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The Top Holiday Albums chart is a seasonal chart published weekly by Billboard during October, November, December, and January. It tracks the best-selling holiday albums in the United States. Throughout the 2010s, many albums, compilation albums , extended plays , and soundtrack albums reached the top spot of the chart.
Presidents' Day, officially Washington's Birthday at the federal governmental level, is a holiday in the United States celebrated on the third Monday of February. It is often celebrated to honor all those who served as presidents of the United States and, since 1879, has been the federal holiday honoring Founding Father George Washington, who led the Continental Army to victory in the American ...
2017 Maiduguri attack. Multiple suicide blasts occur at a refugee camp near Maiduguri, Nigeria, leaving eight people dead and wounding 18 others. An Israeli Army tank kills a Palestinian teenager and wounds two others near the Gaza border. (The Jerusalem Post) March 2017 Israel–Syria incident
The date of May 1 (an ancient European folk holiday known as May Day) emerged in 1886 as an alternative holiday for the celebration of labor, later becoming known as International Workers' Day. The date had its origins at the 1885 convention of the American Federation of Labor, which passed a resolution calling for adoption of the eight-hour ...
This is an almanac-like listing of major Jewish holidays from 2000 to 2050. All Jewish holidays begin at sunset on the evening before the date shown. ... (2016–2017 ...
Nowruz or Navroz (Persian: نوروز [noːˈɾuːz]) [t] is the Iranian New Year or Persian New Year. [28] [29] Historically, it has been observed by Persians and other Iranian peoples, [30] but is now celebrated by many ethnicities worldwide.
With the passing of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the list of annual public holidays for 2017 was revised by the cabinet in April 2017. [9] Coronation Day, which was previously observed on 5 May, was temporarily removed, but will be observed from 2020 onwards, with the new date of 4 May, which will be a double anniversary of the coronations of Kings ...
An example activity for 2017 was the Wikipedia edit-a-thon organized by members of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance on 19–21 March 2017. The purpose of the activity was to improve water and sanitation related content on Wikipedia just ahead of World Water Day.