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- Holidays: 1991
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- Civil Calendar: United States
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- New Year's Day Jan. 1 Labor Day Sept. 2
- Martin Luther King Day Jan. 21 Columbus Day Oct. 14
- Lincoln's Birthday Feb. 12 General Election Day Nov. 5
- Washington's Birthday Feb. 18 Veterans Day Nov. 11
- Memorial Day May 27 Thanksgiving Day Nov. 28
- Independence Day July 4
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- Religious Calendars:
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- Epiphany Jan. 6 Ascension Day May 9
- Ash Wednesday Feb. 13 Whit Sunday-Pentecost May 19
- Palm Sunday Mar. 24 Trinity Sunday May 26
- Good Friday Mar. 29 First Sunday in Advent Dec. 1
- Easter Day Mar. 31 Christmas Day (Wed.) Dec. 25
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- First Day of Passover Day of Atonement
- (Pesach) Mar. 30 (Yom Kippur) Sept. 18
- Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) May 19 First day of Tabernacles
- Jewish New Year (tabular) (Succoth) Sept. 23
- (Rosh Hashanah) Sept. 9
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- Islamic New Year July 13 First day of Ramadan Mar. 17
- (tabular) (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: F Julian Period (year of): 6704
- Epact: 14 Roman Indication: 14
- Golden Number (Lunar Cycle): XVI Solar Cycle: 12
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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 Era Year Begins
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- Byzantine 7500 Sept. 14 Japanese 2651 Jan. 1
- Jewish (A.M.)* 5752 Sept. 8 Grecian 2303 Sept. 14
- Chinese (4628) Feb. 15 (Seleucidea) (or Oct. 14)
- Roman (A.U.C.) 2744 Jan. 14 Indian (Saka) 1913 Mar. 22
- Nabonassar 2740 Apr. 26 Diocletian 1708 Sept. 12
- Islamic (Hegira)* 1412 July 12
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- *Year begins at sunset.
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- Source: The Nautical Almanac Office, U.S. Naval Observatory