Who else thinks that the U.N. should decree Feb.6 (Bob Marley's birthday) the first international holiday?
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The world's weed supply would collapse, bad idea.
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Thank you for the birthday wish, and song\nMine is the 26th. Talk about being lost in the holiday shuffle. I was 21 before I ever had a birthday cake. Finally had a party at 30. Love the fact that my birthday is spent cleaning up the mess from Christmas ! ! \n\nNephews is the 24th (I try to make his day special) \nGrandson is the 13th (Will make his day special too, this year will be his first birthday)
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Yeah but I think it would be cool to have a new national holiday called NO DRIVING DAY.  One day per year no one could drive a motorized vehicle except for police, fire and ambulance.\nIf you had to get somewhere, you had to walk or ride a bike.  \nIt would give perspective of how good we have it and what politicians/city planners have to deal with.
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Yes. Something very important is going to happen on that date. And I am serious about it AND I could prove it to you, if that were necessary. As a matter of fact, I've known this for a long time, now. But I have never thought it was so important for other people, so I never considered sharing this information. Not until recently, anyway, when so many people started all of a sudden to show their concern about what is awaiting humanity on that date.\n\nSo I think this needs to be said once and for all, so that everybody knows, and the world can decide what to do about it. Ladies and gentlemen, according to irrefutable documents which are in a safe place now, so they are not misplaced, and after a very quick and not very difficult calculation, I have come to the revealing conclusion that on Tuesday 6th. June, 2006, it is going to be my birthday, and I am going to be thirty-five years old.
502509
Cinco de Mayo in the States!  In Hong Kong, it was a Bank holiday and I got the link for you!  Well, I guess that you already knew by now!
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it is august 8th.\nJean-Pierre Ady Fenyo
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13th November 1945\n\nhttp://www.un.org/Overview/unmember.html
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I Think you have the date wrong sorry hun but on 6-6-06 We are not because thats not the same as 666 dont feel bad because you put january everyone makes mistakes its ok but I heard the world mite end in like 2020 but mostly thats problary just made up or a lie good luck
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The United States is a diverse country, and as a result Americans celebrate many different holidays. Many holidays and observances recognized as national, or federal, holidays. On these days, most schools, businesses, and many shops are closed. \n\nFederal holidays include: Holiday Date \nNew Year's Day  January 1  \nMartin Luther King Day  Third Monday in January  \nInauguration Day  Every four years on January 20  \nWashington's Birthday (Presidents' Day)  Third Monday in February  \nMemorial Day Last Monday in May \nIndependence Day (Fourth of July)  July 4  \nLabor Day  First Monday in September  \nColumbus Day  Second Monday in October  \nVeterans Day  November 11  \nThanksgiving Day  Fourth Thursday in November  \nChristmas Day December 25 \n\nAmericans also celebrate several other holidays or observances that are not recognized as national holidays. On these days, schools, businesses, and shops remain open.\n\nMost of these holidays fall into a group of non-religious observances. This group includes:\n\n? Groundhog Day (February 2)\nThe day when the groundhog comes out of his hole after a long winter sleep to look for his shadow. If he sees it, he regards it as an omen of six more weeks of bad weather and returns to his hole. If the day is cloudy and, hence, shadowless, he takes it as a sign of spring and stays above ground.\n\n? Valentine?s Day (February 14)\nThe day when Americans show friends and loved ones that they care. Candy and roses "the flower of love" are exchanged as are ?valentines,? greeting cards named after the notes that St. Valentine received in jail. Valentines can be sentimental, romantic, and heartfelt or funny and friendly.\n\n? St. Patrick?s Day (March 17)\nAn Irish holiday brought to the United States by immigrants in the 18th century. Festivities to mark the holiday of Ireland?s patron saint include everything from parades to the ?wearing of the green? to the serving of green beer. If someone doesn't wear green on St. Patrick's Day, they might get pinched.\n\n? April Fool?s Day (April 1)\nAmericans play small tricks or practical jokes on friends and strangers alike on the first of April, a tradition dating back to 16th-century France. Whatever the trick if the innocent victim falls for the joke, the prankster yells, ?April Fool!? The most clever April Fool?s joke is the one where everyone laughs, especially the person upon whom the joke is played. \n\n? Earth Day (April 22)\nThe day when Americans say ?thank you? to Mother Nature and do their part to help conserve, protect and celebrate the environment. Typical observances include recycling projects, fundraising concerts, and litter cleanup efforts. \n\n? Mother?s Day (second Sunday in May)\nThe day of the year when children, young and old, try to show in a tangible way how much they appreciate their mothers. American children of all ages treat their mothers to something special, such as breakfast in bed, handmade gifts, or flowers. \n\n? Father?s Day (third Sunday in June)\nOn this day, fathers all across the United States are given presents, treated to dinner, or otherwise made to feel special. \n\n? Halloween (October 31) \nThe day when American children dress in costumes and knock on their neighbors' doors and yell, "Trick or Treat" when the door opens. The holiday is not just for kids. Americans young and old join in the Halloween festivities by carving jack-o'-lantern pumpkins, attending parties, playing games, and telling scary stories. \n\n? Kwanzaa (December 26-31)\nAn American holiday based on the African celebration of the first harvest of the year. Founded upon the Nguzo Saba, or the seven principles of unity -- self- determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith. Kwanzaa encourages African Americans to think about their African roots in addition to their present-day life in America. \n\n \nHa Ha I cheated ;))
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MLK Day.  Why would we name a holiday after Jefferson Davis, the president of a country that no longer exists?
