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Kamehameha Day on June 11 is a public holiday of the state of Hawaii in the United States. It honors Kamehameha the Great, the monarch who first... read more

The International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 to focus attention on the global extent of child... read more

People with albinism face multiple forms of discrimination worldwide. Albinism is still profoundly misunderstood, socially and medically. The ph... read more

The Odunde Festival is a one-day festival and mostly a street market catered to African-American interests and the African diaspora. It is deriv... read more

In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened on that d... read more

Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925) is widely regarded as Wisconsin’s most distinguished poli... read more

Every year, on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day ([WHO] (WHA58.13)). The event serves to thank voluntary, unp... read more

The fifteenth day of June is designated as "Elder Abuse Awareness Day" to increase public awareness of the innocent victims of elder a... read more

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 t... read more

As per the Remittances Stats, one in every ten people around the globe is directly associated with remittances. The U.S. is the largest remittan... read more

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... read more

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... read more

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 ... read more

“Women’s security and empowerment remain priorities for the Secretary-General. The international community must not rest until all violence agai... read more

The nineteenth day of June is designated as "Juneteenth National Freedom Day" to acknowledge the freedom, history, and culture that Ju... read more

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 Rive... read more

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... read more

Father’s Day is a relatively new holiday in U.S. holiday calendar. A Day, celebrating fatherhood and male parenting, was officially made a natio... read more

In effect Californians created a surfboard with wheels. California was the birthplace of the skateboarding culture. In 1976, Florida built the f... read more

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 rea... read more

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... read more

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, one-third of all women who become widowed are younger than age 60, and half of th... read more