January 2007
Capricorn/Aquarius
Prune-the-Fat Month
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
31
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2
3
4
5
6
Islamic Eid al-Adha [Festival of Sacrifice] begins [ends 01-02-07]
New Year’s Day
(U.S. Federal holiday)
Kwanzaa ends (began December 26, 2006)
Shinto/Japanese New Year [Gatan-Sai]
Islamic Wid al-Adha [Festival of Sacrifice] ends [began 12-31-06]
Alaska becomes 49th state [1959]
Buddhist New Year [Mahayana tradition]
Full Moon
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hospitalized for stroke [2006]
Venus enters Aquarius
Pat Robertson says “dividing god’s land” caused Ariel Sharon’s stroke [2006]
Sikh Guru Gobindh Singh birthday
Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant Epiphany
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Eastern Orthodox Nativity of Jesus Christ [Christmas]
Japanese Seijin-no-hi
[Coming-of-Age Day]
Save the Eagles Day
Amelia Earhart Day
Sikh Maghi
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Army’s Charles Graner guilty of Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse [2005]
Martin Luther King, Jr., birthday, observed
(U.S. Federal holiday)
Mercury enters Aquarius
Mars enters Capricorn
Ben Franklin’s birthday;
Gulf War begins [1991]
New Moon
Condoleezza Rice becomes Secretary of State [2005]
Islamic New Year
[A.H. 1428]
Sun enters Aquarius
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
World Religion Day
Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision [1973]
Twenty-Fourth Amendment [1964] bans poll tax [voting obstacle] in federal elections
Hindu Vasant Panchami
Australia Day
28
29
30
31
1
2
3
official Vietnam ceasefire [1973];
Space Shuttle ‘Challenger’ explodes [1986]: 7 astronauts killed
Venus enters Pisces
Ghandi assassinated [1948];
Iraq’s first election in over 50 years [2005]
death of Coretta Scott King [2006], widow of Martin Luther King, Jr.
