January 2007

	Calendar of Festivals and Special Days 2007
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1 New Years Day Bank Holiday Hogmanay New Years Day parade London Handsel Monday	2 Bank Holiday (Scotland Only) Last day of Hajj (Muslim) Kakizome (Japan)	3 Full Moon Birth of JRR Tolkien, author of Lord of the Rings (1892)	4 Burma's (Myanmar) National Day Louis Braille was born on this day in 1809 Isaac Newton born, 1643	5 Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh (Sikh) Twelfth Night London International Boat Show (until 12th)	6 Epiphany, Three Kings Day (Christian) Twelfth Day Birth of Joan of Arc (1412)	7 Orthodox Christmas (Christian) `
8 Plough Monday Birth of Elvis Presley, singer (1935)	9	10 London Underground began operating in 1863	11 Last Quarter	12	13 St Hilary's Feast Day Russian Winter Festival (London) Michael Bond born, 1926	14 Maghi (Sikh)
15 Martin Luther King Jr born, civil rights activist (1929)	16	17 Robert Scott and his party reached the South Pole in 1912	18 Birth of AA Milne, author (1882)	19 New Moon New Moon (custom)	20 Hijra Islamic New Year 1428 (Muslim) St Agnes' Eve	21 World Religion Day
22 Cancer Talk Week 1901 Queen Victoria died Big Schools' Birdwatch (until 2 Feb)	23 Vasanta Panchami (Hindu)	24 Sir Winston Churchill died on this day in 1965	25 First Quarter Birth of Robert Burns, poet (1759) Burn's Night St Dwynwen's Day	26 RNLI SOS Day The Big Hush India's National Day Australia's National Day - Australia first settled, 1788	27 Big Garden Birdwatch Holocaust Memorial Day	28 Big Garden Birdwatch Homelessness Sunday National Potato Day
29 National Story Telling Week Loud Tie Campaign Week Ashura (Muslim)	30	31 Bug Busting Day Naru's National Day	January Facts, Folklore, Sayings and Anniversaries National Awareness Days

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Handsel Monday (UK) - First Monday in January
Traditionally, the day when a handsel (usually a gift of money) was given to servants by their employers. Boxing Day replaced this tradition.
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Kakizome (Japan) - 2 January
This traditional Japanese festival begins when the first formal calligraphy of the New Year are applied to paper with traditional brushes. It's customary to write phrases that are
Click here to see some examples

Martin Luther King Day - 15 January
Martin Luther King is probably the most famous person associated with peace, this civil rights leader was the youngest person ever to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. He is remembered by many for his famous speech:

"I have a dream
that one day this nation will rise up,
live out the true meaning of this creed:
we hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal......"

Martin Luther King is remembered and honoured with a national holiday on the third Monday of January; his actual birthday falls on January 15.
See a Google video of the speech
Listen to a recording of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech .
I Have a Dream lesson plan

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