Significant Dates

Thursday 21 Mar 2024

International Day of Forests

The United Nations General Assembly declared 21 March as the International Day of Forests in the year 2012 to celebrate and raise awareness of the imp...

World Down Syndrome Day

Down syndrome occurs when an individual has an extra partial (or whole) copy of chromosome 21. In December 2011, the General Assembly declared 21 Marc...

World Poetry Day

Held every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Pr...

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on the day the police in Sharpeville, South Africa, opened fir...

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