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Nov 30, 2022 · This Day In History; Schedule; Topics; Stories; Black History Month. Author: History.com Editors. Updated: Nov 30, 2022. Original: Jan 14, 2010. ... Black History Month 2023 Theme . Since 1976 ...

Nov 05, 2012 · Observed in the United Kingdom every year on November 5, Guy Fawkes Day—also called Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night—commemorates a failed assassination attempt from over 400 years ago.

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The 6 October 1976 massacre, or the 6 October event (Thai: เหตุการณ์ 6 ตุลา RTGS: het kan hok tula) as it is known in Thailand, was a violent crackdown by Thai police and lynching by right-wing paramilitaries and bystanders against leftist protesters who had occupied Bangkok's Thammasat University and the adjacent Sanam Luang, on 6 October 1976.

Aug 29, 2012 · The iPhone helped turned Apple, which Jobs (1955-2011) co-founded with his friend Stephen Wozniak in California in 1976, into one of the planet’s most valuable corporations. In 2012, five years ...

Law text for the world's first nationwide DST switch (Reichsgesetzblatt, German Empire, 1916). Germany Popularized DST. However, the idea did not catch on globally until Germany introduced DST in 1916.Clocks in the German Empire, and its ally Austria, were turned ahead by one hour on April 30, 1916—two years into World War I. The rationale was to minimize the use of artificial …

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The idea of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday was promoted by labor unions in contract negotiations. After King's death, U.S. Representative John Conyers (a Democrat from Michigan) and U.S. Senator Edward Brooke (a Republican from Massachusetts) introduced a bill in Congress to make King's birthday a national holiday.The bill first came to a vote in the U.S. …

In 1976, the parade was held for the first time at the National Stadium, ... In 2014, it was announced that there would be no new songs produced for National Day for the 2nd time in its long history, and in a historic move by the organizing committee, the classic NDP songs will be sung again. That year's edition saw past NDP theme songs being ...