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Category: Anniversaries & Historic Events
Events, awareness days, holidays, and promotions related to historical anniversaries.
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. .
Anniversaries Events
Independence Day, (ST )(1975): July 12
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Independence Day in São Tomé and Príncipe marks the anniversary of July 12, 1975, the official declaration of Independence from Portugal. Independence Day is a national holiday.
January
Night of Nights (US-CA)(1999): July 12
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Morse Code formed the standard of international maritime communication for much of the 20th century. Night of Nights celebrates the end of its use in the United States at Point Reyes Station on July 12, 1...
January
Orangemen's Day (UK)(1690): July 12
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In Northern Ireland, July 12 is the Orangemen’s Day. Otherwise known as The Glorious Twelfth, this is a bank holiday celebrated Monday when it falls on a weekend. It commemorates the Battle of Boyne. Publ...
January
Simplicity Day (1817): July 12
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Simplicity Day marks the birthday of Henry David Thoreau, an influential poet, historian, and philosopher, on July 12, 1817. Take a step back from your busy life today, and destress by enjoying simple t...
January
Barbershop Music Day (1945): July 13
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In 1945 Edna Mae Anderson of Tulsa, Oklahoma, invited several women to sing in a group. Their husbands were members of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in...
January
Night Watch (FR) (1789): July 13
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Bastille Day is a big event in France. Night Watch is the night before and it is celebrated with fireworks and festivities.
January
Nitrogen Ice Cream Day (1909): July 13
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Gustav Robert Paalen invented the Double Walled Vessel, a liquid nitrogen technology in tanks. The process allows the ice cream to be creamy and cool consistently. He received his patent on July 13, 1909,...
January
Statehood Day, (ME) (1878): July 13
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On July 13, 1878, the Berlin Congress dubbed Montenegro the twenty-seventh independent state globally. The anniversary is celebrated as Statehood Day or National Day in Montenegro.
January
Tammuz, Fast of (J)(70AD): July 13
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Observed on the 17th day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz (unless it falls on a Saturday), the Fast of Tammuz begins a three-week mourning period marking the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem in 70AD by th...
January
Bastille Day (FR/MF) (1789): July 14
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La Fête Nationale or Bastille Day is National Day in France. It commemorates July 14, 1789, storming of the Bastille, a prison in Paris. Storming the Bastille was one of the first significant acts of ar...
January
Battle of the Boyne Holiday (UK)(1690): Ju...
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Fought on July 1, 1690, the Battle of Boyne was a decisive battle in Irish and English history. King William III, with his English and French Protestant armies, defeated King James’ army of Irish and Fren...
January
Orca Day, World (2002): July 14
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World Orca Day marks the anniversary of the release of Springer, a killer whale that was fostered after his mother was killed, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada July 14, 2002. It is a day...
January
Couch Potato Day (1976): July 15
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Today is the anniversary of the first uttering of the words "couch potato" on July 15, 1976, by Tom Iacino of Pasadena, California. He was referring to his friend, cartoonist Robert Armstrong. According t...
January
Saint Swithin's Day (UK)(971 AD): July 15
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Legend says if rain falls on Saint Swithin's Day, the next 40 days will be wet, and if it does not, the next 40 days will be dry. The tradition began on July 15, 971 AD, a day it rained heavily as the rel...
January
21 to Drink Day (1984): July 17
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Mother's Against Drunk Driving officially lobbied for and passed the national law making the sale and public consumption of alcohol illegal to persons under the age of 21, July 17, 1984. Before this, many...
January
Constitution Day (KR)(1948): July 17
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Constitution Day in South Korea marks the anniversary of July 17, 1948, the official date of the proclamation of the nation's constitution. Constitution Day is a national holiday.
January
Day of Joy (NI)(1979): July 17
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The Day of Joy marks the fall of Managua, Nicaragua, to the Sandinistas on July 17, 1979, and the flight of President Anastasio Somoza Debayle to the United States for asylum.
January
Emoji Day, World (2002): July 17
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Apple launched its first emoji calendar on July 17, 2002. Emojis have become central to our communication and derived from computer shorthand used in the early days of the Internet. Currently, tens of tho...
January
Luis Muñoz Rivera Day (US-PR)(1859): July...
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Luis Muñoz Rivera was a Puerto Rican poet, patriot, and journalist born on July 17, 1859. The island territory celebrates his birth and legacy as a national holiday.
January
Wrong Way Corrigan Day (1938): July 17
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Wrong-Way Corrigan Day celebrates the anniversary of the New York to Dublin flight by Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan. On July 17, 1938, Corrigan tricked the US Government authorities. They insisted he co...
January
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