March 9 Holidays and Observances

U.S. Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day is on March 9 every year. Holidays set by a weekday rule, by Easter, by the Hebrew calendar or by the Sun land on March 9 in these years:

• Previous federal holiday: Washington's Birthday (Presidents' Day), Monday, February 15, 2027, 22 days before.
• Next federal holiday: Memorial Day, Monday, May 31, 2027, 83 days after.
• Previous other holiday or observance: Valentine's Day, Sunday, February 14, 2027, 23 days before.
• Next other holiday or observance: Daylight saving time begins, Sunday, March 14, 2027, 5 days after.

For the whole year, the US federal holidays tool lists all 11 with their observed days, and the printable calendar marks them on every month.

DateMath lists only days whose date comes from a rule or a public source it names. It works out every rule for the year you pick: the 11 federal holidays of 5 U.S.C. 6103 with their observed days, a selection of the observances Congress set in Title 36 of the US Code, such as Flag Day and Armed Forces Day, and the ones kept on a fixed date by custom, Easter by the Gregorian computus, the Jewish holidays from the Hebrew calendar in your browser, and the equinoxes and solstices from the US Naval Observatory's table, dated on the US Eastern clock. The UN international days come from the UN's own list. "National days" for foods and causes from private calendars are left out.

• US federal holidays. DateMath skips the 11 annual holidays of 5 U.S.C. 6103 on the days they are observed for federal employees, as the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) lists them: a Saturday holiday on the Friday before, a Sunday holiday on the Monday after. Source: 5 U.S.C. 6103, OPM federal holidays.
• US observances set by law. DateMath dates a selection of the national observances Congress has designated in Title 36 of the US Code, such as Flag Day, Mother's Day and Patriot Day, by the rule each one's section gives, Election Day by 2 U.S.C. 7, Tax Day by 26 U.S.C. 7503 (April 15, moved past a weekend or a Washington, D.C. holiday) and the daylight saving time changes by 15 U.S.C. 260a. These are days of note, not days off. Source: 36 U.S.C. chapter 1, 26 U.S.C. 7503.
• The date of Easter. DateMath computes Easter Sunday with the Gregorian computus, the church's tables in arithmetic form: the first Sunday after the church's full moon on or after March 21, so between March 22 and April 25. Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday and Good Friday are counted from it, and Orthodox Easter uses the same rule in the Julian calendar. Source: Date of Easter.
• The Hebrew calendar. DateMath reads Hebrew dates from the Hebrew calendar data built into your browser (the Unicode CLDR and ICU data every major browser ships). The Hebrew year has 12 months, or 13 in 7 of every 19 years, when Adar I is added before Adar II, and its day starts at sunset. A bar mitzvah is at 13; a bat mitzvah is at 12 in Orthodox communities and often at 13 in others. Source: Hebrew calendar, Bar and bat mitzvah.
• Equinoxes and solstices. DateMath takes the moment of each equinox and solstice from the US Naval Observatory's table, in UTC to the minute, and dates it on the US Eastern clock. Near midnight the date differs between time zones. Source: USNO Earth's Seasons.
• UN international days. DateMath lists the international days with a fixed date as the United Nations' own list gives them; days the UN moves from year to year, such as World Habitat Day, are left out. They mark a cause, not a day off. Source: UN list of international days.

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