Disable list of holidays in Jquery date picker

Question

How to disable a list of holidays using jquery date picker?

Answer 1

    var disabledDates = ['08/30/2010', '05/30/2010', '02/14/2011']; 

            function noWeekendsOrHolidays(date) 
            { 
                    var noWeekend = $.datepicker.noWeekends(date); 
                    if (noWeekend[0]) 
                    { 
                        return disableDays(date); 
                    } 
                    else 
                    { 
                        return noWeekend; 
                    } 
            } 

            function disableDays(date) 
            { 
                for (var i = 0; i < disabledDates.length; i++) 
                { 
                    if (new Date(disabledDates[i]).toString() == date.toString()) 
                    {              
                        return [false]; 
                    } 
                } 
                return [true]; 
            }  

$(.selector).datepicker({minDate: new Date(),beforeShowDay: noWeekendsOrHolidays, changeYear: true ,changeMonth: true});