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Blind Equality Day has taken the place of White Cane Safety Day, an event first held in October 1964. Blind Equality day expands the scope of White Cane Safety Day by adding in employment and educational...
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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty was first designated in 1993 by the UN General Assembly. Its purpose is to promote awareness of cost of poverty to society, the environment and national ec...
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Based upon the 10 Principles of Fair Trade and 17 Sustainable Development Goals, Anti-Poverty Week in Australia seeks to: Strengthen public understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty and har...
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Honoring Jamaica's first prime minister and a leader in its fight for independence in the early 20th century, Alexander Bustmante. National Heroes Day is an official national holiday. It occurs annually o...
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Independence Day in Azerbaijan marks the anniversary of October 18, 1991 the official day of independence from the Soviet Union. This is a national holiday.
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October 20, 1952, Kenya first president (as yet a revolutionary) Jomo Kenyatta and five colleagues were arrested by British colonial forces. This is the origin of this holiday, originally called Kenyatta...
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National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression & the Criminalization of a Generation has been organized annually since 1996. It aims to create a united voice between the public and police...
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Referred to as the Paris Peace Agreements, October 23, 1991 marked the official ending of the Cambodia/Viet Nam War. It is historic in the sense that the United Nations took on the role of a sovereign sta...
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Republic Day in Hungary marks the anniversary of October 23, 1956, the beginning of the uprising against the Soviet Union. The uprising would be crushed on November 4. It wouldn't be until this day in 198...
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United Nations Day marks the establishment via charter of the organization on October 24, 1945. The day is a public holiday within many of its member states.
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Independence Day in Zambia marks the anniversary of October 24, 1964, the official day the nation gained its independence from Britain. It is celebrated on the fourth Monday in May. This is a national hol...
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Retrocession Day in Taiwan marks the anniversary of the end of fifty years of Japanese rule in 1945. Japan took control of the island in 1894, when China lost to it during the Sino-Japanese War. Today, Ta...
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Independence Day in Turkmenistan marks the anniversary of October 27, 1991, the official day the nation gained its independence from the Soviet Union. This is a national holiday.