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Kwanzaa (/ ˈ k w ɑː n. z ə /) is an annual celebration of African-American culture from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a communal feast called Karamu, usually on the sixth day. [1] It was created by activist Maulana Karenga, based on African harvest festival traditions from various parts of West, East, as well as Southeast Africa ...
[18] 2021 – A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central , Midwestern , and Southern regions of the United States . Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky , where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others.
To find which day of the week Christmas Day of 2021 is, proceed as follows: in the year 2021, doomsday is on Sunday. Since December 12 is a doomsday, December 25, being thirteen days afterwards (two weeks less a day), fell on a Saturday. Christmas Day is always the day of the week before doomsday.
Gough Whitlam. In elections in Australia, the Australian Labor Party (ALP), led by Gough Whitlam, won 67 of the 125 seats in the House of Representatives, to take control of the government from the coalition of the Liberal Party (headed by Prime Minister William McMahon) and the Country Party, removing the Liberals from a majority for the first time in 23 years.
The day is officially celebrated every April 9, the start of the Bataan Death March, although the date was moved on several occasions to avoid it from coinciding with the observance of the Holy Week in the country, especially the Easter Triduum and Easter Sunday, such as in 2004, 2009, 2020, and 2023. [1] [2] [3]
Free Shipping Day was featured on NBC's Today show, Fox Business, CNN and CBS's Early Show, as well as in The New York Times, Real Simple, Better Homes and Gardens, O, The Oprah Magazine and more than 70 other media outlets. In 2010, the third Free Shipping Day began at 12 a.m. EST on Friday, December 17, and ended at 12 a.m. EST, December 18.
On December 18, 2020, by decree of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the name of October 12 was changed to "Day of the Pluricultural Nation". [ 80 ] [ 81 ] The statue of Columbus along Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma was removed and replaced with a replica of The Young Woman of Amajac , a sculpture depicting an Indigenous woman .
French Republican Calendar of 1794, drawn by Philibert-Louis Debucourt. The French Republican calendar (French: calendrier républicain français), also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and ...