May 26 Holidays

Eid al-Adha is the Feast of Sacrifice, the second of the two major Islamic holidays, commemorating Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son as commanded by God — observed with communal prayers, the sacrifice of livestock, and the distribution of meat to family, neighbors, and the poor. World Red Head Day was created to celebrate red hair, carried by the MC1R gene variant — a recessive trait shared by approximately 1 to 2 percent of the global population and most common among people of Northwestern European descent. National Sorry Day is an Australian observance on May 26 — the anniversary of the 1997 Bringing Them Home report on the Stolen Generations — reflecting on the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. Sally Ride Day marks the May 26, 1951 birthday of Sally Ride, the physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space on June 18, 1983. Devotion, a recessive gene, a national apology, and a launch window.