public holiday thread

Tonga, Happy Independence Day!

Denmark's Constitution Day must be celebrated!

Today is the day to honor the brilliant Engineers of Argentina: ¡Gracias, ingenieros argentinos! ¡Continuar el buen trabajo!

i don't know who St. Colmcille is but i'm glad the irish are celebrating today

Hoje é dia de Portugal! Pode você comemorar falando alta na frente de minha casa, e fazendo exame de 25 minutos para estacionar mal seu BMW….

Kamehameha Day, honoring:

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oh my goodness we nearly missed Dia dos Namorados. <3<3<3, Brazil.

hey it's FLAG DAY!

HAPP Y FLAD DAY WE WILL DCEELEBRATE U BELZATEDLY>.

Bloomsday. What is it, you ask? It is Dublin's annual commemoration of James Joyce.

In honor of the day -- and the man -- I will be lunching on a gorgonzola cheese sandwich and a glass of burgundy. Tonight we shall reinact the entirety of Ulysses and then go pub crawling.

you're a re-enactor i always knew it.

so i've been eyeing flag day on the calendar for weeks, making plans to go through its history and then post some flags. and what came of it? naught. way to flake, jeez.

well anyway happy belated flag day and happy S. African YOOF Day

Happy Father's Day! Thanks for being so great, PRK.

HAPPY JUNETEENTH! A MOST AWESOME HOLIDAY!!!

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Stay tuned: more later.

That picture is of an Emancipation Day (another name for Juneteenth) Celebration in 1900.

Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is an annual holiday in fourteen states of the United States. Celebrated on June 19, it commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas. The holiday originated in Galveston, Texas; for more than a century, the state of Texas was the primary home of Juneteenth celebrations. However, one small community in Arkansas (Wilmar) boasts that its celebration, called "June Dinner" has been consistently observed and celebrated, except for one year, since approximately 1870. Since 1980, Juneteenth has been an official state holiday in Texas. It is considered a "partial staffing holiday" meaning that state offices do not close but some employees will be using a floating holiday to take the day off. Thirteen other states list it as an official holiday, including Arkansas, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Alaska, and California where Governor Schwarzenegger proclaimed June 19th "Juneteenth" on June 19, 2005. However, some of these states, such as Connecticut, do not consider it a legal holiday and do not close government offices in observance of the occasion. Its informal observance has spread to some other states including Alabama, with a few celebrations even taking place in other countries.

While Juneteenth is not a recognized holiday in our state, Jergins and I will be recognizing it at the ballpark, as Miguel Batista and the Seattle Mariners take on the Pittsburg Pirates, led by Tom Gorzelanny, in interleague play.

Whoohoo Juneteenth is indeed awesome and we should all get the day OFF! There's usually a celebration in the Central District, but really it deserves more recognition as a holiday.

solstice should be a holiday

Jaaniõhtu: let's have a bonfire

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guys, i am proud of you and proud to know you. and proud to live in a place where we are all welcomed.

hearts and flowers to my good friends rr, kf, dh, ap.

ja, thanks for hosting us today.

special to allen remington and ben burnett: i love you, i miss you, i wish you were here.

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otm. may the civil rights issue of our time be resolved in our time

Holy Day of Obligation, goddamn it, as if i don't have enough to do already. jesus.

oh, canada. it's your day.

also, hong kong special administrative region establishment day. that's a name, huh? cool fireworks.

not exactly a reason to celebrate, but nevertheless noteworthy:

on this date in 1937 amelia earhart and fred noonan disappeared over the pacific ocean while a attempting a circumnavigational flight. some believe that earhart is now living as a member of a cultish group of hysterics on an magic, invisible island near fiji.

ah so L O S T

Happy Independence Day, Belarus!!

Happy Friends' Day to our good friends in Argentina!

wow, we've really had a dearth of public holidays lately.

apologies to France for not recognizing Bastille Day.

we will celebrate José Celso Barbosa Day by going to portland to visit our friends and see some music. in case you don't know:

Dr. José Celso Barbosa (Bayamón, July 27, 1857 – September 21, 1921) was a medical doctor, sociologist, and political leader of Puerto Rico. He was also the first racially-mixed resident to attend Puerto Rico's prestigious Jesuit Seminary.

Puerto Rico is the Portland of Latin America

Independence Day in Vanuatu AND Father-in-Law's Day

well that makes sense

this is interesting:

Ka Hae Hawaiʻi, or the Flag of Hawaiʻi, is the official standard symbolizing Hawaiʻi as a kingdom, protectorate, republic, territory and state. Ka Hae Hawaiʻi is the only state flag in the United States to have been flown under so many various forms of government and the only one that features the Union Flag, the flag of the United Kingdom.

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Happy Ka Hae Hawaiʻi Day!

today is the 715th anniversary of the swiss federation?

Flag Day in Ukraine!

also:

Umhlanga Day (Reed Dance Day) is an annual festival in Swaziland when young women gather reeds to protect the windbreak of the Queen Mother's house.

and let's not forget Vulcanalia:

In Roman religion, Vulcan is the god of destructive and devouring fire whether helpful or harmful,[1] including the fire of volcanoes. He is also called Mulciber ("softener") in Roman mythology and Sethlans in Etruscan mythology.

hey happy Raksha Bandhan to my hindu brothers

and sisters

maybe uhh thread material though:

The festival is marked by the tying of a rakhi, or holy thread by the sister on the wrist of her brother. The brother in return offers a gift to his sister and vows to look after her. The brother and sister traditionally feed each other sweets.

happy last moments of International Literacy Day!

so that's why there were fireworks here tonite

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haha. are you in mukilteo wa? there were fireworks for lighthouse days there.

googling tells me it might have been for "defenders day"

wtf @ fireworks

i wish someone had defended my coat from the fireworks here. got some blue shit all over it on account of a disintigrating plastic chair.

wtf fireworks indeed.

(also wtf me forgetting how to spell disintegrating. jexux.)

careful people. this is the Day of Conception.

(in Ulyanovsk)

CHILE NATIONAL DAY

happy buy nothing day except i bought some stuff (coffee, vacuum cleaner bags)

(and lolbag of ice)

i bought some drinks does that count?

buy nothing, drink what's left in the cupboard

lol i was too busy to shop today

I'VE BEEN TOO BUSY TOO DRINK!!!

hey E, how did your thanksgiving go?

hey E, how did your christmas go?

i hope everyone is having a good day. love u.

greetings of the season, sandbox.

<3,
lxy

greetings and love from me to all of you<3.

best xmas ever, so far!

i hope lingy's cruise ship didn't get capsized, it's been awfully windy here (just like wellington, actually)

are you going to hang out?

damn straight it's MLKJ DAY and guess where i live hurray!

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my pop was one of the soldiers sent to protect the marchers

The third march

A week after Reeb's death, the federal judge ruled in favour of the SCLC, preventing the state from blocking the marchers, weighing the right of mobility against the right to march:

"The law is clear that the right to petition one's government for the redress of grievances may be exercised in large groups . . . and these rights may be exercised by marching, even along public highways."

Exactly two weeks after Bloody Sunday, about 3,200 marchers set out from Selma to Montgomery, about 50 miles away. They walked about 12 miles (20 km) a day, sleeping in fields at night. By the time they reached the capitol on Thursday, March 25, [1965] their numbers had swollen to 25,000.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Selma-March

i live in Kings county!!!

my workplace does not believe in public holidays.

king county was originally named after a white dude

it was named after a king

martin luther kingbert

hello bengladesh happy Shahid Dibosh (International Mother Language Day)