January 4 - Holidays and Observances

Holidays and Observances

  • Chōna-hajimeshiki (手斧初式) at Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū. (Kamakura, Japan)
  • Christian Feast Day:
    • Elizabeth Ann Seton
    • January 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Day of the Fallen against the Colonial Repression (Angola)
  • Day of the Martyrs (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  • Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Myanmar from the United Kingdom in 1948.
  • Ogoni Day (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People)
  • The eleventh day of Christmas. (Western Christianity)
  • World Braille Day, starting a week of national tribute to Louis Braille, awareness of the blindness and the Braille writing system

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