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World Clubfoot Day

World Clubfoot Day is held on June 3. An initiative of the Ponseti International Association to commemorate the birthday of Ignacio Ponseti [1914-2009], the pioneer of the Ponseti technique for clubfoot. This event in the first decade of the month June is annual.

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Dr. Ponseti grew up in Spain where he spent his summers working for his father, a watchmaker. He entered Medical School in 1931 at the University of Barcelona- the year that the monarchy of Spain fell. He graduated in 1936 - the same time that the Spanish Civil war began. He joined the war effort and took care of fractures and wounds on the battlefield.

Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts

International Sex Workers Day on June 2 (In 1975, on 2nd June, about 100 sex workers occupied Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon, France, to express their anger about their criminalised and exploitative living conditions. On 10th June at 5 o'clock the Church was brutally raided and cleared by police forces. This action sparked a national movement, and the day is now celebrated in Europe and around the world);

World Heart Rhythm Week on June 2;

World Eating Disorders Action Day on June 2;

The day of healthy eating and refusal of excess eating in Russia on June 2 (celebrated since 2011);

Day of patients with myasthenia gravis in Argentina on June 2 (Myasthenia gravis is a neurological disorder characterized by pathologically rapid fatigue of striated muscles);