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Various Holidays and Festivals

  • April 16th is Emancipation Day in Washington D.C.. It commemorates the day in 1862 that Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act for the District of Columbia.
  • April 16th is also the Feast Day of many Catholic Saints including Benedict Joseph Labre, Drogo, Fructuosus, Paternus, Turibius and Bernadette.
  • In 2006, April 16th was also the date of Mawlid (the birth of Muhammed) in Shi'a Islam.
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