Happy New Year 2017
New Year's Day, also called simply New Year's or New
Year, is observed on January
1, the first day of the year on the modernGregorian calendar as well as the Julian
calendar. In pre-Christian Rome
under the Julian
calendar, the day was dedicated to Janus, god of gateways and beginnings, for whom January is also named. As a date in the Gregorian
calendar of Christendom, New Year's Day liturgically marked the Feast of the Naming and
Circumcision of Jesus, which is
still observed as such in the Anglican Church andLutheran
Church.[2][3] In present day, with most countries now using
the Gregorian calendar as their de
facto calendar, New
Year's Day is probably the most celebrated public holiday, often observed with fireworks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts in each time zone. Other
global New Years' Day traditions include making New Year's resolutions and calling one's friends and family.
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