Author Archives: Rob Burroughs

Armenian Independence Day This is the main state holiday of the country. On 23rd August 1990, the Supreme Council adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Armenia proclaiming the Armenian SSR abolished and the establishment of a Republic of Armenia. On 21st September that year the people of Armenia voted in a referendum to proclaimContinue reading “Holidays on 21st September”

This is the public holiday of Wallonia, the southern region in Belgium. It is celebrated every year on the third Sunday in September, commemorating the participation of the Walloons to the Belgian Revolution in 1830.

This day is celebrated on the third Sunday in September and unites 180 countries across the world to help us create a cleaner planet, with people coming together to rid our planet of rubbish from beaches, rivers, forests and streets. It was created in Estonia, where, in 2008, 50000 people united to clean up theContinue reading “World Cleanup Day”

John Bela created this holiday in 2005 on a drab street in downtown San Francisco, being held on the third Friday of September ever since. It has gone on to enliven countless parking blocks around the world which are normally reserved for parkted cars. There has been a streetisde ping pong table put up, andContinue reading “Park(ing) Day”

This is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers of Albany, Oregon, U.S., who proclaimed 19th September each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate. The holiday, and its observance, comes from a romanticised view of the Golden Age of Piracy. The dayContinue reading “International Talk Like a Pirate Day”

Today commemorates the independence of the country from the United Kingdom on 19th September 1983. The British in 1623 and the French in 1624 were the first Europeans who settled on the islands. This caused a period of France, Spain and Britain wrestling for control of the islands in the region with British emerging victoriousContinue reading “Happy Independence Day St Kitts & Nevis”

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, the biblical name being Yom Teruah which means “day of shouting or blasting”. If is the first of the Jewish High Holy Days, and is a two day celebration that begins on the first day of Tishrei, which is the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year. It isContinue reading “Rosh Hashanah”

The Fiestas Patrias (Homeland Holidays) of Chile consists of two days, with a third one added on in some years. 18th September – Commemoration of the proclamation of the First Governing Body of 1810, and marking the beginning of the Chilean Independence process. 19th September – Known as the Day of the Glories of theContinue reading “Fiestas Patrias”

Grito de Dolores This day is Mexican’s Independence Day when Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest known as Father Hidalgo, made the first cry for independence for the country from Spain. He made a speech in Dolores, and took up the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a Roman Catholic image of the VirginContinue reading “Holidays on 16th September”

Today marks five independence days in Central America in the countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. None of these countries had looked for independence from Spain, but after the Spanish were finally defeated in the Mexican War of Independence, the authorities in Guatemala declared the independence of all of Central America.