Holiday Calendar for August 2008
August 1, 2008: National Day (Benin, Switzerland), Parents Day (Democratic Rep. of Congo), Emancipation Day (Trinidad & Tobago)
August 2, 2008: Lady of the Angels Day (Costa Rica); Uprising Day/St.Elijah`s Day (Macedonia)
August 3, 2008: Colonization Martyr's Day (Guinea-Bissau), Independence Day (Nigeria)
August 4, 2008: Emancipation Day (Bahamas), National Day (Burkina Faso), Carnival (Antigua), Liberty Day (Guyana), Children's Day (Tuvala)
August 5, 2008: Independence Day (Burkina Faso), Fiesta de San Salvador (regional) (El Salvador), Homeland Thanksgiving Day (Croatia)
August 6, 2008: Independence Day (Bolivia, Jamaica), Constitution Day (Cook Islands), Hiroshima Peace Ceremony (Shinto)
August 7, 2008: Independence Day (Cote d`Ivoire), Boyaca Battle Day (Colombia)
August 8, 2008: Independence Day (Bhutan), Peace Day (Iraq), Peasant's Day (Tanzania)
August 9, 2008: National Day (Singapore), Women`s Day (South Africa), Tisha B'Av (Jewish), International Day of the World's Indigenous People
August 10, 2008: Independence Day (Ecuador)
August 11, 2008: Independence Day (Chad)
August 12, 2008: International Youth Day (UN)
August 13, 2008: Independence Day (Central African Republic), O-Bon (Japan)
August 14, 2008: Independence Day (Pakistan)
August 15, 2008: Independence Day (India, Republic of Congo. Liechtenstein), Liberation Day (South Korea), Assumption Day (Christian), Lailatul-Bara'at (Eve. after 14 Sha'ban), Ghost Festival (China), Founding of Panama City (Panama), National Mourning Day (Bangladesh)
August 16, 2008: Independence Day (Gabon), Restoration Day (Dominican Republic)
August 17, 2008: National Day (Indonesia), Birthday of Imam Mahdi (Iran)
August 18, 2008: St. Martin's Day (Argentina), Mother's Day (Costa Rica), Restoration Day (Dominican Republic)
August 19, 2008: Independence Day (Afghanistan), Farsi New Year (Tajikistan)
August 20, 2008: Saint Stephen`s Day (Hungary), Children's Day (Nepal), Revolution Day (Western Sahara, Morocco), Independence Day (Senegal)
August 21, 2008: King Muhammad's Birthday (Morocco), Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)
August 22, 2008: National Flag Day (Russia)
August 23, 2008: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (UN)
August 24, 2008: Independence Day (Ukraine), Janamashtami/Krishna Jayanti (Birthday of Krishna) (Hindu), National Flag Day (Liberia)
August 25, 2008: Independence Day (Belarus, Uruguay, Ukraine), Summer Bank Holiday (UK), National Heroes Day (Philippines)
August 26, 2008: Women`s Equality Day (USA), Khordad Sal (Shensai) (Zoroastrian), Heroes Day (Namibia)
August 27, 2008: Independence Day (Moldova)
August 28, 2008: Assumption (Orthodox) (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
August 30, 2008: Constitution Day (Kazakhstan), Victory Day (Turkey), National Day (Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago)
August 31, 2008: Independence Day (Kyrgyzstan, Trinidad & Tobago), Independence Day (Malaysia), Limba Noastra Day (Moldova), Solidarity Day (Poland)