Day of the Holy Innocents of Bethlehem in El Salvador
Day of the Holy Innocents of Bethlehem in El Salvador is held on December 28. Día de los Santos Inocentes. This event in the third decade of the month December is annual. 
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The Day of the Holy Innocents is the commemoration of a hagiographic episode of Christianity: the slaughter of children under two years of age born in Bethlehem (Judea), ordered by King Herod I the Great in order to get rid of the newborn Jesus of Nazareth.
In the Roman rite of the Catholic Church, the celebration has a party status and is included in the general Roman calendar.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Festa da Conceição da Praia in El Salvador on December 8 (celebrating Yemanjá, Queen of the Ocean in Umbanda, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil);
Doce uvas on December 31 (the Spanish New Year's tradition of eating twelve grape varieties, one for each of the twelve clock strokes by midnight, subsequently spread in such Spanish-speaking countries as Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica et al);
Peace Day in El Salvador on January 16 (Día de la paz - Firma de los acuerdos de paz);
National Nahuat Language Day in El Salvador on February 21 (Día Nacional de la Lengua Náhuat);
Clinical Laboratory Worker Day in El Salvador on February 26 (Día del profesional en laboratorio clínico);
National for the Blind in El Salvador on March 1 (Nacional de Las Personas Ciegas);
Pediatrician's Day in El Salvador on March 11 (Día del pediatra)