What’s up With “US Holiday” calendar?

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What’s up With “US Holiday” calendar?

I’m wondering, as are sooo many others, what the heck is up with the “US Holidays” calendar? Did Apple mistakenly name this calendar? If so, where can we find the official US Holiday calendar? Or at least how can we delete the NON-US holidays?

This is the list of US Fedral Holidays that all US citizens have grown up with and would like to have on our US Calendars:

2018 Federal Holidays

Date	Holiday
Monday, January 1	New Year’s Day
Monday, January 15	Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 19	Washington’s Birthday (Presidents Day)
Monday, May 28	Memorial Day
Wednesday, July 4	Independence Day
Monday, September 3	Labor Day
Monday, October 8	Columbus Day
Monday, November 12	Veterans Day
Thursday, November 22	Thanksgiving Day
Tuesday, December 25	Christmas Day

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Posted on Jul 31, 2018 9:34 AM

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Jul 31, 2018 9:42 AM in response to Mari’dlike2know

You're a bit late to this. 🙂 There were long topics about this 6 months ago.

It appears Apple's late February response to the outcry at the removal of religious holidays (which only represented Christian events) from the calendar was a complete remake to create a cultural calendar representative of modern USA ethnic and religious diversity. This has admittedly resulted in a busy calendar and you can make or subscribe to a different calendar that only has what you want.

About holiday calendars on iOS and macOS - https://support.apple.com/HT208541 - "Learn how to display holiday calendars in the Calendar app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac."

Use iCloud calendar subscriptions - Apple Support - https://support.apple.com/HT202361

How to add calendar events to your Calendar application for OS X/Mac OS and iOS - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-12741

Feb 2018 post by Michael Black - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8293223?answerId=33068171022#33068171022 - "technically the US Federal Government Holidays are not national holidays since Congress only has powers to create holidays for federal institutions. So strictly speaking, the USA has no legally recognized national holidays." If you're interested in more along those lines https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8293916?start=90&tstart=0 and https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8296222?answerId=33080568022#33080568022 and https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8296222?answerId=33081933022#33081933022

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