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Duh... 1st of Ramadhan. On a gregorian calendar this year, it's on September 25th.
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I think it's June 6th, 2006.  Nothing more.  Kinda like Jan. 1, 2000 was.  Our dates and any number associated with them are pretty much arbitrary.
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YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!!\nIt is not a pagan holiday and non-believers have NO RIGHT to celebrate or to try and change this Holiday to suit there needs, for it is 'OUR' (Christians) religious Holiday after all.\n\np.s. James P.  All of the founding fathers were Christians.  Furthermore; the observation of a Federal Holiday has nothing to do with govt and laws but merely that the majority of the public (claim to be Christian) want the Holidays to be observed.  (hence when it is deemed a Federal Holiday, people are not forced to work on those particular days. i.e. Martin Luther King Day, Easter, July 4th, Kwanzaa, Good Friday, etc.  they are preserved for a myriad of faiths and observances! So, they should not be changed for any reason.  I just find it ironic that so many faiths outside of the Christian faith celebrate this Holiday.  You will not find a 'true' Christian that observes another faiths holiday!
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wow, what a good question, I hope people with interesting racial ideas about colonisation and the genocide of the native people go into more detail than I I have time for right now.\n\nwhy the holiday ... its a part of the story the country tells itself, to define itself.  every country has a "once upon a time, there was ...this place... and then some people came and did amazing things... and that's why we exist!" whatever, and down through the centuries, certain people who were real at some point get mythologized, like columbus and davy crockett.  these figures are always white european males, but that's how it goes.  \n\nbut its changing - we already have martin luther king day, so I have hope for a better story for the future...
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January 8 birthdays:\n\n1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623) \n1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643) \n1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658) \n1628 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. (1695) \n1632 - Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694) \n1635 - Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo (d. 1709) \n1735 - John Carroll (priest), first American Catholic archbishop (d. 1815) \n1763 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States (d. 1834) \n1786 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (d. 1844) \n1788 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874) \n1792 - Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872) \n1805 - John Bigler, Governor of California (d. 1871) \n1805 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878) \n1817 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893) \n1821 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904) \n1821 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general {d. 1862) \n1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913) \n1824 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861) \n1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889) \n1836 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist (d. 1912) \n1843 - Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929) \n1852 - James Milton Carroll, was a Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (d. 1931) \n1860 - Emma Booth, the fourth child of Willliam and Catherine Booth (d. 1903) \n1867 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1961) \n1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (d. 1930) \n1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1940) \n1873 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953) \n1881 - Henrik Shipstead, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (d. 1960) \n1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, U.S. Secretary of War (d. 1963) \n1885 - John Curtin, fourteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1945) \n1885 - A. J. Muste, Dutch-born civil rights activist and pacifist (d. 1967) \n1888 - Matthew Moore, Irish actor (d. 1960) \n1891 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957) \n1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972) \n1896 - Arthur Ford, American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient {d. 1971) \n1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977) \n1902 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (1883) \n1903 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960) \n1904 - Karl Brandt, Nazi war ciminal (d. 1948) \n1905 - Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981) \n1908 - William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975) \n1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999) \n1909 - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995) \n1910 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian ballerina (d. 1988) \n1912 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992) \n1923 - Larry Storch, American actor \n1923 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985) \n1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist \n1924 - Ron Moody, English actor \n1926 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano \n1926 - Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer \n1926 - Soupy Sales, American comedian \n1931 - Bill Graham, German music promoter (d. 1991) \n1933 - Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator \n1934 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987) \n1934 - Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988) \n1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004) \n1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977) \n1937 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer \n1937 - John Hume, Irish politician \n1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host \n1941 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989) \n1941 - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator \n1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author \n1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan \n1942 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress \n1944 - Ter
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I'm working today, just as I have every day of the week for the last 3 1/2 months.\nI do not think Good Friday should be declared a holiday (no pun intended).  The USA is basically a secular nation, as it should be.  Look around the world and see what kind of life people lead in theocracies like Saudi Arabia and Iran, and even in places like the Philippines where the church greatly influences government policy.\nPeople like James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, though they were Christians and deists, recognized the importance of separating church and state; Jefferson created the concept for us.  They would blanch at the thought of making religious festivities into official holidays.\nThe last time religion played a major role in the politics of the West, it was known as the "Dark Ages."
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Exactly. It is the sabbath day for the earth. We are currently at the END of the 6th day of the earth (6,000 years).