• World Food Day
    • Day World Food Day (WFD) was established by FAO's Member Countries at the Organization's Twentieth General Conference in November 1979. The date chosen - 16 October - is the anniversary of FAO. It has since been obs...
    • World Teachers’ Day
    • Day Teachers - Opening doors to a better world  (The theme of this year's WTD) On 5 October, teachers’ organisations worldwide mobilise to ensure that the needs of future generations are taken into consid...
    • World Post Day
    • Day World Post Day is celebrated each year on 9 October , the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1874 in the Swiss Capital, Bern. It was declared World Post Day by the UPU Congres...
    • The International Day of Peace
    • ace The International Day of Peace, established by a United Nations resolution in 1981 to coincide with the opening of the General Assembly, was first inaugurated on the third Tuesday of September, 1982. Beginning on thi...
    • Edgar Lee Masters
    • ers (1869-1950)  American poet and novelist, best-known as the author of SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY (1915), a series of 'auto-epitaphs' or monologues in free verse, which often contradicted the pious and optimistic epit...
    • Third International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS)
    • AS) 19-22 AUGUST 2003 The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is one of the largest regular gatherings of scholars whose research centres onAsia and/or Asians, especially in the humanities and social sciences....
    • The International Youth Day
    • Day  (12 August) Finding decent and productive work for young people everywhere International Youth Day aims to promote awareness, especially among youth, of the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 200...
    • The International Day
    • Day of the World's Indigenous People August 9 "It is essential to know and understand the deeply spiritual special relationship between indigenous peoples and their land as basic to their existence as such ...
    • FIRST WORLD WAR
    • WAR Summary Timeline: 1914 June 28: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Sarajevo, Bosnia. June 28: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. July 29 - Dec...
    • World Population Day (UNFPA)
    • FPA) 11 July 2003 Message of the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan The theme of this year’s World Population Day, “One billion adolescents: the right to health, information and services”, highlights the need to suppo...
    • 31 May 2003 WORLD NO-TOBACCO DAY
    • D NO-TOBACCO DAY The world counts 1.2 billion smokers today and if current predictions come true, we may have an additional 400 million smokers by 2020. [WHO] aims to reverse that trend and prevent future generati...
    • FIRST INTERNATIONAL DAY OF UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPERS
    • ERS TO BE COMMEMORATED ON 29 MAY NEW YORK, 23 May (Department of Public Information) -- The first International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers will be observed on Thursday, 29 May this year, following its establishmen...
    • World Environment Day 2003
    • 003 World Environment Day, commemorated each year on 5 June, is about you and me. It is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances polit...
    • International Childrens Book Day
    • Day Every year, the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) organises and promotes International Children's Book Day "to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children's books"...