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New Zealand. In New Zealand, Good Friday is a legal holiday [ 121 ] and is a day of mandatory school closure for all New Zealand state and integrated schools. [ 122 ] Good Friday is also a restricted trading day in New Zealand, which means that unexempted shops are not permitted to open on this day. [ 123 ]
No official National Day. Fatherland Day is the unofficial Basque national holiday, associated with Basque nationalism. From 2011 to 2013 the official national day was on 25 October. Belarus: 3 July Independence Day: It commemorates the liberation of Minsk from German occupation by Soviet troops in 1944. Belgium: 21 July National Day
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States. For decades, activists and congress members (led by many African Americans) proposed legislation, advocated for, and built support for state and national observances. During his campaign for president in June 2020, Joe Biden publicly celebrated the holiday. [125]
Every year, the Ministry of Religious Affairs set the specific date of religious holiday based on input from religious leaders. [141] The Chinese New Year is the only national religious holiday in Indonesia that was enacted specifically with the Presidential Decree, in this case with the Presidential Decree No. 19 of 2002 dated on 9 April 2002.
North Korea. Mother's Day is celebrated on 16 November as a public holiday in North Korea. The date takes its significance from the First National Meeting of Mothers held in 1961, for which Kim Il Sung, the leader of the country, published a work called The Duty of Mothers in the Education of Children.
On 22 February 2016, the Turnbull government announced several proposed changes. [83] In the Senate, the changes had the support of the Liberal/National Coalition, the Australian Greens, and Nick Xenophon. [84] The legislation passed both houses of the Parliament of Australia on 18 March 2016 after the Senate sat all night debating the bill. [85]
The Indonesian government designated 16 national holidays and 5 religious holidays in 2018. Indonesia also suffered major incidents and major natural disasters throughout the year. A string of terrorist attacks occurred throughout Indonesia on May, with the most serious incident occurred in Surabaya from 13 to 14 May. In terms of natural ...
The first NBA game played on December 25 came in 1947, a year after the NBA's inception, when the New York Knicks beat the Providence Steamrollers at Madison Square Garden 89–75. [1] Since then, the NBA has played games every year on Christmas Day except in 1998 (when a lockout canceled half the 1998–99 season ).