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Bosnia and Herzegovina - Independence Day
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Bulgaria - Baba Marta - the welcoming of the ensuing spring.
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Iceland - Beer day - This day in 1989 beer was allowed again
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Korea - Independence Movement Day or the Samil Movement, was one of the earliest displays of Korean independence movements during the Japanese occupation of Korea. The name refers to an event that occurred on 1 March 1919, hence the movement's name (literally meaning "Three-One Movement" in Korean). It is also sometimes referred to as the Manse Demonstrations. During the series of demonstrations that began that day and spread throughout Korea, 7,000 people were killed by Japanese police and soldiers
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Tasmania - Eight Hours Day celebrates the 40 hour week movement
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Wales - Saint David's Day
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Western Australia - Labour day
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Self Injury Awareness Day
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Romania - Martisor - the traditional celebration of the beginning of the spring in Romania and Moldova
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2nd |
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of 'Alá (Loftiness) - First day of the 19th month of the Bahá'í calendar. Beginning of fasting for 19 days.
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3rd |
Japan - Hinamatsuri Day. Celebration day for girls.
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Bulgaria - Liberation Day
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6th |
Ghana - Independence Day
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7th |
Albania - Teacher's Day
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8th |
Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, etc. - Mother's Day.
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International Women's Day
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9th |
Belize - Baron Bliss Day. Baron Bliss was a British-born traveller who willed some two million U.S. dollars to a trust fund for the benefit of the citizens of what was then the colony of British Honduras, now Belize.
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11th |
Lithuania - Reestablishment of Lithuania's Independence.
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Lesotho - Moshoeshoe Day.
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Zambia - Youth Day.
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12th |
Faroe Islands - Grækarismessa (Mass of St. Gregor): According to tradition, the oystercatcher, the Faroes' national bird returns this day. This event is celebrated in the capital, Tórshavn
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Mauritius - National Day.
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China - Arbor Day.
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14th |
Albania - Summer Day: Albanian holiday Summer is celebrated in this day in Elbasan and its surroundings.
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Japan and Korea - White Day: Japanese holiday similar to Valentine's Day (men give gifts to women).
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Estonia - Estonian language day
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15th |
Belarus - Constitution Day
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Hungary - National holiday
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Japan - Honen Matsuri (harvest festival)
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17th |
Christianity - Feast day of St Patrick: a public holiday in Ireland (National feast), Montserrat and the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, widely celebrated elsewhere in North America and worldwide
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18th |
Aruba - Flag Day
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Catholicism -Mothers Day falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent
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Mexico - Expropiación Petrolera - celebrating the date when the President, General Lázaro Cárdenas, declared that all oil reserves found in Mexican soil belonged to the nation
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20th |
Iran - New Year: Norouz occurs on the vernal equinox
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Sunni Muslim - birthday of Prophet Muhammad, born c. 570 AD. As Muslims see it on the Islamic calendar, this day is the 12th of ???? ????? (Rabi' al-Awwal) 1429 AH; the birth date of Prophet Muhammad according to the Islamic calendar.
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21st |
Australia - Harmony Day, an effort to demonstrate the Australian Government's commitment to promoting community harmony and to addressing issues of racism in Australia.
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Namibia - Independence Day
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Mexico - Benito Juárez Day, a Fiesta Patria
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Poland - Truant's Day
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South Africa - Human Rights Day
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Bahá'í Faith - Naw-Rúz: Holy day for Bahá'í Faith.
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Islam - Navroz: Holy day for Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims and first day of spring; also know as the Ismaili new year
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Newpagan - Fest of Ostara
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United Nations - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
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Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria - Mother's Day
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23rd |
Pakistan - National Day (Republic Day).
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Hungary, Poland - Day of Hungarian-Polish Friendship
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25th |
Christianity, March 25 is typically celebrated as the day of the Annunciation so long as it does not fall on a Sunday or during Holy Week or Easter Week.
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Catholicism - Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church: Annunciation of the Theotokos (Mother of God)
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Christianity - Traditional date of the death (circa 33), of Jesus (b. circa 1 BC in traditional dating).
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Greece - Independence Day;
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Belarus - Freedom Day
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Slovenia - Mother's Day
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26th |
Bangladesh - Independence Day
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Zoroastrianism - Prophet Zoroaster's Birthday.
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Hawaii - Prince Kuhio Day
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28th |
Slovakia, Czech Republic - Teachers' Day.
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29th |
Chile - Día del joven combatiente: a remembrance day celebrated with civil disorder in Chile by leftists and anarchists
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30th |
Arabs - Land Day commemorates the killing of six Arab citizens of Israel by the Israeli army (IDF) and police in 1976 during protests over Israeli expropriations of Arab land
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Trinidad and Tobago - Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day
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31st |
Malta - Freedom Day
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