Other Holidays Locally Observed
- Bunker Hill Day (Suffolk County, Massachusetts), June 17
- Brooklyn-Queens Day (New York City, NY), first Thursday in June
- Casimir Pulaski Day (Illinois), first Monday in March
- Chinese New Year, date fluctuates between late January and February. Celebrated by Chinese Americans and throughout Chinatowns nationwide.
- Day of the Dead, November 2, sometimes celebrated in areas with large Mexican-American populations; see Dia de los Muertos
- DC Emancipation Day (Washington, D.C.), April 16. Legal public holiday. If during the weekend, observed on the nearest weekday. If April 16 falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, it will nationally extend the federal income tax filing deadline.
- Devil's Night (primarily Michigan), October 30
- Dyngus Day (New York, Indiana, Michigan and North Dakota), day after Easter, Polish-origin holiday
- Evacuation Day (Suffolk County and Cambridge, Massachusetts), March 17 (same date as St. Patrick's Day)
- Father Damien Day (Hawaii), April 15
- Indigenous Peoples Day (Berkeley, California), celebrated in lieu of Columbus Day
- International Women's Day (Berkeley, California), March 8
- Loyalty Day (domestic counterweight to May Day)
- Malcolm X Day (Berkeley, California), May 19
- Mardi Gras, held the day before Ash Wednesday.
- Florida, legal holiday in counties where carnival associations are organized for the purpose of celebrating the same.
- Louisiana, legal holiday
- Alabama, legal holiday only in Baldwin and Mobile Counties
- Meck-Dec Day (Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina), May 20. Celebrates the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
- Midsummer (celebrated in Minnesota and other Scandinavian-American areas)
- Patriots' Day (Massachusetts and Maine), third Monday in April. Commemorates the Revolutionary War and is the day of the Boston Marathon. Different than Patriot Day (September 11).
- Pioneer Day (Utah), July 24. Commemorates the arrival of the Mormon Pioneers to the Great Salt Lake Valley.
- Return Day (Sussex County, Delaware), November 4 after noon. Population meets to hear election returns, celebrate.
- Rosa Parks Day (California and Ohio), February 4
- Susan B. Anthony Day (Florida, Wisconsin, and West Virginia), February 15
- Sweetest Day (Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin), third Saturday in October. Involves giving small presents to family, friends and lovers
- Texas Independence Day (Texas)
- Truman Day (Missouri)
- Von Steuben Day, (mid-September, celebrated primarily by German Americans)
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