 Holy Friday (Orthodox Christian)
25 National Arbor Day
27 Easter/Pascha (Orthodox Christian)
24-26 Pesach (Passover) final two days (Jewish)

May 2008

1-31 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
1-31 Better Hearing and Speech Month
1-31 National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
1-31 National Sight Saving Month
1 Ascension Day (Christian)
1 Law Day
1 National Day of Prayer
2 Yom HaSho’ah (Jewish)
3 World Press Freedom Day
4-11 National Music Week
4-10 Be Kind to Animals Week
4-10 Teacher Appreciation Week
5 * - denotes Federal holiday 9/14/2007
- Means that Holy days begin at sundown the day before this date.
5 Cinco de Mayo (Mexican)
6 National Teacher Day
8 VE Day
8 World Red Cross Day
8 Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Jewish)
11 Mother’s Day
11 Pentecost (Chrisitan)
17 Armed Forces Day
18-24 National Educational Bosses’ Week
18 Trinity Sunday (Christian)
20 Buddha Day – Visakha Puja (Buddhist)
22 Corpus Christi (Catholic Christian)
22 International Day for Biological Diversity
23 Declaration of the Bab (Baha’i)
23 Lag B’Omer (Jewish)
26 Memorial Day*
29 Ascension of Baha‘u’llah (Baha’i)

June 2008

5 World Environment Day
8 Race Unity Day
9-10 Shavuot (Jewish)
11 Trinity (Christian)
14 Flag Day/Army Day
15-19 National History Day Contest
15 Father’s Day
15 Magna Carta Day
19 Juneteenth (Liberation of Slaves)
21 Summer solstice

July 2008
4 Independence Day*
18 Asalha Puja Day – Dharma Day (Buddhist)
27 Parents Day

August 2008
1 Air Force Day
3 Friendship Day
4 Coast Guard Day
10 Tisha B’Av (Jewish)
28 Krishna Janmashtami (Hindu)
6 * - denotes Federal holiday 9/14/2007
- Means that Holy days begin at sundown the day before this date.

September 2008

1 Labor Day*
2 Ramadan begins (Islam)
7 Grandparents Day
17 Constitution Day/Citizenship Day
22 Fall equinox
27 Laylat al Qadr (Islam)
30/10-1 Rosh Hashana (Jewish)

October 2008
2 Eid al Fitr – Ramadan ends (Islam)
9 Dasera (Hindu)
9 Yom Kippur (Jewish)
12 National Children’s Day
13 Columbus Day*
13 Navy Day
16 Bosses’ Day
18 Sweetest Day
26 Mother-In-Law’s Day
28 Diwali – Deepavali (Hindu, Sikh, Jain)
31 All Hallows Eve

November 2008

2 Daylight Savings Time Ends
4 Election Day
10 Marine Corps Day
11 Veteran’s Day*
13 Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Sahib (Sikh)
27 Thanksgiving Day*

December 2008
7 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
9 Eid al Adha (Islam)
21 Hanukkah
21 Winter solstice
24 Christmas Eve
25 Christmas Day*
26 Kwanzaa (thru January 1) (African-American)
31 New Year’s Eve

Jewish Holidays 2008:




