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Commonwealth Day in the Northern Mariana Islands

Commonwealth Day in the Northern Mariana Islands is held on January 8. Commemorates association with the United States. This event in the first decade of the month January is annual. Help us Help us 
8 January - Commonwealth Day in the Northern Mariana Islands
Commonwealth Day is celebrated on 8 January, and holidays celebrated by other groups, such as the Fourth of July, are gala occasions for everyone.
Located just north of Guam in the western Pacific, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is a three-hundred mile archipelago consisting of 14 islands. The United States Department of the Interior cites a landmass of 183.5 square miles (475.26 km2). The principal inhabited islands are Saipan, Guguan, Rota and Tinian.
Often referred to as “America's Best Kept Secret,” the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is a U.S. territory. The islands' capture was of vital strategic importance as it enabled bombers to be positioned within range of mainland Japan and facilitated the strategic bombing campaign which many believed was necessary to force Japan to surrender.
The people of the Northern Mariana Islands decided in the 1970s not to seek independence, but instead to forge closer links with the United States. Negotiations for commonwealth status began in 1972 and a covenant to establish a commonwealth in political union with the United States was approved in a 1975 referendum:  A new government and constitution partially came into effect in on January 9, 1978.

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