Third week of June, 2020 Calendar with holidays, observances and special days

The fifteenth day of June is designated as "Elder Abuse Awareness Day" to increase public awareness of the innocent victims of elder abuse. (Ohio Revised Code...→

The global population of people aged 60 years and older will more than double, from 542 million in 1995 to about 1.2 billion in 2025. Around 4 to 6% of elderly people hav..→

As per the Remittances Stats, one in every ten people around the globe is directly associated with remittances. The U.S. is the largest remittance source country that wit..→

The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named afte..→

The World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD) is observed worldwide on 17 June every year (UN: A/RES/49/115). Tackling hunger requires a multi-faceted approach – from e..→

Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, is the name given to Emancipation Day by African-Americans in Texas. On that day in 1865 Union Major-General Gordon Granger read Genera..→

“Women’s security and empowerment remain priorities for the Secretary-General. The international community must not rest until all violence against women and girls is eli..→

The nineteenth day of June is designated as "Juneteenth National Freedom Day" to acknowledge the freedom, history, and culture that June 19, 1865, the day on wh..→

Although summer solstice marks the beginning of summer, it is not the hottest time of the year and Earth is not the only planet to have a summer solstice. For example, on..→

The New River Gorge Bridge, in Fayetteville (WV), is the longest steel-arch bridge in the United States spanning 1, 815 feet across the New River Canyon. Ironic to its na..→

At the end of 2013, there were 16.7 million refugees worldwide, with the highest number in Pakistan (1.6 million). We are now in 2016 witnessing the highest levels of dis..→

Father’s Day is a relatively new holiday in U.S. holiday calendar. A Day, celebrating fatherhood and male parenting, was officially made a national holiday by President N..→

In effect Californians created a surfboard with wheels. California was the birthplace of the skateboarding culture. In 1976, Florida built the first outdoor skate-park. ..→

Several scholars have noted that yoga had been packaged so well as a defense against illness and aging that it is “easy to lose sight of its real purpose — spiritual libe..→