USA Holidays and U.S. Popular Days
United States Federal Holidays 2017
New Year's Day is January 1, 2017. Sunday
New Year Federal Employees paid day off: January 2, 2017. Monday.
Martin Luther King Day is January 16, 2017. Monday.
Inauguration Day is January 20, 2017. Friday.
Washington's Birthday (Presidents' Day) is February 20, 2017. Monday
Memorial Day (observed) is May 29, 2017. Monday
Independence Day [July 4th] is July 4, 2017. Tuesday.
Labor Day is September 4, 2017. Monday
Columbus Day (observed) is October 9, 2017. Monday
Veterans' Day is November 11, 2017. Saturday
Thanksgiving is November 23, 2017. Thursday
Christmas is December 25, 2017. Monday
Super Bowl Sunday / Super Bowl LI (51) is February 5, 2017. Super Bowl Sunday is not a holiday but is celebrated like a big one.
When a federal holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, many Federal, State, City, Postal, Bank employees, other workers take an extra day off work. When holiday is on Saturday, they usually get paid not to work on the preceding Friday. When holiday is on Sunday, they usually get paid not to work on the following Monday. click → Office of Personnel Management
Extra Federal Holiday every 4th year: Inauguration Day – next on January 20, 2017. It happens on Jan 20th after the U.S. Presedential Election, held every 4 years. Not a public holiday.
Popular USA Holidays Celebrations Observances
2017
January 1, 2017 (sunday)  New Year's Day   [Jan 1st every year]
January 2, 2017 (monday)  Federal Employees paid day off for New Year.
January 5-8, 2017  CES (Consumer Electronics Show) – tradeshow, in Las Vegas, Nevada.  www.cesweb.org
January 8-22, 2017  North American International Auto Show (Detroit Auto Show). naias.com
January 9, 2017 (monday)  College Football Championship Game. info
January 16, 2017 (monday)  Martin Luther King Day. [3rd monday in Jan]
January 24, 2017 (tuesday)  Gobal Belly Laugh Day. [Jan 24th every year]  www.bellylaughday.com
February 1, 2017 (wednesday)  National Freedom Day. [Feb 1st every year]
February 2, 2017 (thursday)  Groundhog Day. [Feb 2nd every year]
February 5, 2017 (sunday)  Super Bowl Sunday / Super Bowl LI (51) in Houston, Texas.  www.nfl.com/superbowl
February 9, 2017 (thursday)  National Pizza Day. [Feb 9th every year].  info
February 12, 2017 (sunday)  Lincoln's Birthday. [Feb 12th every year]
February 11-20, 2017  Chicago Auto Show.  www.chicagoautoshow.com
February 14, 2017 (tuesday)  St. Valentine's Day . [Feb 14th every year]
February 20, 2017 (monday)  Washington's Birthday (Presidents' Day) (observed). [3rd monday in Feb]
February 28, 2017 (tuesday)  Fat Tuesday / Shrove Tuesday, day before Lent starts.
February 28, 2017 (tuesday)  Mardi Gras Carnival in New Orleans, LA.  www.mardigrasneworleans.com
March 17, 2017 (friday)  St. Patrick's Day – celebrating Irish culture. [March 17th every year]  info
March 25, 2017 (saturday)  Earth Hour – starts 8:30 pm (your local time) [3rd sat in March].  www.earthhour.org
April 1, 2017 (saturday)  April Fool's Day. a day of practical jokes and gags. [April 1st every year]
April 3, 2017 (monday)  Mens College Basketball Tournament Title Game.  tournament    finals
April 6, 2017 (thursday)  National Tartan Day, celebrating Scottish Americans. April 6th every year.  americanscottishfoundation.com
April 13, 2017 (thursday)  Thomas Jefferson's birthday. [April 13 every year]. born April 13, 1743.
April 14, 2017  Good Friday. [the Friday before Easter Sunday] (U.S. stock market is closed).
