Obama: Last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests â- including foreign corporations â- to spend without limit in our elections. Obama: And we havenât raised income taxes by a single dime on a single person. Not a single dime.
New Year's Day 2017 has already passed: it was on Sunday, January 1, 2017 (104 days ago). 2017 Calendar. New Year fireworks over Copenhagen. New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar used in ancient Rome.
New Year's Day falls on Jan.1, and people can have one day off. Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year's Day, falls on the eve of the Lunar New Year, and people can have three days off. The stretch of holidays is longer if weekends before and after are included. Tomb-Sweeping Day falls on April 5 or 6, and people can have one day off.