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Pet Tech’s official CPR Day page and current class listings show CPR Day / Pet CPR & First Aid as organizer-set training categories offered on multiple dates and locations, not one universa…
Last Chance for Animals directly states that it created National Pet Theft Awareness Day in 1988 and observes it annually on February 14; Los Angeles City Council records later 2005 local e…
The Philippine Military Academy traces its institutional roots to the Academia Militar established on 25 October 1898; Philippine government communications mark the academy’s founding anniv…
Republic Act No. 11304 declares February 4 of every year Philippine-American War Memorial Day / Araw ng Paggunita sa Digmaang Pilipino-Amerikano and classifies it as a special working holid…
Proclamation No. 381 (2000) established Philippine-British Friendship Day on December 7; Proclamation No. 1592 (2008) moved the recurring date to October 20. Current NCCA material lists Oct…
Republic Act No. 9187 declares June 30 each year Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day, a national special working holiday and a special non-working holiday in Aurora Province; current NCCA/NHC…
The U.S. House of Representatives agreed to a resolution supporting the designation of Pi Day and encouraging schools and educators to observe it with mathematics activities
Nils Frahm’s first-party archive announces the first Piano Day for 29 March 2015 and the continuing 88th-day rule. His biography says he launched Piano Day with friends in 2015, while the o…
The first-party Wellcat Holidays calendar lists Pick A Pathologist Pal Day on December 13 and identifies the Wellcat Holidays collection as created by Thomas and Ruth Roy. The creator page…
The Pilates Method Alliance maintains the current first-Saturday-in-May Pilates Day campaign; USPTO records document PMA use of PILATES DAY in November 2003, while the exact first public ce…
Canadian federal and provincial government sources describe Pink Shirt Day as an anti-bullying day observed across Canada on the last Wednesday in February.
State of Utah public-agency holiday calendar
São Paulo municipal and SPTuris material trace July 10 Pizza Day to a 1985 city pizza festival/competition connected with São Paulo tourism authorities and publicist Carlito Maia; SPTuris c…
The American Recorder Society states that Play-the-Recorder Day grew from a 1989 event, became annual in 1992, and is observed on the third Saturday in March.
The Academy of American Poets identifies Poetry & the Creative Mind as its annual National Poetry Month event held since 2003. Its archived 2026 event page verifies the 28 April 2026 editio…
Tweetspeak Poetry announced January 15, 2013 as the first Poetry at Work Day and continues to sponsor the observance on the second Tuesday in January.
Official Pokémon sources identify February 27 as Pokémon Day because the first Pokémon video games launched in Japan on February 27, 1996; contemporaneous 2016 reporting documents The Pokém…
India’s Press Information Bureau documents Police Commemoration Day on 21 October and its connection to the 1959 Hot Springs police sacrifice.
Poland’s Act of February 20, 2004 inserted Article 6a establishing May 2 as Flag Day of the Republic of Poland. Current government material continues the May 2 observance and explains its h…
Timeanddate lists Political Flag Day in Mongolia every July 10 and explicitly distinguishes it from a public holiday; National Today independently places the observance on July 10.
Timor-Leste Law No. 10/2005 designates August 30 as Popular Consultation Day, a fixed-date national public holiday; current Government holiday notices retain that status, and UN records est…
The official Porthcawl Elvis Festival site verifies the 25–27 September 2026 edition, describes the festival as an end-of-September annual event, and its own archive documents festival awar…
Government of Portugal
36 U.S.C. §116 directly establishes the recurring last-Monday-in-May federal prayer-proclamation framework; current presidential proclamations continue the statutory practice.
Health Canada’s health-promotion calendar lists Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day on 15 October, and federal public-health statements recognize the day.
Government of Slovenia
Pride Cymru states that the first Cardiff Mardi Gras was held in 1999, the event was renamed Pride Cymru in 2014, and the charity continues to organize the Cardiff festival; its current fes…
Ecuador government sources anchor the historical commemoration to August 10, 1809 and treat August 10 as a mandatory national holiday subject to the country’s statutory transfer rules.
Hawaiʻi law designates 26 March as Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole Day.
War Resisters’ International documents 1 December as Prisoners for Peace Day and traces the observance to 1957; WRI annual reporting independently records the 1 December campaign date.
Students for Life event material publishes the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity and its target-year date; historical organizer material notes a typical third-Tuesday-in-October pattern but…
South Australia’s current Public Holidays Act 2023 names 26 December as the Proclamation Day holiday, while the History Trust of South Australia documents 28 December 1836 as the first vice…
Mali government material marks September 22 as the anniversary of accession to independence; a contemporaneous UN record states that Act No. 60-35/AL/RS of September 22, 1960 proclaimed the…
Latvia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs lists 18 November as the Proclamation of the Republic of Latvia (National Day), and Latvia’s in-force law on holidays recognizes 18 November as Proclama…
The Presidency of Burkina Faso states that the Republic of Upper Volta was proclaimed on 11 December 1958. Current government sources call 11 December the national celebration and frame it…
The 15 November 1889 historical event is the anniversary anchor. Federal legal sources show November 15 in the national-commemoration framework by Decree 155-B of 1890 and as a national hol…
The Global Speakers Federation names March 14 as Professional Speakers Celebration Day annually, beginning in 2023, and its 2026 program again uses March 14.
