Book Giving Day in Armenia
Book Giving Day in Armenia is held on February 19. This event in the second decade of the month February is annual. 
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On February 19, Hovhannes Tumanyan’s birthday, Armenia celebrates Book-Giving Day. The Book-Giving Day was initiated by the late President of the Writers’ Union Levon Ananyan and has been celebrated since 2008, according to a government decision.
Armenian communities worldwide hold a number of events: books are being donated to libraries, orphanages, schools in an attempt to restore the once important meaning of the book.
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Physicist Day on May 7 (since 1959)