World Duchenne Awareness Day
A/RES/78/12 states that the United Nations Day is to be observed every year beginning in 2024; World Duchenne Organization material documents the 2024 UN-recognized edition.
See the observances and verified observance-history milestones attached to September 7. Each observance keeps its own source and date details.
Selected observance milestones connected to this date, based on reviewed sources.
A/RES/78/12 states that the United Nations Day is to be observed every year beginning in 2024; World Duchenne Organization material documents the 2024 UN-recognized edition.
INTERPOL states that the UN International Day was marked for the first time in 2023.
UNEP identifies 7 September 2020 as the first International Day of Clean Air for blue skies.
A coalition of fair-play and Panathlon organizations launched a worldwide campaign on 7 September before the United Nations later established the 19 May observance.
Proclaimed 9 September 2018 as Admission Day in California and recounted the statehood history.
Benirschke’s first-party biography expressly calls September 7, 2017 the inaugural National Grateful Patient Day.
Fixed the International Day of Peace on 21 September each year with effect from the 57th General Assembly session and declared it a day of global ceasefire and non-violence.
Brazilian federal Law No. 662 of 6 April 1949, as amended, lists 7 September as a national holiday. Federal historical material identifies 7 September 1822 as the conventional national inde…
A/RES/74/212
A/RES/77/241
U.S. Department of Labor history and 5 U.S.C. 6103 verify the 1882 first celebration, the 1894 federal enactment and the current first-Monday-in-September legal holiday; founder attribution…
Canada government holiday schedules and federal labour standards; this Canadian date must not be generalized internationally.
Rolf Benirschke’s first-party biography identifies September 7, 2017 as the inaugural National Grateful Patient Day and launch of the Grateful Patient Project; National Day Calendar records…
Brazilian federal Law No. 662 of 6 April 1949, as amended, lists 7 September as a national holiday. Federal historical material identifies 7 September 1822 as the conventional national inde…
A/RES/74/212
A/RES/77/241
U.S. Department of Labor history and 5 U.S.C. 6103 verify the 1882 first celebration, the 1894 federal enactment and the current first-Monday-in-September legal holiday; founder attribution…
Canada government holiday schedules and federal labour standards; this Canadian date must not be generalized internationally.
Rolf Benirschke’s first-party biography identifies September 7, 2017 as the inaugural National Grateful Patient Day and launch of the Grateful Patient Project; National Day Calendar records…
National Day Calendar lists National New Hampshire Day on 7 September. The U.S. Senate records New Hampshire’s admission/statehood date as 21 June 1788. The two dates are deliberately kept…
A/RES/78/12
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