Top 5 Important Holidays During the American Calendar Year

The United States has many important national holidays. These holidays range from days that the early

settlers celebrated to days that different cultures celebrate. Here, we have picked five holidays that we

consider to be the biggest, and we will talk about them in reverse order.

Number Five: Super Bowl Sunday

The fifth most important holiday is Super Bowl Sunday. Super Bowl Sunday is not an actual holiday

in America, but since it falls on a Sunday, it is widely observed. It is the championship game of the

NFL or the National Football League, the major professional football league. The game draws one of

the biggest, if not the biggest, audiences of any TV event each year, and even people who are not

usually football fans will tune in. People will usually throw barbecue parties with a lot of food and

beer and play football in the street during halftime. Since the audience is so big, many companies

make special commercials for the event. These are popular and many people talk about them the next

day at work.

Number Four: New Year's Eve

The fourth most significant holiday is New Year's Eve and not New Year's Day. People like to

celebrate New Year's Eve with parties or at bars with friends and family. There's usually a lot of

drinking involved and games as well. The highlight of the night is the countdown to end the year,

when people gather, usually around the TV, and count down the last ten seconds together. When they

reach zero, they yell out "Happy New Year!" People then will kiss a loved one or a complete stranger

to celebrate the new year. You can see people rush around at the last minute trying to find the right

person to kiss.

Number Three: Independence Day

The third most important holiday is Independence Day, the fourth of July. It's a day to remember

America declaring its independence from Britain. America was a group of British colonies, and after

much frustration over the treatment they were receiving from the King of England, the colonists had

Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. These days it is celebrated

with games, picnics, and barbecues in backyards, at parks, and on beaches. Fireworks are also a main

event on this day, and people gather to watch public firework displays.