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NIH Diversity Calendar 2024

Diversity Calendar

  • Poverty in America Awareness Month and Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month

  • 1st New Years Day

  • 4th World Braille Day

  • 6th Armenian Orthodox Christmas

  • 6th Epiphany (Christian)

  • 14th Old/Orthodox New Year

  • 15th Makar Sankranti (Hindu)

  • 15th Martin Luther King Day

  • 16th National Day of Racial Healing

  • 18th Bodhi Day (Buddhist)

  • 21st World Religion Day (Baháʼí)

  • 24th Tu Bishvat/Tu B’Shevat (Jewish) (Jan 24 - Jan 25)

  • 25th Mahayana New Year (Buddhist)

  • 27th International Holocaust Remembrance Day

  • Black History Month

  • 1st National Freedom Day

  • 6th Isra and Mi’raj (Islamic) (Feb 6 - Feb 7)

  • 10th Lunar New Year

  • 10th Tết (Vietnamese)

  • 13th Mardi Gras

  • 14th Ash Wednesday (Christian)

  • 14th Saraswati Puja (Hindu)

  • 15th Nirvana Day (Buddhist)

  • 16th Magha Puja (Buddhist)

  • 19th Presidents Day

  • 20th World Day of Social Justice

  • 24th Makha Bucha Day (Buddhist)

  • 26th Ayyam-I-Ha or Intercalary Days (Baha’i) (Feb 26 - Feb 29)

  • 29th Rare Disease Day

  • 29th Nineteen Day Fast (Baha’i) (Feb 29 - Mar 19)

  • National Women’s History Month, Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, and Irish-American History Month

  • 1st St. David’s Day

  • 1st Employee Appreciation Day

  • 8th International Women’s Day

  • 8th Maha Shivaratri (Hindu)

  • 10th Ramadan (March 10 - April 9)

  • 17th St. Patrick’s Day

  • 18th Clean Monday (Christian)

  • 18th Neurodiversity Celebration Week (March 18 - March 24)

  • 18th Ramadan (March 18 - March 24)

  • 19th Nowruz (Zorastrian)

  • 21st International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

  • 21st World Down Syndrome Day

  • 23rd Purim (Jewish) (Mar 23 - Mar 24)

  • 24th Palm Sunday (Christian)

  • 25th Holi (Hindu)

  • 25th Holla Mohalla (Sikh) (March 25 - March 27)

  • 25th International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

  • 28th Maundy Thursday (Christian)

  • 29th Good Friday (Christian)

  • 31st Cesar Chavez Day

  • 31st Easter (Christian)

  • 31st International Transgender Day of Visibility

  • Arab American Heritage Month, Autism Acceptance Month, Celebrate Diversity Month, and National Deaf History Month

  • 2nd World Autism Awareness Day

  • 6th Laylat al-Qadr (Islamic)

  • 7th World Health Day

  • 10th Eid Al-Fitr (Islamic)

  • 13th Vaisakhi (Sikh)

  • 22nd Passover/Pesach (April 22 - April 30)

  • 21st Festival of Ridvan (Baha’i) (April 21 - May 3)

  • 24th Armenian Martyrs’ Day

  • 24th Theravada New Year (Buddhist)

  • 24th Administrative Professionals Day

  • Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Haitian Heritage Month, Jewish American Heritage Month, Mental Health Awareness Month, Military Appreciation Month, and Older Americans Month

  • 3rd Orthodox Good Friday

  • 5th Cinco de Mayo

  • 5th Orthodox Easter

  • 5th Public Service Recognition Week (May 5- May 11)

  • 5th Yom Hashoah (Jewish) (April 5 - April 6)

  • 10th Military Spouse Appreciation Day

  • 12th Mother’s Day

  • 13th Yom HaAtzmaut (Jewish) (April 13 - April 14)

  • 19th Pentecost (Christian)

  • 21st World Day for Cultural Diversity

  • 22nd Declaration of the Bab (Baha’i) (April 22 - April 23)

  • 23rd Wesak/Buddha Day/Visakha Puja (Buddhist)

  • 25th Lag B’Omer (Jewish) (May 25 - May 26)

  • 27th Ascension of Baha’U’llah (Baha’i) (May 27 - May 28)

  • 27th Memorial Day

  • LGBT Pride Month and Caribbean-American Heritage Month

  • 9th Race Unity Day (Baha’i)

  • 11th Shavuot/Pentecost (Jewish) (June 11 - June 13)

  • 12th Loving Day

  • 12th Anne Frank Day

  • 14th The Hajj (June 14 – June 19)

  • 16th Eid al-Adha (Islamic) (June 16 - June 19)

  • 16th Father's Day

  • 19th Juneteenth

  • 20th World Refugee Day

  • 26th Anniversary of Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage in the U.S.

