Wednesday 19 March Oil Nationalisation Day in Iran
Western companies had been involved in the extraction of oil in Iran and other countries in the Middle East since extraction had become technically and…
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Western companies had been involved in the extraction of oil in Iran and other countries in the Middle East since extraction had become technically and…
Islam first arrived on the Comoros Islands in the 7th century and today over 98% of all Comorians follow the religion. Almost everyone belongs to…
Born on March 21st 1806, Benito Juárez is today remembered as a reformer dedicated to democracy, reducing the influence of the Catholic Church in Mexican…
On June 29th 1848, the Spanish founded Davao in the Davao Gulf on the island of Mindanao. Davao began to grow and expand during the…
Hungary had been part of the Austrian Empire since the early part of the nineteenth century, though it had operated almost as a separate country;…
Holi was originally a festival to celebrate the start of Spring, good harvests and fertility of the land. The first mentions of it date back…
Each year, the President of Liberia will issue a Proclamation for this holiday in line with an Act of the National Legislature approved on October…
Well known as Bali Hinduism’s new year, the celebration of Nyepi is unique. Unlike other New Year’s celebrations known for grand festivities, actively observe this…
Until 2008, this holiday was known as Baron Bliss Day as the day is dedicated to Baron Bliss, who willed nearly two million Belize dollars…
27 countries (mainly former Soviet republics) have adopted International Women's Day as a national holiday, and it is widely observed in several others. For most…
International Women's Day was first established at the 1910 International Socialist Women's Conference in Copenhagen. German women's rights activist and Marxist theorist Clara Zetkin was…
In this part of India, farming involves Jhumming, which is a system of rotating which fields are used for planting each year. This means that…
This statutory public holiday is celebrated on March 6th. If March 6th falls on a weekend, the following Monday will be observed as a holiday. …
French Polynesia, the only overseas country of France, is a collection of over 100 islands and atolls in the South Pacific Ocean. Its remote location…
The festival of Carnival is similar to the Brazilian Carnival, in that it was brought to the new world by European settlers in the seventeenth…
This day commemorates Ethiopia's victory over Italy in 1896, securing Ethiopian sovereignty. While most of Africa had come under colonial rule during the so-called scramble…
Losar means New Year (lo - year, sar - new) in Tibetan. It is the most important festival in the Tibetan calendar. The origins of…
This is Mongol New Year and is celebrated over the first three days of the lunar year, which begins at sunset on the day of…
Following the arrival of Christopher Columbus on Hispaniola on December 5th 1492, the island became the site of the first permanent European settlement in the…
Known across the country simply as "The Chief", Michael Somare was Papua New Guinea’s longest-serving leader after it became independent of Australia in 1975. He…