Spring holiday (beginning)
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Friday March 10, 2023
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Spring holiday (end)
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Tuesday March 21, 2023
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Thomas Jefferson's Birthday
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Thursday April 13, 2023
Secular holiday : In tribute to Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States (1743-1826). He attended The College of William & Mary and then became a prominent farmer. At 26, he commenced his forty-year career as a politician. He wrote the The Declaration of Independence.
Oklahoma Day
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Saturday April 22, 2023
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Mothers' Day
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Sunday May 14, 2023
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howes Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Tuesday May 23, 2023
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Memorial Day
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Monday May 29, 2023
Secular holiday : Observed on the last Monday in May in most of the United States, in honour of the nations armed services personnel killed in wartime and the deceased in general. Created after the Civil War, it is traditionally marked by parades, memorial speeches
Fathers' Day
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Sunday June 18, 2023
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Juneteenth National Freedom Day
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Monday June 19, 2023
Banks only : To remember and honor the freeing, in Galveston, Texas, in 1865, of the last slaves in the United States from 2019 on
Independence Day
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Tuesday July 4, 2023
Secular holiday : Commemorates the formal adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The Fourth is traditionally celebrated publicly with parades and pageants, patriotic speeches, and organized firing of guns and cannons and displays of fireworks.
Summer holiday (end)
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Thursday August 10, 2023
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Senior Citizens Day
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Monday August 21, 2023
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Cherokee National Holiday
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Sunday September 3, 2023
Culture : in Tahlequah
Labor Day
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Monday September 4, 2023
Secular holiday : Celebrated on the first Monday in September with parades. For most Americans, it marks the end of summer holidays, and for many students the beginning of the classes.