2024 Calendar with holidays, observances and special days

On March 22, Puerto Rico celebrates the annual holiday, Emancipation Day, commemorating the abolition of slavery from its island in 1873. Slaver..→

The theme for World Water Day 2019 is "Leaving no one behind". This is an adaptation of the central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sus..→

It is believed that Muhammad received the first revelation during Ramadan. Ramadan also transliterated Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) ..→

Our climate is changing. This is not just a future scenario. It is happening now. The climate will continue to change over the coming decades as..→

The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), is one of five inhabited American insular area..→

In a study conducted in 2006 the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded that the right to the truth about gross human rig..→

Facts about tuberculosis: HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria kill 6 million people every year; nearly 2 million deaths are caused by TB; TB is curable, bu..→

The feast of the Annunciation is usually held on March 25. It is moved in the Catholic Church, Anglican and Lutheran liturgical calendars when t..→

For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims of the tragic transatlantic slave trade, one of the darkest ch..→

Beirut (AFP) - More than 50 UN staff members have been killed, imprisoned or gone missing in war-wracked Syria, the UN Office for the Coordinati..→

Maryland is famous for great seafood, especially crabs. Maryland Day commemorates March 25, 1634. On that day, settlers disembarked from two s..→

Prince Kalanianaole was a prince indeed – a prince of good fellows and a man among men. A man of sterling sincerity and strong convictions – he ..→

The Alaska Purchase was the United States’ acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire by a treaty ratified by the United States Senate. Sewa..→

National Doctors’ Day in the United States was established to recognize physicians, their work, and their contributions to society and the commu..→

Hundreds of thousands of Ohio citizens answered the call to serve our nation during the Vietnam War. Of those Ohioans who served in Vietnam, app..→

The Vietnam War was fought in Vietnam from 1961 to 1975, and involved North Vietnam and Viet Cong in conflict with the United States and South V..→

During a 25-day fast in 1972, Chavez and Huerta coined the slogan "Si, se puede," Spanish for "Yes, it can be done." It beca..→

Transfer Day recognizes the historic significance of the territory’s transfer of ownership from Denmark to the United States of America on March..→

Why can’t you tickle yourself? Scientists have discovered that the feeling experienced when we are tickled causes us to panic and is a natural d..→

Confederate History Month and related celebrations have been controversial due to the contentious place of slavery in the history of the United ..→

’Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and the other few to be chewed and digested’ - said Sir Francis Bacon. Seems like some peo..→

Child abuse or child maltreatment is any act, or failure to act, by a parent or other caregiver that results in actual or potential harm to a ch..→