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Pink Day in US

Pink Day in US is held on June 23. This event in the third decade of the month June is annual.
Kids today can’t just shut the door. They’re still getting messages on their phones or Facebook, and sometimes they feel that there’s no escape. According to surveys in both the United States and Europe with results indicating that the color pink combined with white or pale blue is most commonly associated with femininity, sensitivity, tenderness, childhood, and the romantic.
Pink Day is a day when people come together by wearing pink shirts to school or work to show they are against bullying.
The Day of Pink was sparked in 2007 when students David Shepherd and Travis Price saw a student being bullied for wearing a pink shirt in their Central Kings Rural High School in Nova Scotia, Canada. Shepherd and Price decided to show support for the student by getting everyone at their school to wear pink the following day.
In Canada Pink Shirt Day, or Anti-Bullying Day, is on February 23. The International Day of Pink is a worldwide anti-bullying and anti-homophobia event held annually during the second week of April.
National Pink Day in the USA is celebrated on June 23 to enjoy all shades of the color pink, be it a pale shade or a darker shade.

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