April 15, 2017 (saturday)  Record Store Day. (music record stores). 3rd Saturday every April.  www.recordstoreday.com
April 16, 2017  Easter Sunday
April 18, 2017 (tuesday)  Tax Day – last day to file federal taxes without penalty. U.S. Debt Per Citizen is now over 60 Thousand Dollars! Debt Per Taxpayer is over 163 Thousand Dollars! U.S. Debt is growing by the second, see → U.S. National Debt Clock
April 22, 2017 (saturday)  Earth Day. [April 22nd every year]  earthday.org
April 26, 2017 (wednesday)  Administrative Professionals Day (Secretary's Day).  info
May 1, 2017 (monday)  Loyalty Day. [May 1st every year].
May 4, 2017 (thursday)  National Day of Prayer. a day for all faiths to pray for our nation and its leaders. [first Thursday in May]
May 5, 2017 (friday)  Cinco de Mayo. a celebration of Mexican culture. May 5th every year.  www.history.com
May 6, 2017 (saturday)  Kentucky Derby horse race.
May 14, 2017 (sunday)  Mother's Day. [2nd sunday in May]
May 15, 2017 (monday)  Peace Officers Memorial Day. [every May 15th] a day in honor of Federal, State, local officers killed or disabled in the line of duty.  research.archives.gov/id/299877
May 20, 2017 (saturday)  Armed Forces Day [3rd saturday in May]
May 22, 2017 (monday)  National Maritime Day [May 22nd every year]
May 29, 2017 (monday)  Memorial Day (observed) [last Monday in May]
June 2, 2017 (friday)  National Doughnut Day. [first Friday in June]
June 15-18, 2017  U.S. Open Golf Championship in Erin, Wisconsin.
June 18, 2017 (sunday)  Father's Day. [3rd sunday in June]
July 4, 2017 (tuesday)  Independence Day USA. [July 4th every year]
Declaration of Independence was adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776.
July 15, 2017 (saturday)  National Ice Cream Day. [July 15 every year] details
July 23, 2017 (sunday)  Parents' Day. [4th Sunday in July]
August 7-13, 2017 (monday-sunday)  Sturgis Motorcycle Rally - 77th Annual - in Sturgis, South Dakota.  www.sturgismotorcyclerally.com
August 19, 2017 (saturday)  National Aviation Day. [Aug 19th every year]
August 19, 2017 (saturday)  Woodward Dream Cruise 2016. World famous car cruise in metro Detroit. This is actually a week's worth of showing classic cars, specialty vehicles, and cruisin. Over one million people attend each year.  woodward_dream_cruise.html
September 4, 2017 (monday)  Labor Day. [first Monday in Sept]
September 10, 2017 (sunday)  National Grandparents Day. [first sunday after Labor Day]
September 11, 2017 (monday)  Patriot Day (a.k.a. 9/11) [September 11th every year] – observance to remember those who were injured or died during the terrorist plane attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and other targets on Sept 11, 2001.
September 16, 2017 (saturday)  Stepfamily Day. [Sept 16th every year]  www.nationalstepfamilydayandweek.com
September 17, 2017 (sunday)  Constitution Day & Citizenship Day. [Sept 17th every year] If on a saturday or sunday, it's observed on work day closest to the 17th.
September 18, 2017 (monday)  Constitution Day & Citizenship Day (Observed)
The United States Constitution signed on September 17, 1787. It was Ratified on March 4, 1789. Read our Constitution: www.constitution.org/cons/constitu.htm
September 22, 2017 (friday)  Native American Day. [4th friday in September] but celebrated, observed many different days.
October 9, 2017 (monday)  Columbus Day (observed). [2nd monday in Oct]
October 16, 2017 (monday)  Boss's Day (observed) (National Bosses Day). [Oct 16th every year]. If on a saturday or sunday, it is observed on the work day closest to the 16th.
October 21, 2017 (saturday)  Sweetest Day. [3rd saturday in Oct]
October 31, 2017 (tuesday)  Halloween (Halloween Day) [Oct 31st every year]
November 11, 2017 (saturday)  Veterans' Day [Nov 11th every year]
November 23, 2017 (thursday)  Thanksgiving Day. [4th thursday in Nov]
November 23-24, 2017  Black Friday Christmas Shopping Frenzy – mostly starts on Thanksgiving and the Friday after Thanksgiving.
