Calendar of Observances 2023 - Religious Observations National and International Holidays

January 27 INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY Annual day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust coinciding with the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in 1945. [...] May 29 ASCENSION OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH • Bahá’í Observance of the anniversary of the death in exile of Bahá’u’lláh, the prophet-founder of the Bahá’í Faith. [...] The length of time between sunrise and sunset is the longest of the year with the sun shining the farthest from the Southern Hemisphere and the closest to the Northern Hemisphere. [...] July 10 MARTYRDOM OF THE BÁB • Bahá’í Observance of the anniversary of the execution by a firing squad in Tabríz, Persia, of the 30- year-old Siyyid ‘Alí-Muhammad, the Báb, the prophet-herald of the Bahá’í Faith. [...] The length of time between sunrise and sunset is the shortest of the year with the sun shining closest to the Southern Hemisphere and the farthest from the Northern Hemisphere.