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<text id=93AC0392> <title> Holidays:1995 </title> <history> Compact ALMANAC--United States Statistics </history> <article> <source>Time Almanac</source> <hdr> Holidays: 1995 </hdr> <body> <table> <row><cell type=a>CIVIL CALENDAR: UNITED STATES<cell type=a> <row><cell>New Year's Day<cell>Jan. 1 <row><cell>Martin Luther King Day<cell>Jan. 16 <row><cell>Lincoln's Birthday<cell>Feb. 12 <row><cell>Washington's Birthday<cell>Feb. 20 <row><cell>Memorial Day<cell>May 29 <row><cell>Independence Day<cell>July 4 <row><cell>Labor Day<cell>Sep. 4 <row><cell>Columbus Day<cell>Oct. 9 <row><cell>General Election Day<cell>Nov. 7 <row><cell>Veterans Day<cell>Nov. 11 <row><cell>Thanksgiving Day<cell>Nov. 23 <row><cell>RELIGIOUS CALENDARS:<cell> <row><cell>Epiphany<cell>Jan. 6 <row><cell>Ash Wednesday<cell>Mar. 1 <row><cell>Palm Sunday<cell>Apr. 9 <row><cell>Good Friday<cell>Apr. 14 <row><cell>Easter Day<cell>Apr. 16 <row><cell>Ascension Day<cell>May 25 <row><cell>Whit Sunday-Pentecost<cell>June 4 <row><cell>Trinity Sunday<cell>June 11 <row><cell>First Sunday in Advent<cell>Dec. 3 <row><cell>Christmas Day (Mon.)<cell>Dec. 25 <row><cell>First Day of Passover (Pesach)<cell>Apr. 15 <row><cell>Feast of Weeks (Shavuot)<cell>June 4 <row><cell>Jewish New Year (tabular) (Rosh Hashanah)<cell>Sep. 25 <row><cell>Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)<cell>Oct. 4 <row><cell>First day of Tabernacles (Succoth)<cell>Oct. 9 <row><cell>Islamic New Year (tabular)(1)<cell>May 31 <row><cell>First day of Ramadan (tabular)(1)<cell>Feb. 1 <row><cell>CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES & ERAS:(2)<cell> <row><cell>Dominical Letter:<cell>A <row><cell>Epact:<cell>29 <row><cell>Golden Number (Lunar Cycle):<cell>I <row><cell>Julian Period (year of):<cell>6708 <row><cell>Roman Indication:<cell>3 <row><cell>Solar Cycle:<cell>16 </table> <table> <tblhdr><cell>Era<cell>Year<cell>Begins <row><cell type=a>Byzantine<cell type=i>7504<cell type=a>Sep. 14 <row><cell>Jewish (A.M.)*<cell>5756<cell>Sep. 24 <row><cell>Chinese<cell>(4632)<cell>Jan. 31 <row><cell>Roman (A.U.C.)<cell>2748<cell>Jan. 14 <row><cell>Nabonassar<cell>2744<cell>Apr. 25 <row><cell>Islamic (Hegira)*<cell>1416<cell>May 30 <row><cell>Japanese<cell>2655<cell>Jan. 1 <row><cell>Grecian<cell>2307<cell>Sep. 14 <row><cell> (Seleucidea)<cell>2307<cell>(or Oct. 14) <row><cell>Indian (Saka)<cell>1917<cell>Mar. 22 <row><cell>Diocletian<cell>1712<cell>Sep. 11 </table> <list style=hang> <item>1. The Jewish and Islamic dates above are tabular dates, which begin at sunset on the previous evening and end at sunset on the date tabulated. In practice, the dates of Islamic fasts and festivals are determined by an actual sighting of the appropriate new moon. <item>2. All dates are given in terms of the Gregorian calendar in which 1994 January 14 corresponds to 1994 January 1 of the Julian calendar. </list> <p>Source: The Nautical Almanac Office, U.S. Naval Observatory </p> </body> </article> </text>