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Planes, trains and aggravation: 38 million people expected to travel this Memorial Day weekend. 11 spectacular photos of jets spitting fire with their afterburners. Declassified photos show the US ...
Confederate Memorial Day (called Confederate Heroes Day in Texas and Florida, and Confederate Decoration Day in Tennessee) is a holiday observed in several Southern U.S. states on various dates since the end of the American Civil War. The holiday was originally publicly presented as a day to remember the estimated 258,000 Confederate soldiers ...
The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman's Memorial or the Emancipation Group is a monument in Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was sometimes referred to as the "Lincoln Memorial" before the more prominent national memorial was dedicated in 1922. [3] [4]
The National Martyrs' Memorial ( Bengali: জাতীয় স্মৃতিসৌধ, romanized : Jatiyo Sriti Shoudho) is a national monument in Bangladesh. It was built to honour and remember those who died during the Bangladesh Liberation War (as well as the genocide) in 1971, which resulted in Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan.
Memorial Day falls on Monday, May 27 this year. For many people, the last Monday in May serves as the unofficial start to summer, but the true meaning behind the federal holiday is to honor and ...
International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. Taiwan (Republic of China) 27 January. 25 February. Holocaust Memorial Day (大屠殺陣亡將士紀念日) (Dà túshā zhènwáng jiàngshì jìniàn rì) In addition to the European events, the ROC/Taiwan also honors the victims of the February 28 incident.
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The first memorial service following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, took place the following day at the R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis, Tennessee. This was followed by two funeral services on April 9, 1968, in Atlanta, Georgia, the first held for family and close friends at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King ...