Tue 08-Jan-2008  Rosh Chodesh Sh'vat
Tue 22-Jan-2008  Tu B'Shvat
Wed 06-Feb-2008  Rosh Chodesh Adar I
Thu 07-Feb-2008  Rosh Chodesh Adar I
Wed 20-Feb-2008  Purim Katan
Fri 07-Mar-2008  Rosh Chodesh Adar II
Sat 08-Mar-2008  Rosh Chodesh Adar II
Sat 08-Mar-2008  Shabbat Shekalim
Sat 15-Mar-2008  Shabbat Zachor
Thu 20-Mar-2008  Ta'anit Esther
Fri 21-Mar-2008  Purim
Sun 23-Mar-2008  Shushan Purim
Sat 29-Mar-2008  Shabbat Parah
Sat 05-Apr-2008  Shabbat HaChodesh
Sun 06-Apr-2008  Rosh Chodesh Nisan
Thu 17-Apr-2008  Ta'anit Bechorot
Sat 19-Apr-2008  Shabbat HaGadol
Sat 19-Apr-2008  Erev Pesach
Sun 20-Apr-2008  Pesach I
Mon 21-Apr-2008  Pesach II
Tue 22-Apr-2008  Pesach III (CH''M)
Wed 23-Apr-2008  Pesach IV (CH''M)
Thu 24-Apr-2008  Pesach V (CH''M)
Fri 25-Apr-2008  Pesach VI (CH''M)
Sat 26-Apr-2008  Pesach VII
Sun 27-Apr-2008  Pesach VIII
Fri 02-May-2008  Yom HaShoah
Mon 05-May-2008  Rosh Chodesh Iyyar
Tue 06-May-2008  Rosh Chodesh Iyyar
Wed 07-May-2008  Yom HaZikaron
Thu 08-May-2008  Yom HaAtzma'ut
Fri 23-May-2008  Lag B'Omer
Mon 02-Jun-2008  Yom Yerushalayim
Wed 04-Jun-2008  Rosh Chodesh Sivan
Sun 08-Jun-2008  Erev Shavuot
Mon 09-Jun-2008  Shavuot I
Tue 10-Jun-2008  Shavuot II
Thu 03-Jul-2008  Rosh Chodesh Tamuz
Fri 04-Jul-2008  Rosh Chodesh Tamuz
Sun 20-Jul-2008  Tzom Tammuz
Sat 02-Aug-2008  Rosh Chodesh Av
Sat 09-Aug-2008  Shabbat Hazon
Sun 10-Aug-2008  Tish'a B'Av
Sat 16-Aug-2008  Shabbat Nachamu
Sun 31-Aug-2008  Rosh Chodesh Elul
Mon 01-Sep-2008  Rosh Chodesh Elul
Mon 29-Sep-2008  Erev Rosh Hashana
Tue 30-Sep-2008  Rosh Hashana 5769
Wed 01-Oct-2008  Rosh Hashana II
Thu 02-Oct-2008  Tzom Gedaliah
Sat 04-Oct-2008  Shabbat Shuva
Wed 08-Oct-2008  Erev Yom Kippur
Thu 09-Oct-2008  Yom Kippur
Mon 13-Oct-2008  Erev Sukkot
Tue 14-Oct-2008  Sukkot I
Wed 15-Oct-2008  Sukkot II
Thu 16-Oct-2008  Sukkot III (CH''M)
Fri 17-Oct-2008  Sukkot IV (CH''M)
Sat 18-Oct-2008  Sukkot V (CH''M)
Sun 19-Oct-2008  Sukkot VI (CH''M)
Mon 20-Oct-2008  Sukkot VII (Hoshana Raba)
Tue 21-Oct-2008  Shmini Atzeret
Wed 22-Oct-2008  Simchat Torah
Wed 29-Oct-2008  Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
Thu 30-Oct-2008  Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
Fri 28-Nov-2008  Rosh Chodesh Kislev
Sun 21-Dec-2008  Chanukah: 1 Candle
Mon 22-Dec-2008  Chanukah: 2 Candles
Tue 23-Dec-2008  Chanukah: 3 Candles
Wed 24-Dec-2008  Chanukah: 4 Candles
Thu 25-Dec-2008  Chanukah: 5 Candles
Fri 26-Dec-2008  Chanukah: 6 Candles
Sat 27-Dec-2008  Rosh Chodesh Tevet
Sat 27-Dec-2008  Chanukah: 7 Candles
Sun 28-Dec-2008  Rosh Chodesh Tevet
Sun 28-Dec-2008  Chanukah: 8 Candles
Mon 29-Dec-2008  Chanukah: 8th Day