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Events found under the children category celebrate, support, or affect persons under the age of eighteen.
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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...
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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 t...
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The Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games are the winter games for youth. Sponsored by the International Olympic Committee, this event engages youth in competitive sports, cultural and educational programs....
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Take Your Child to the Library Day is a Connecticut-based, grass-roots project created by Nadine Lipman, retired Head of Children's Services at the Waterford (CT) Public Library. It first ran in 2012. T...
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Television Safety Day is a joint promotion of Safe Kids Worldwide and The Consumer Electronics Association. It focuses on removing hazards from your home that are a danger to children. Approximately 17 ch...
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National Girls & Women in Sports is an annual celebration of the Women's Sports Foundation to honor the contributions, achievements and importance of women's sports professionally and scholastically. It s...
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Bubble Gum Day gives people a chance to chew gum in places where they usually can't. All they have to do is donate 50 cents or more to a charity the school chooses. Kids have fun raising money for a good...
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The Give Kids A Smile program began in 2003 as a way for dentists and other organizations to join together and provide dental services to underserved children. Originally a one-day event in February, many...
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Family Day is celebrated in British Columbia a week earlier than the rest of the country to permit Louis Riel Day, which falls on Family Day, its own observance. Family Day is a national holiday in Can...
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Safer Internet Day (SID) is organized by Insafe and occurs in February. Its objective is to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones within the European Union. In 2018...
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No One Eats Alone® teaches everyone how to make friends at lunch, often the most difficult part of the school day. Created and organized by students, this is our most popular program where schools in all...
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Family Day (also known as Louis Riel Day) is an national holiday in Canada and is set aside for family activities. It is celebrated in all provinces except British Columbia, which celebrates it a week e...
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One day of National Engineering Week in the US each year is dedicated to getting young women and girls interested in engineering. Dubbed ‘Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day’, company and institutions inv...
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Recognizing outstanding caregivers throughout the nation, National Caregivers Day focuses on the necessary in home and institutional services these dedicated men and women make. Whether taking care of the...
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Discover Engineering Family Day is one of several events during Engineering Week. Family Day is designed to help students between the ages of 4 and 12 learn about engineering and the importance of techn...
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Bullying is a major problem in Canadian schools, workplaces, homes, and over the Internet. The event takes place on the last Wednesday of February. The idea for wearing Pink Shirts to end bully started...
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The picture for this event is of girls in Syria at school. Computers and the Internet have opened an entire world of knowledge to all, if one knows how to use the tools. This day is about making sure tha...
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Summer's Day in Australia is a national day to remember all the children whom have lost their lives as the result of preventable injury and to assist those children and family members who are still strugg...
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Bake at Home for Family Fun Month is about promoting home baking and providing tools and knowledge to perpetuate generations of home bakers. The purpose of this month is to reach influencers in the indus...
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Childhood Heart Disease Awareness Month is an awareness campaign and fundraising event during the month of February, sponsored by HeartKids. HeartKids is Australia's charity focused on funding the resea...