CAPA CALENDAR 2017

CAPA CALENDAR 2017 

JANUARY 

3 - Tuesday - Congress convenes 

16 -Monday - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. 

20 - Friday - Inauguration Day  

30 1835 - First Assassination attempt against an American president fails to kill Andrew Jackson 

FEBRUARY 

12 - Sunday - Lincoln's birthday 

15 1933 - Assassination attempt against President Franklin Roosevelt 

20 - Monday - Presidents Day 

22 - Wednesday - Washington's Birthday 

25 - 1965 - Malcolm X RIP

MARCH 

12 - Sunday - Sunshine Week begins and continues to 18th. 

14 - Tuesday - CAPA Sunshine Week Event at National Press Club Washington DC featuring Judge Tunheim, ARRB Chairman. 

17 - James Madison birthday 

16-17 - Congress State Work Period - not in session

17 - Friday - St. Patrick's Day 

18 - Saturday - Sunshine Week ends Congress lobby effort begins

30 1931 - Cyril Wecht born 

30 1980 - Assassination attempt on President Reagan 

APRIL 

14 - Friday - Good Friday

15 1865 - Lincoln Assassinated 

16 - Sunday - Easter Sunday

26 - Wednesday - Administrative Professionals Day 

MAY 

5 - Friday - Cinco de Mayo

14 - Sunday - Mothers Day 

15 1972 - George Wallace shot 

20 - Saturday - Armed Forces Day

29 - Monday - Memorial Day 

30 1961 - Rafael Trujillo Assassinated - Dominican Republic

JUNE 

10 1963 - JFK Peace Speech at American U., Washington DC

12 1963 - Medgar Evers assassinated - Jackson MS 

14 - Wednesday - Flag Day 

18 - Sunday - Fathers Day

JULY 

4 - Tuesday - Independence Day

20 1944 - Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler

AUGUST 

2 1923 - President Harding RIP 

21 - Eclipse of the sun  

21 1983 - Assassination of Benigno Aquino - Manila, Philippines  

22 1962 - Assassination attempt against Charles de Gaulle 

25 1955 - Emmett Till murdered - Money, MS 

SEPTEMBER

4 - Monday - Labor Day

5 1975 - Assassination attempt against President Gerald Ford

10 - Sunday - Grandparents Day

11 - Monday - Patriots Day 

14 - President William McKinley RIP

18 1961 - UN Secretary Dag Hammersjold RIP

19 1881 - President James A. Garfield RIP 

21 1976 - Orlando Letelier assassinated in Washington DC 

OCTOBER

9 - Monday - Columbus Day

14 1912 - Teddy Roosevelt shot by disgruntled Milwaukee saloon keeper, but delivered speech before seeking medical attention.

16 1909 - Security prevents President Taft from being shot

24 - Tuesday - United Nations Day 

26 - Thursday - Sunset Provision of JFK Act releases records NARA at Archives II - College Park, Maryland

31 - Tuesday - Holloween - David Atlee Philips birthday

NOVEMBER

1 -Wednesday - All Saints Day

4 1995 - Yitzhak Rabin RIP Oslo 

7 - Tuesday - Election Day

11 - Saturday - Veterans Day 

16 - 17 - Thursday - Friday - CAPA Legal Committee Mock Court event - South Texas Law College - Houston, Texas

17 - 18 - Friday - Saturday - November in Dallas - Texas LANCER conference 

22 - Wednesday - Moment of Silence ceremony - Grassy Knoll, Dallas Texas 

23 - Thanksgiving Day 

25 2016 - Fidel Castro RIP

DECEMBER 

7 - Thursday - Pearl Harbor Day 

8 - Friday - John Lennon RIP

24 - Sunday - Christmas Eve

25 - Monday - Christmas Day

30 - Saturday - New Years Eve