1941 Holidays and Events in Melbourne, Australia

Additional Information	Date	Name
	1/1/1941, Wed	New Year's Day
Note An official national public holiday.
	1/27/1941, Mon	Chinese New Year Festival
Note Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year) is one of Melbourne’s largest and most highly anticipated multicultural events. The celebrations span multiple weeks and draw hundreds of thousands of attendees to the heart of the city and surrounding suburbs with large Asian communities. This festival takes place from Chinese New Year's Eve (the evening preceding the first day of the Chinese year) to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the Chinese year. The first day of the Chinese New Year falls on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February.
	1/27/1941, Mon	Australia Day: Actual Observance Day
Note An official national public holiday. If this occurs on a Sunday, the observance is moved to the following Monday.
	3/7/1941, Fri	Moomba Waterfest Festival
Note The Moomba Festival (officially named Melbourne Moomba Waterfest) is Australia’s largest free community festival, held annually over four or five days during the Labour Day long weekend, beginning on the first Friday and ending on the second Monday in March, along the banks of the Yarra River in Birrarung Marr and Alexandra Gardens, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomba_Festival
	4/11/1941, Fri	Good Friday
Note An official national public holiday.
	4/13/1941, Sun	ANZAC Day
Note An official national holiday.
	4/13/1941, Sun	Easter
Note Not an official national public holiday. A Christian religious observance.
	4/14/1941, Mon	Easter Monday
Note An official national public holiday.
	6/9/1941, Mon	King's Birthday
Note An official national holiday, but observance dates vary by province.
	11/4/1941, Tue	Melbourne Cup Day
Note A major sporting event. A public holiday across most of Victoria. It is mostly observed annually on the first Tuesday of November, but some regional areas in Victoria observe this holiday on a different date.
	12/25/1941, Thu	Christmas Day
Note An official national public holiday.
	12/26/1941, Fri	Boxing Day
Note An official national holiday. If this holiday occurs on Sunday, the following Tuesday is also an observance day.

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