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- Blood Donor Month
- National Mentoring Month
- Poverty in American Awareness Month
- Thyroid Awareness Month
- Radon Action Month
- National Hobby Month
- National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
- National Soup Month
- January 1 – NEW YEAR’S DAY – The first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
- January 4 – World Braile day– Celebrating the birth of Louis Braille, the inventor of the reading and writing system for the blind and partially sighted.
- January 6- GURU GOBIND SINGH JI’S BIRTHDAY • Sikh Guru Gobindh Singh was
- the 10th Sikh guru of Nanak and founder of the Khalsa or the community of the pure.
- January 6 – EPIPHANY • Christian Known as Theophany in Eastern Christianity, celebrates the manifestation of Jesus as Christ.
- January 5- CHRISTMAS • Armenian Orthodox Christian Armenian Christians Armenian Orthodox Christian Armenian Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus on Epiphany, except for Armenians living in Israel, who celebrate Christmas on January 19th.
- January 7 – CHRISTMAS • Eastern Christian Orthodox churches celebrate Christmas 13 days later than other Christian churches based on their use of the Julian rather than the Gregorian version of the Western calendar.
- January 14 – MAKAR SANKRANTI • Hindu Seasonal celebration marking turning of
- the sun toward the north.
- January 14 – MAHAYANA NEW YEAR • Buddhist In Mahayana countries the New
- Year starts on the first full moon day in January.
- January 19 – WORLD RELIGION DAY • Bahá’í Observance to proclaim the onenessof religion and the belief that world religion will unify the peoples of the earth.
- January 20 – DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S This day was established to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- January 20 – January 24 – NO NAME-CALLING WEEK Annual week of educational activities aimed at ending name-calling and bullying of all kinds.
- January 27 – INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY – Annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust coinciding with the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in 1945.
- January 29– LUNAR NEW YEAR • Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist –Also known as the Spring Festival, an important festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar . In many cultures every year is also associated with an animal from the Chinese zodiac. This is the year of the snake.
