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South African Police. The Sharpeville massacre occurred on 21 March 1960 at the police station in the township of Sharpeville in the then Transvaal Province of the then Union of South Africa (today part of Gauteng ). After demonstrating against anti-black pass laws, a crowd of about 7,000 black protesters went to the police station.
The Christian holidays of Christmas Day and Good Friday remained in secular post-apartheid South Africa's calendar of public holidays. The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission), a chapter nine institution established in 2004, held countrywide consultative public hearings in June and July 2012 to ...
In several cases, Easter falls onto the latest possible, 17th Sunday of the year. The first time that Easter will fall on April 24 in a leap year will be in 4292 which is also the 115th day of the year. The second latest date for Easter, April 24 or day 114, occurred in 2011. The last time this occurred before was in 1859 and it will not happen ...
Freedom Day is a public holiday in South Africa celebrated on 27 April. [ 1] It commemorates the first post- apartheid elections held on that day in 1994 and the day on which the new constitution was introduced. The elections were the first national elections where everyone of voting age of over 18 from any race group, [ 2] was allowed to vote ...
South Africa: June 16 Youth Day on June 16 is a public holiday in South Africa and commemorates a protest which resulted in a wave of protests across the country known as the Soweto uprising of 1976. [14] Taiwan: March 29 In Taiwan, Youth Day (青年節) is celebrated on March 29 in commemoration of the Huanghuagang Uprising of 1911.
Human Rights Day (HRD) is celebrated annually around the world on 10 December every year.. The date was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global enunciation of human rights and one of the first major achievements of the new United Nations.
World Hearing Day. National Anthem Day. Missouri Compromise. National Mulled Wine Day. March 4. National Grammar Day. National Hug a G.I. Day. World Obesity Day. National Pound Cake Day.
03-20: March 20 World Rewilding Day [33] 03-20: March 20 International Day of Forests: 03-21: March 21 World Planting Day [34] [35] [36] 03-21: March 21 World Wood Day [37] 03-21: March 21 World Water Day: 03-22: March 22 International Seal Day [38] 03-22: March 22 World Meteorological Day: 03-23: March 23 International Day of Zero Waste [39 ...