Child Care Aware of America states that Provider Appreciation Day is observed annually on the Friday before Mother’s Day; its 2026 toolkit gives 8 May 2026.
A Port of Corpus Christi Authority resolution adopted February 19, 2019 designated March 1 of each calendar year as Public Risk Management Awareness Day and described March 1, 2019 as the i…
Government of Puducherry history records the 1 November 1954 de facto transfer, while a 2014 Home Department order declared 1 November a public holiday on account of Puducherry Liberation D…
The City of Orlando’s 2026 official announcement describes the Pulse Remembrance Ceremony as an annual community remembrance held every June 12 to honor the 49 people killed, survivors and…
Last Chance for Animals states that it and other animal activists started Puppy Mill Awareness Day in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 2004 and that it takes place annually on the third Saturday…
Purple Day’s official site says Cassidy Megan created the idea in 2008, the Epilepsy Association of the Maritimes helped develop it, and Cassidy, EAM and the Anita Kaufmann Foundation launc…
U.S. Army sources describe the day as observed annually on 7 August; VA history establishes the 1782 Badge of Military Merit date anchor while the modern day’s founder remains unresolved.
Puzzle creator Jodi Jill identifies herself as the founder of Puzzle Day and states that Puzzle Day is celebrated annually on January 29.
Chinese government portals describe Qixi as falling on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month; Shanghai's 2026 page gives August 19 for that year's edition.
Queensland Government
Wellcat’s first-party holiday calendar lists Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day on March 27; Wellcat’s preserved media coverage identifies Thomas and Ruth Roy as creators of the named day…
R U OK? states that the campaign was born in 2009 from Gavin Larkin’s work with Janina Nearn and that R U OK?Day is held on the second Thursday in September; the organization gives 9 Septem…
New Zealand History records that Race Relations Day was first formally celebrated in New Zealand on 21 March 2003, aligning with the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discr…
Bahá’í sources establish the 1957 inauguration of Race Amity Day on the second Sunday in June, its first June 9, 1957 observance and the 1965 rename to Race Unity Day.
Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower states in a 2026 government speech that Singapore observes Racial Harmony Day on July 21 each year as a reminder of the importance of mutual respect, trust…
Founder Deborah Barnes directly documents the first annual August 28 observance in 2015, its date rationale in memory of Mr. Jazz, and continuing 2026 stewardship.
A Government of India 2026 restricted-holiday list records Raksha Bandhan on 28 August 2026.
Proclamation No. 15 declares 17 March 1966 and every March 17 thereafter as Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Day.
Statute Law of The Bahamas / Office of the Prime Minister
The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation identifies Random Acts of Kindness Day® as 17 February and describes it as an internationally observed campaign.
OverDrive states that Read an Ebook Day takes place every September 18 and documents the campaign’s 2014 launch.
Timeanddate lists Reconquest Day on January 2 as an observance in Spain, and Calendarific independently records January 2 for the same observance.
Record Store Day first-party sources say the event was conceived in 2007, first held on 19 April 2008, and is normally held on the third Saturday of April; organizer materials also document…
Tasmania’s Statutory Holidays Act 2000 directly specifies Recreation Day on the first Monday in November for areas that do not observe Royal Hobart Regatta; WorkSafe Tasmania publishes curr…
NIRSA states that Recreational Sports & Fitness Day, also known as Rec Day, is celebrated every February 22 and began in 1999 to mark the association’s history.
Red Hat Society first-party material identifies 25 April as its official birthday and the anniversary of the first gathering on 25 April 1998.
Alamo Drafthouse and Kodak launched Reel Film Day in 2017 around 35mm film, using 3/5 as the date reference to 35mm.
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics states that Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day is celebrated on the second Wednesday in March during National Nutrition Month.
Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei documents the post-war origin of the National Remembrance tradition, the 1946 national framework, later government decisions, and the current 4 May observance wi…
Veterans Affairs Canada and the Department of National Defence identify Remembrance Day as November 11 and provide official remembrance guidance and ceremony context.
Australia’s Department of Veterans’ Affairs states that Remembrance Day is held on November 11 each year, the anniversary of the 1918 Armistice. DVA records the first Australian two-minute…
Turkmenistan’s government identifies 6 October as Remembrance Day commemorating victims of the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake as well as national heroes who died in war; the public search title i…
UK government and Royal British Legion material place Remembrance Sunday on the second Sunday in November; in 2026 that falls on 8 November.
World Animal Protection states that Reptile Awareness Day is held every year on October 21 and uses World Reptile Day on the same campaign page; Arignar Anna Zoological Park also documents…
Ghanaian official and legal sources identify 1 July with the 1960 republican transition; Republic Day was a commemorative day under the post-2019 framework and the 2025 amendment restored 1…
