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  2. June solstice - Wikipedia

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    01:48. 22. 17:37. 21. 14:14. Illumination of Earth by the Sun on the day of the June solstice. The June solstice is the solstice on Earth that occurs annually between 20 and 22 June according to the Gregorian calendar. In the Northern Hemisphere, the June solstice is the summer solstice (the day with the longest period of daylight), while in ...

  3. June 12 - Wikipedia

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    June 12 is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 202 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]

  4. Loving Day - Wikipedia

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    Loving Day is an annual national celebration held on June 12, the anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia which struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in sixteen U.S. states. [1] [2] [3] In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws were U.S. state laws banning interracial marriage, mainly ...

  5. Federal holidays in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Date Official Name Date established Details January 1 (Fixed date) New Year's Day: June 28, 1870 Celebrates the beginning of the Gregorian calendar year. Festivities include counting down to 12:00 midnight on the preceding night, New Year's Eve, often with fireworks displays and parties.

  6. List of date formats by country - Wikipedia

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    All examples use example date 2021-03-31 / 2021 March 31 / 31 March 2021 / March 31, 2021 – except where a single-digit day is illustrated. Basic components of a calendar date for the most common calendar systems: D – day; M – month; Y – year; Specific formats for the basic components: yy – two-digit year, e.g. 24; yyyy – four-digit ...

  7. Summer solstice - Wikipedia

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    In Germanic-speaking cultures, the time around the summer solstice is called ' midsummer '. Traditionally in northern Europe midsummer was reckoned as the night of 23–24 June, with summer beginning on May Day. [5] The summer solstice continues to be seen as the middle of summer in many European cultures, but in some cultures or calendars it ...

  8. Date and time notation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In traditional American usage, dates are written in the month–day–year order (e.g. June 2, 2024) with a comma before and after the year if it is not at the end of a sentence [2] and time in 12-hour notation (5:14 am). International date and time formats typically follow the ISO 8601 format (2024-06-02) for all-numeric dates, [3] write the ...

  9. Feast of the Sacred Heart - Wikipedia

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    The Feast of the Sacred Heart is a feast day in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. According to the General Roman Calendar since 1969, it is formally known as the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Latin: Sollemnitas Sacratissimi Cordis Iesu) and celebrated on the second Friday after Trinity Sunday (see § Date,below.