Author Archives: Rob Burroughs

This day creates awareness about the increasing threats facing the Jaguar and the critical conservation efforts ensuring its survival from Mexico to Argentina. It celebrates the America’s largest wild cat as an umbrella species for biodiversity conservation and an icon for sustainable development and the centuries-old cultural heritage of Central and South America. This dayContinue reading “International Jaguar Day”

Albania Flag Day This days celebrates the Albanian Declaration of Independence on this day in 1912 and the rise of the Albaian flag in Vlora, coinciding with the day in which Skanderbeg raised the same flag in Kruje in 1443. Mauritania Independence Day This is the national day of the country and commemorates independence fromContinue reading “Holidays on 28th November”

Bosnia and Herzegovina Statehood Day This day commemorates when the ZAVNOBiH made Resolution of ZAVNOBiH declaring the country peoples’ will for the country to be their own. Suriname Independence Day This day marks the country’s independence from the Netherlands in 1975. In 1593 Spanish explorers visited the country and named it. In the first halfContinue reading “Holidays on 25th November”

Brazil Flag Day This day celebrates the adoption of the current Brazil flag on this day in 1889, when Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, acting as provisional president of Brazil, vetoed the design of the new flag just flown 4 days earlier. He suggested the flag look like the old imperial flag, and Raimundo Teixeira MendesContinue reading “Holidays on 19th November”

Oman National Day This day celebrates independence from Portugal control in 1650. This holiday is the start of a two day break, as 19th November is also a public holiday to mark the birthday of the Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said al Said. According to royal decree, the actual dates of the holidays mayContinue reading “Holidays on 18th November”

Children in Need is an annual telethon held on BBC One and Two in the United Kingdom. The show money for disadvantaged children and young people in United Kingdom. Since it started in 1980 on the TV, it has raised more than 1 billion pounds. Terry Wogan was on the first ever TV broadcast andContinue reading “Children in Need”

Dia da Proclamação da República (Brazil) This day celebrates the establishment of the First Brazilian Republic on this day in 1889 after a military coup d’etat. The proclamation took place in Rio de Janiero, when a group of military officials of the Brazilian Army, led by Mardhal Deodoro da Fonseca, staged a coup d’etat withoutContinue reading “Holidays on 15th November”

This day was created in 1991 by IDF and the World Health Organisation in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes. It became an official United Nation Day in 2006, and is marked today as it is the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin along with Charles BestContinue reading “World Diabetes Day”

Today marks 105 years since the First World War ended as Germany signed an armistice with the allied forces declaring fighting would stop on the 11th day of the 11th month at the 11th hour. This day allows people to remember and honour those who are fighting or have fought in wars. Services and paradesContinue reading “Remembrance/Veterans/Armistice Day”