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- Holidays: 1992
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- Civil Calendar: United States
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- New Year's Day Jan. 1
- Martin Luther King Day Jan. 20
- Lincoln's Birthday Feb. 12
- Washington's Birthday Feb. 17
- Memorial Day May 25
- Independence Day July 4
- Labor Day Sept. 7
- Columbus Day Oct. 12
- General Election Day Nov. 3
- Veterans Day Nov. 11
- Thanksgiving Day Nov. 26
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- Religious Calendars:
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- Epiphany Jan. 6
- Ash Wednesday Mar. 4
- Palm Sunday Apr. 12
- Good Friday Apr. 17
- Easter Day Apr. 19
- Ascension Day May 28
- Whit Sunday-Pentecost June 7
- Trinity Sunday June 14
- First Sunday in Advent Nov. 29
- Christmas Day (Wed.) Dec. 25
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- First Day of Passover
- (Pesach) Apr. 18
- Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) June 7
- Jewish New Year (tabular)
- (Rosh Hashanah) Sep. 28
- Day of Atonement
- (Yom Kippur) Oct. 7
- First day of Tabernacles
- (Succoth) Oct. 12
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- Islamic New Year July 2
- (tabular)
- First day of Ramadan Mar. 5
- (tabular)
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- [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.]
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- Chronological Cycles & Eras:
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- Dominical Letter: ED
- Epact: 25*
- Golden Number (Lunar Cycle): XVII
- Julian Period (year of): 6705
- Roman Indication: 15
- Solar Cycle: 13
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- * Second Epact 25 to be used as if it were 26.
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- [All dates are given in terms of the Gregorian calendar in which
- 1991 January 14 corresponds to 1991 January 1 of the Julian
- calendar.]
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- Era Year Begins
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- Byzantine 7501 Sep. 14
- Jewish (A.M.)* 5753 Sep. 27
- Chinese (4629) Feb. 4
- Roman (A.U.C.) 2745 Jan. 14
- Nabonassar 2741 Apr. 25
- Islamic (Hegira)* 1413 July 1
- Japanese 2652 Jan. 1
- Grecian 2304 Sep. 14
- (Seleucidea) (or Oct. 14)
- Indian (Saka) 1914 Mar. 21
- Diocletian 1709 Sep. 11
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- *Year begins at sunset.
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- Source: The Nautical Almanac Office, U.S. Naval Observatory
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