  • 28th National Pride Day

  • BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month, Disability Pride Month, and French American Heritage Month

  • 4th Independence Day

  • 6th Muharram (Islamic) (July 6 - August 5)

  • 7th Hijri New Year (July 7 - July 8)

  • 9th Martyrdom of the Bab (Baha’i)

  • 14th International Non-Binary People’s Day

  • 16th Ashura (Islamic) (July 16 - July 17)

  • 21st Asala-Dharma (Buddhist)

  • 26th Americans with Disabilities Act Day

  • 28th National Parents' Day

  • 7th Purple Heart Day

  • 9th World Indigenous Peoples’ Day

  • 12th Tisha B’Av (Jewish) (August 12 - August 13)

  • 13th Obon (Buddhist) (August 13 - August 15)

  • 15th Assumption of Mary (Christian)

  • 18th Ullambana (Buddhist)

  • 19th Raksha Bandhan (Hindu)

  • 22nd International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief

  • 23rd International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

  • 26th Krishna Janmashtami/Jayanti (Hindu)

  • 26th Women’s Equality Day

  • 31st International Day for People of African Descent

  • Hispanic Heritage Month and Suicide Prevention Month

  • 2nd Labor Day

  • 8th Suicide Prevention Week (September 8 - September 14)

  • 11th Enkutatash (Ethiopian and Eritrean New Year)

  • 15th National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15)

  • 15th Mawlid Al-Nabi (Islamic-Sunni and Shi’a) (September 15 - September 16)

  • 16th Mexican Independence Day

  • 20th HeForShe Movement Anniversary

  • 21st International Day of Peace

  • 22nd American Business Women's Day

  • 23rd Bi Visibility Day

  • 23rd International Day of Sign Languages

  • 27th Meskel (Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox religious holiday)

  • 27th Native American Day

  • 28th National Public Lands Day

  • Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Filipino American History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, LGBT History Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and Polish American Heritage Month

  • 1st Jerry Rescue Day

  • 3rd Navratri (Hindu) (October 3 – October 12)

  • 2nd Rosh Hashanah Jewish Holiday (October 2 - October 4)

  • 2nd International Day of Non-Violence and Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday

  • 9th Durga Puja (Hindu) (October 9 - October 13)

  • 10th World Mental Health Day

  • 11th Yom Kippur (Jewish) (October 11 - October 12)

  • 11th National Coming Out Day

  • 12th Dussehra (Hindu)

  • 14th Indigenous Peoples Day

  • 15th White Cane Safety Day

  • 16th Sukkot Jewish Holiday (October 16 - October 23)

  • 16th International Pronouns Day

  • 17th Spirit Day

  • 23rd Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah (Jewish) (October 23 – October 25)

  • 26th Intersex Awareness Day

  • 31st Reformation Day

  • 31st Diwali (Hindu)

  • 31st Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) (October 31 – November 2)

  • National Veterans and Military Families Month and National American Indian Heritage Month

  • 1st All Saints’ Day

  • 1st Bandi-Chhor Divas (Sikh)

  • 2nd All Souls’ Day (Christian)

  • 2nd Día de los Muertos

  • 2nd Birth of the Bab (Baha’i)

  • 3rd Birth of Baha’U’llah (Baha’i)

  • 3rd Guru Granth Sahib Gurayai (Sikh)

  • 6th Guru Gobind Singh Jyoti Jot (Sikh)

  • 11th Veterans Day

  • 15th Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s Birthday (Sikh)

  • 16th International Day for Tolerance

  • 17th International ERG(Employee Resource Groups) Day

  • 20th Transgender Day of Remembrance

  • 25th International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

  • 25th Day of the Covenant (Baha’i)

  • 27th Sikh Holy Day (Birth of Guru Granth)

  • 27th Ascension of Abdu’l-Baha (Baha’i)

  • 28th Thanksgiving

  • 29th Native American Heritage Day

  • Universal Human Rights Month

  • 1st World AIDS Day

  • 1st Advent (December 1 -December 24) (Christian)

  • 3rd Giving Tuesday

  • 3rd International Day of Disabled Persons

  • 6th St. Nicholas Day (Christian)

  • 9th Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Christian)

  • 10th International Human Rights Day

  • 12th Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Christian)

  • 15th Bill of Rights Day

  • 16th Las Posadas (December 16 - December 24)

  • 24th Christmas Eve (Christian)

  • 25th Christmas Day (Christian)

  • 25th Hanukkah (Jewish) (December 25 - January 2)

  • 26th Kwanzaa (December 26 - January 1)

  • 29th Wounded Knee Day

  • 31st New Year’s Eve