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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
Evacuation Day, American (LY)(1970): June...
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Evacuation Day commemorates June 11, 1970, when American troops evacuated from Libyan soil and its ports. There are several evacuation days in Libya marking various departures, including March 28, 1970, B...
January
Father's Day, Intl. (1910): June 15
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"Every day, fathers across our the world give everything they have to build a better future for their family, asking nothing in return but their children's love. Parenthood is the ultimate gift and an inc...
January
Federal-Aid Interstate Highway Act (1956):...
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Today is the anniversary of the passage of the Federal-Aid Interstate Highway Act in 1956. The story of how the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (also known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways...
January
Firearms Day, Ntl. (1934): June 26
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The National Firearms Act (NFA), or Title II of the Federal Firearms Laws enacted on June 26, 1934, imposes a statutory excise tax on the manufacture and transfer of certain firearms and mandates the regi...
January
Fish and Chips Day, Ntl. (UK)(1944): June...
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Not to be confused with Friday Fish Fry Day (a different sponsor), National Fish & Chip Day first ran in 2015. For 2024 and 2025 it falls on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Fish and Chips played a big part in kee...
January
Flag Day (1777): June 14
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Flag Day was created in 1886 by Bernard Cigrand, a school teacher in Wisconsin. He decided to hold a Flag Birthday Party on June 14, the Stars and Stripes US flag creation anniversary in 1777. Cigrand con...
January
Flag Day (AR)(1820): June 20
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Manuel Belgrano designed Argentina's flag as one of the Argentinian Republic's founding fathers. He commanded revolutionary forces and worked as a diplomat until his death on June 20, 1820. Argentina cele...
January
Flag Day (FI)(1867): June 4
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Often the 'happiest place to live on earth' and home of the Northern Lights, reindeer, and gorgeous scenery, Scandinavia's Finland honors the birth of its sixth president, Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, on June...
January
Flamingo Day, Pink (1957): June 23
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Pink Flamingo Day honors the 1957 pink flamingo lawn décor creator Don Featherstone. It occurs on the day after his death in 2015. This event was declared a holiday by the former mayor of Leominster, Mas...
January
Garfield the Cat Day, Intl. (1978): June 1...
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June 19th, 1978, Garfield the Cat came to life, thanks to his creator Jim Davis. The Garfield comic strip holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for the most syndicated comic strip, appearing in o...
January
Gay and Lesbian (LGBTQ+) Pride Month (1969...
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LGBTQ+ Pride Month commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Riots in Manhattan, New York. This month, throughout the United States, pride parades, workshops, symposiums, and concerts focus on the LGBT experience....
January
Germany Invades Russia (1941): June 22
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The invasion of Russia by the Axis powers on June 22, 1941, opened up a two-front war. Code named Operation Barbarossa aimed to eliminate the Communist threat, and it became Hitler’s first land defeat.
January
Great Get Together, The (UK)(1974): June 2...
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This community-building initiative marks the anniversary of British parliament member Jo Cox's birthday (Born June 22, 1974). Cox was murdered on June 16, 2016, and strongly supported immigrant rights, Pa...
January
Gun Violence Awareness Day, Ntl.(1998): Ju...
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Wear Orange on June 2 to honor the memory of the over 30,000 people a year that die from gun violence in the United States (with an additional 70,000+ injured). Of these, 33 percent are homicides, and 66...
January
Gurgadi (S)(1606): June 11
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Guru Hargobind Sahib became a guru in the Sikh faith on this day in 1606.
January
Happy Birthday to You Day (1893): June 27
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June 27, 1893, is the anniversary of "Happy Birthday to You," the song. The now iconic melody and words first appeared together in 1912. Today, people remember one of the most popular songs of all time,...
January
Heimlich Maneuver Day, Intl.(1974): June 1...
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The Heimlich Maneuver was introduced via the Emergency Medicine Journal on June 1, 1974, by a thoracic surgeon and medical innovator, Dr. Henry Heimlich. Though Dr. Heimlich passed away in 2016, Heimlich...
January
Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness Week (18...
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In 1984, President Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation designating the last week of June as “Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness Week.” Every year since, the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Y...
January
HIV Long-term Survivors Day (1981): June 5
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On June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control described a new disease that seemed to attack gay men. That disease would eventually be called AIDS, and the virus was identified in 1985 as the Human Immu...
January
Hristo Botev Day (BG)(1876): June 2
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June 2, each year, from noon to 12:03 PM, the nation of Bulgaria sounds its air raid sirens to honor a national hero, Hristo Botev. The entire country comes to a stop. Botev was a 28-year-old poet and a p...
January
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