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.
Web Japan > Kids Web Japan > Explore Japan > Calendar 01 > New Year's Day. Lining up for the first prayers of the year. (Tokyo Metropolitan Government) January 1 is New Year's Day, a national holiday and one of the biggest events on the calendar of annual festivities in Japan. Schools close for about two weeks of winter holiday before and after New Year's, and most companies also shut down for New Year break from around December 30 to January 3.