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January Holidays:
January 1: New Year’s Day
January 1: Feast Day of St. Basil
January 3: Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus
January 4: World Braille Day
January 5: Guru Gobind Singh Ji’s birthday
January 5: Twelfth Night
January 6: Epiphany or Dia de los Reyes (Three Kings Day)
January 6: Christmas, recognized on this day by Armenian Orthodox Christians
January 7: Christmas, recognized on this day by Eastern Orthodox Christians
January 13: Lori-Maghi
January 14-April 27: Kumbh Mela
January 14: Makar Sankranti
January 17: World Religion Day
January 18-25: The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
January 18: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 19: Timkat
January 26: Republic Day of India
January 27: The International Day of Commemoration to remember the victims of the
Holocaust
January 27 (sundown to sundown): Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 27 (sundown to sundown): Tu B’shevat or or Rosh HaShanah La'Ilanot
January 28: Mahayana New Year
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