Talk:National holiday

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A sure fact is that the 4th of May isn't a dutch national holiday. We are only silent on 8 at night for 2 minutes, like the English do on the 11th of november. Other cthan that it's just a normal day like any other day.

The 5th is a bit of a complicated story. It's only a national holiday once everry 5 years. next time when the second world war is 65 years ago. All the other it' s business as usual for most people.

Maybe this should rather be included in Public holiday.

The link there to Google category: Holidays -- Calendars and Lists seems to ultimately lead to http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/. Which is a nice page, but it is not edited. 4th of July occurs half a dozen times.

Sebastian 05:09 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)

Do we need this page as well as one for public holidays? I'd think the contents of both lists would be practically identical. Maybe that page could be widened to include national events and celebrations that aren't actually 'holidays'... I think mothers day and fathers day are both on the list and neither is a calendered holiday - just an excuse for a retail frenzy! KJ


 * A list of national holidays of all the countries can be quite long, so I think we should seperate this article from public holiday, and left a link to this article there. (Just like the current setting) --Lorenzarius 16:10 Feb 3, 2003 (UTC)

Holiday has a list of national holidays. Redirect? --Jiang 19:54, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

What is the article about?
It seems to describe pretty much the same thing as National Day. However, isn't a national holiday simply a public holiday in a country, celebrated for whatever reason? The definition should be cleaned up or, if I'm wrong, the two articles should be merged. -- Ranveig 13:46, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

No more Bongos: Directly from the first sentence of the subheading: "Some nations (in the cultural sense) have their own national holidays". To argue that Galicia, Catalonia or Castile are not nations (in the cultural sense) is just ignorance on your part.


 * If the National Holiday page can be made tabular, so that you can organize by month or country that would be useful. Nikhil 14:41, 15 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree with the previous statement, I much prefer the way that the National holiday section is orgranised in comparison to the National Day section. --Star

My understanding of the difference between a national day and a national holiday is that a national holiday is a public holiday relevant to a nation (often patriotic or military related), such as Armed Forces day, memorial day, presidents day, flag day, unity day, veteren's day. While A national day is a national holiday that is singularly about the countries nationhood. this would commonly be observed on a date when the country came into being or experienced a government revolution. examples Independance day(usa), portugal day, russia day, sami national day, revolution day(egypt), St George's Day(england) so each nation can only have One national day but many national holidays.Some thing 17:54, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

- What is Mike Kup doing on the 31st May ? Markspar 14:59, 2 May 2007 (UTC)