Held every year on November 17. International Students’ Day was created in 1941 to comemorate Nazi’s storming the University of Prague after demonstrations against the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939. Nine students were killed and over 1200 students were send to concentration camps. All Czech universities and colleges were closed. International Students’ Day is … Read more International Students’ Day
Celebrated every year on November 9. World Freedom Day was declared in 2001 by then-President to commemorate the end of the in 1991 and the fall of the in 1989. The fall of the Berlin Wall finally connected and after decades of political separation. It would be a tragedy if someone would make that mistake again of … Read more World Freedom Day
Every year on November 9. A single creator for this holiday was not found, but…. Let’s ask history! These chaotic events all happened on a November 9: 1872: The Great Boston Fire. U.S.A. In the that lasted about 12 hours, 776 buildings were destroyed. It didn’t help that most buildings were mostly wooden, the water … Read more Chaos Never Dies Day
Benjamin Banneker Week is celebrated every week that has his birthday November 9 in it. Benjamin Banneker, born in November 9 1731, was born from a free African American woman and a former slave. He had little education, but had a ravenous thirst for knowledge. So Benjamin became his own teacher and sought out all he … Read more Benjamin Banneker Week
King Tut Day is celebrated every year on November 4. On November 4, 1922 King ‘s tomb was found by . This was a great find. Because the grave was still in a good state and the many gifts and good enough state of the decorations in the tomb gave us a LOT of information about … Read more King Tut Day
Steve Jobs Day was created in 2011 by the then . This was shortly after Steve Jobs passing away from . was well known as the and of , Steve Jobs did not build the computers, nor did he write any of the code. He just .
Celebrated every year on the second Monday in October Since Columbus is rapidly decreasing in popularity as more people know more about the history of “discovering America”. Columbus Day is often replaced with Native American Day because native Americans lived in the American continents long before Columbus and even the vikings “discovered” the territory long … Read more Columbus Day
Celebrated every year on the second Tuesday of October Once upon a time invented a calculating engine, called the . , who would later become the countess of Lovelace, liked the Analytical Engine so much that she helped Babbage with his calculations and articles made about the machine. Ada believed that the Analytical Machine had … Read more Ada Lovelace Day
Celebrated every year on September 30 The Today I Found Out channel has an interesting video about this much talked about Pony Express.
Celebrated every year on January 4 , well known as the scientist under the apple tree, was born on January 4, 1643 in Woolsthorpe, England. He made fame by being very skilled in and mathematics and his ground breaking work with , universal gravitation (the part where the apple fell), newton’s laws of motion, and many … Read more Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday
Celebrated every year on December 17. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared December 17 to be Wright Brothers Day in 1959 to commemorate the first successful flights in a “heavier-than-air, mechanically propelled” airplane, made by Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17, 1903. “I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that … Read more Wright Brothers Day
celebrated every year on December 10. Jane Addams Day was created in 2007 to commemorate the date in 1931 when was awarded the for her extensive work for peace and .
Celebrated every year on November 5. Guy Fawkes Night is also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Gunpowder Day, Bonfire Night and Firework Night, etc… On November 5 in 1605 Guy Fawkes was the hapless guy found. He was arrested, tortured and executed. And for good measure straw representations of him are burned each year on … Read more Guy Fawkes Night
International Animation Day is celebrated every year on October 28. International Animation Day was created by ASIFA in 2002 to honor what is often called in history “the birth of animation” which happened on October 28 1892 when ’s in Paris had it’s first public performance of the projected moving images and . … Read more International Animation Day
Canadian Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the second Monday of October. Canadian Thanksgiving used to be celebrated somewhere in October or early November. The reasons for picking a date varied widely through the ages. Finally in 1957 governor Vincent Massey decided to pin the date on the second Monday of October and that has stuck for … Read more Canadian Thanksgiving Day