This week’s Student Blogging Challenge focuses on the celebrations held in countries world wide. I will be highlighting the same international celebration as the Challenge administrator : EARTH HOUR to be celebrated from 8:30-9:30 p.m. this Saturday, March 28. The activities we conduct this week will focus on this holiday. A calendar of some international celebrations is included here. The list is not exhaustive. Spend some time searching for other countries’ causes for celebration; what we celebrate, we value. What do holidays tell you about “We, the people,” and I mean ALL of us, everywhere?
| January |
| 01: Global Family Day |
| 04: World Braille Day |
| 08: World Literary Day |
| 11 : International Thank-You Day |
| 30: World Leprosy Day |
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| February |
| 12: Darwin Day |
| 21: International Mother Language |
| Day |
| 22: World Thinking Day |
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| March |
| 01: International Day of the Seal |
| 08: International Women’s Day |
| 14: World Book Day |
| 20: World Frog Day |
| 21; World Down Syndrome Day |
| 22: World Day for Water |
| 23: World Meteorological Day |
| 29: Earth Hour – 8pm Local Time |
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| April |
| 02: International Children’s |
| Book Day |
| 07: World Health Day |
| 12: Yuri`s Night |
| 13: International Special Librarian’s Day |
| 21: International Creativity and |
| Innovation Day |
| 22: Earth Day |
| 23: World Copyright Day |
| 25: World Penguin Day |
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| May |
| 03: World Press Freedom Day |
| 05: International Midwives Day |
| 08: World Red Cross Day |
| 10: World Lupus Day |
| 12: International Nurses Day |
| 13: IEEE Global Engineering Day |
| 15: International Day of Families |
| 18: International Museum Day |
| 23: World Turtle Day |
| 31: World No-Tobacco Day |
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| June |
| 08: World Ocean Day |
| 14: World Blood Donor Day |
| 16: International Day of the |
| African Child |
| 17: World Day to Combat |
| Desertification & Drought |
| 20: World Refugee Day |
| 26: International Day Against |
| Drug Abuse & Trafficking |
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| July |
| 11: World Population Day |
| 16: World Snake Day |
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| August |
| 08: Universal & International |
| Infinity Day |
| 10: International Biodiesel Day |
| 12: International Youth Day |
| 13: International Lefthanders |
| Day |
| 14: World Lizard Day |
| 23: International Day for the |
| Remembrance of the Slave Trade |
| & its Abolition |
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| September |
| 08: International Literacy Day |
| 13: International Chocolate Day |
| 15: Software Freedom Day |
| 16: International Day for the |
| Preservation of the Ozone Layer |
| 19: Talk Like a Pirate Day |
| 21: World Gratitude Day |
| 22: World Car-Free Day |
| 29: Inventors Day |
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| October |
| 01: International Music Day |
| 02: World Farm Animals Day |
| 03: World Temperance Day |
| 04: World Animal Day |
| 05: World Teacher’s Day |
| 10: World Mental Health Day |
| 16: World Food Day |
| 24: United Nations Day |
| 29: International Internet Day |
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| November |
| 08: World Town Planning Day |
| 16: International Day for Tolerance |
| 21: World Television Day |
| 25: International Day for the |
| Elimination of Violence |
| Against Women |
| 30: International Computer |
| Security Day |
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| Calendar generated at www.calendarlabs.com |
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| December |
| 01: World AIDS Day |
| 02: International Day for the |
| Abolition of Slavery |
| 05: International Volunteers Day |
| 07: International Civil Aviation Day |
| 10: Human Rights Day |
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