Sujet : More Days for Good Things
De : benlizro (at) *nospam* ihug.co.nz (Ross Clark)
Groupes : sci.langDate : 31. Mar 2025, 05:35:28
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Human Rights Day (21 March, South Africa)
Anniversary of a dark day (Sharpeville, 21/3/1960)
https://www.parliament.gov.za/project-event-details/2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpeville_massacre----------------
Truth and Justice Day (Día de la Memoria por la Verdad y la Justicia) (24 March, Argentina)
Commemorates victims of the "Civic-military Dictatorship" which came to power through a coup on 24/3/1976
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Remembrance_for_Truth_and_Justicehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic-military_dictatorship_of_Argentina---------------
Freedom Day (Jum il-Ħelsien) (31 March, Malta)
"On 31 March 1979 the last British Forces left Malta. For the first time in a millennium, Malta was no longer a military base of a foreign power and it became independent de facto as well as de jure."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Day_(Malta)
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Oh, there's also
Greek Independence Day (25 March, Greece and Cyprus)
It's also the Feast of the Annunciation, said to have been chosen by the revolutionaries of 1821 as the start of their struggle against Turkish rule.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration_of_the_Greek_RevolutionNowruz (Iranian New Year) (20 March) also celebrated in many neighbouring and diasporic countries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NowruzI had this down in my list as being celebrated in Albania, and I wondered why?
It's complicated...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevruz_in_Albania