Calendar of Observances 2024 - Religious Observations National and International Holidays

Saturday 1/27/24 INTERNATIONAL Annual day of commemoration in HOLOCAUST memory of the victims of the Holocaust REMEMBRANCE coinciding with the anniversary of the DAY liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in 1945. [...] 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. [...] Tuesday 7/9/24 MARTYRDOM OF Bahá’í Observance of the anniversary of the THE BÁB * 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. [...] Saturday 11/2/24 BIRTH OF THE Bahá’í Bahá’í observance of the anniversary of BÁB * the birth in 1819 of Siyyid, “the Báb,” the prophet-herald of the Bahá’í Faith, in Shíráz, Persia. [...] 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.