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Category: Anniversaries & Historic Events
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This category covers historical events that fall on or near a specific day (or sometimes a month). It may be a birthday, a death day, a patent filing, or an event in the news. .
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Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day (1848)...
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Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day honors the anniversary of the discovery of gold by James Marshall at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, on January 24, 1848.
January
Thesaurus Day (1779): January 18
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Thesaurus Day in the United States celebrates the writer’s resource and invaluable tool of poets, the thesaurus. It occurs on the birthday of its creator in the English language, Peter Mark Roget (January...
January
Thomas Crapper Day (1910): January 27
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Thomas Crapper Day honors Thomas Crapper, an English plumber born in Yorkshire in 1837, who died on January 27, 1910. Crapper is errantly credited with inventing the modern flushing toilet; he did not—b...
January
Tin Can Day (1810): January 19
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Tin Can Day celebrates the invention of the tin can on January 19, 1810, by British merchant Peter Durand. A major game-changer in food preservation, tin cans revolutionized the food industry. The first c...
January
Tom Thumb Day (1838): January 4
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Tom Thumb Day commemorates Charles Sherwood Stratton, a boy from Bridgeport, Connecticut, born January 4, 1838. The son of a carpenter, at the age of four, Charles was only 25 inches tall and weighed a...
January
Typing Day, World (2011): January 8
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World Typing Day, observed on January 8th since 2011, is an annual event dedicated to encouraging people to express themselves via typing and to promote speed, efficiency, and accuracy in written communic...
January
Ukrainian Day (UA)(1918): January 22
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On January 22, 1918, Ukraine proclaimed its independence from Russia. Freedom would last until 1921, when the Soviet Union took control of the country. In 1991 it regained its independence again. Beginnin...
January
Vietnam Conflict Ends (1973): January 27
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Vietnam Peace Day on January 27th commemorates the end of the Vietnam Conflict with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords on January 27, 1973, by representatives of the United States, North Vietnam, Sout...
January
War on Poverty Day (1964): January 8
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It was on this day in 1964 that President Lyndon B Johnson officially declared war on poverty in the United States with these words: "Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope -- some b...
January
Winnie-the-Pooh Day (1882): January 18
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Winnie-the-Pooh Day marks the anniversary of Alan Alexander Milne's birth on January 18, 1882. He first wrote of Christopher Robin (his son and one of the characters in Winnie-the-Pooh) in the poem 'Vespe...
January
Youth Day, Ntl.(IN) (1863): January 12
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First celebrated and declared by the government of India in 1984, National Youth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of Swami Vivekananda on January 12, 1863. Vivekananda was a prolific lecturer and te...
January
9-9-9 Emergency Number Established (1937):...
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July 1, 1937, saw the world's first emergency telephone number deployed in London, covering a 12-mile radius from Oxford Circus. It would be another 31 years before the US would implement a similar system...
January
Apartheid Wall, Month Against the (2004):...
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On July 9, 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion entitled Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Commonly referred to a...
January
Canada Day (CA)(1867): July 1
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Canada Day is Canada's National day. On July 1, 1867, the British North America Act was enacted, creating the country of Canada within the British Empire and empowering it with full self-governing author...
January
Culinary Arts Month, Ntl.(1929): July
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National Culinary Arts Month falls in July, the same month the American Culinary Federation was formed in 1929. Many restaurants and culinary schools throughout the United States use this month to focus o...
January
Hong Kong Autonomy Revoked, (CN)(2020): Ju...
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In 2020, China implemented a new national security law in Hong Kong that effectively revoked the region's autonomy while granting the Chinese government broad powers to crack down on any activity deemed a...
January
Independence Day, (BI) (1962): July 1
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Independence Day in Burundi marks the anniversary of July 1, 1962, the official separation of the nation from Belgium. Independence Day is a national holiday.
January
Independence Day, (RW) (1962): July 1
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Independence Day in Rwanda marks the anniversary of July 1, 1962, the official separation of the nation from Belgium. Independence Day is a national holiday.
January
Independence Day, (SO)(1960): July 1
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A CELEBRATION OF UNITY AND FREEDOM: INDEPENDENCE DAY IN SOMALIA Independence Day in Somalia, a day of profound historical significance, is observed annually on July 1. It marks the pivotal moment in 1960...
January
Liberation Day (SR)(1863): July 1
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Liberation Day in Suriname marks the abolition of slavery on July 1, 1863, in the then Dutch colony. Liberation Day is a national holiday.
January
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