Since 2019, World Braille Day has been celebrated annually on January 4th. In November 2018, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution to honor this yearly observance in acknowledgment that inclusive written materials are essential to achieving full human rights. World Braille Day is celebrated on January 4th in recognition on Louis Braille’s birthday, […]
World Religion Day is celebrated annually on the third Sunday in January by members of the Baha’i faith. This holiday was initiated by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States in 1950 and has been celebrated each year since then. The purpose of this day is “to call attention to the […]
This annual holiday falls on the third Monday in January each year in honor of Dr. King’s birth on January 15th, 1929. The campaign to make this a national holiday began shortly after his assassination in 1968 but was not approved as a national holiday until 1983. It then took 17 more years for it […]
The International Day of Commemoration in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust has been celebrated annually on January 27th since 2006. This observance was initiated by a United Nations General Assembly proclamation in November 2005 to honor the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27th, 1945, by Soviet troops. The […]