December 7, 2017 (thursday)  Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day [Dec 7th every year]. USA attacked in 1941, brought us into WWII.  www.whitehouse.gov/news/
December 12-20, 2017  Hanukkah (Chanukah, Chanukkah)  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah    www.jewfaq.org/holiday7.htm
December 17, 2017 (sunday)  Wright Brothers Day. [Dec 17th every year]
December 25, 2017 (monday)  Christmas [Christmas Day, Dec 25th every year]
December 31, 2017 (sunday)  New Year's Eve. [Dec 31st every year]
U.S. Daylight Savings Time 2017
• STARTS: March 12, 2017 at 2 a.m. (set clocks AHEAD one hour)
• ENDS: November 5, 2017 at 2 a.m. (set clocks BACK one hour)
U.S. daylight savings time future start and end dates...
start: move clocks AHEAD one hour at 2am on second Sunday in March.
end: move clocks BACK one hour at 2am on first Sunday of November.
SEASONS 2017    Spring – Summer – Fall (Autumn) – Winter
March 20, 2017 – Vernal Equinox – beginning of Spring.
June 21, 2017 – June Solstice – beginning of Summer.
September 22, 2017 – Autumnal Equinox – beginning of Fall (Autumn).
December 21, 2017 – December Solstice – beginning of Winter.
More American Patriotic and National Observances
• Washington's Birthday: February 22nd (traditional date, not observed date)
• National Poison Prevention Week: third week in March
• Law Day, U.S.A.: May 1st every year
• Police Week: week which has May 15th in it
• National Flag Week: the week in which June 14th falls
• Honor America Days: June 14th through July 4th
• Constitution Week: September 17th through September 23rd
• Gold Star Mother's Day: last Sunday in September (Sept. 24, 2017)
• Child Health Day: first Monday in October (Oct. 2, 2017)
• Leif Erikson Day: October 9th every year
Several Important Dates in U.S. History
Why We Celebrate July 4th and What Our independence Is Really All About.
Boston Tea Party – December 16, 1773. A protest to the Tea Act (tax imposed on tea by England). England trying to force people in the colonies to pay that tax was a big catalyst to our independence and becoming The United States Of America. The modern day Tea Party (TEA - Taxed Enough Already) is not a political party. They are individuals and organizations who resemble our forefathers who protested that tax by England.  Read about this, see similarities to today.  www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/teaparty.htm
Declaration of Independence – Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776. Read it!  www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
In The Declaration of Independence, it clearly states ...
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.”
The United States Constitution (Constitution of the United States of America), September 17, 1787. Ratified on March 4, 1789. Read the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights!  www.constitution.org/cons/constitu.htm
Here is the Preamble of the Constitution...
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
U.S. Civil War – was from 1861 to 1865. timeline + more details
World War I (World War 1) – July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918. The U.S. Congress officially declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. WWI information and resources
World War II (World War 2, WW2) – 1939 to 1945. The U.S. officially declared war on Japan on December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. WWII timeline details
• College Football Championship Game is January 9, 2017 (Monday night).
• NFL Playoffs (National Football League) in January, 2017.
• Super Bowl LI (51) is February 5, 2017 at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. Kickoff 6:30 pm, FOX TV.  www.nfl.com/superbowl
• Mardi Gras Carnival – February 28, 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana. annual nationally known event for parades and grand outlandish partying.  info site   web cams   Future Dates
• Daytona 500 is February 26, 2017 (Sunday). Nascar race, usually the 3rd or 4th Sunday in February.
• Bike Week in Daytona Beach , Florida. March 10-19, 2017. motorcycles and partying.
• March Madness (NCAA Mens College Basketball Title Tournament) – starts in mid-March, Title Game April 3, 2017.
• NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs (National Hockey League) – annual, starts in April, finals in June.
• NBA Playoffs (National Basketball Association) – annual, starts in April, finals in June.
• Kentucky Derby : May 6, 2017. Horse racing (first Saturday in May).
• Preakness Stakes : May 20, 2017. Horse racing (two weeks after Kentucky Derby).
• Indianapolis 500 : May 28, 2017. (Sunday of Memorial Weekend).
• Belmont Stakes : June 10, 2017. Horse racing (three weeks after the Preakness).