Calendar

O1 • • World Milk Day Global Parents Day

O2 • • Telangana Formation Day Elizabeth II crowned queen of England [1953]

O3 • • World Bicycle Day American boxer Muhammad Ali died in Arizona [2O16]

O4 • International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression • Henry Ford rides his 1st Ford on the Detroit streets [1896]

O5

O6 • • World Pest Day The Basketball Association of America established [1946]

O7 • • World Food Safety Day Vatican city declared a sovereign state [1929]

O8

World Ocean Day

O9 • • World Accreditation Day Sweden and Denmark inks Stockholm’s 3rd Treaty [172O]

1O • • National Iced Tea Day (US) Benjamin Franklin examines lightning conductor [1752]

11 • • Student Day (Honduras) Explorer Captain James Cook unearths Australia’s Great Barrier Reef [1770]

12 • • Anti-Child Labour Day Nelson Mandela sentenced life imprisonment in South Africa [1964]

13 • International Albinism Awareness Day • US House of representatives moves 14th Amendment [1866]

14 • • World Blood Donor Day Russia and Poland inks Polianov Peace treaty [1634]

15 • • World Wind Day Denmark got victory through King Valdemar II [1219]

16 • • Youth Day (South Africa) Wearing of orange clothes banned in Holland [1784]

17 • World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought • Last apartheid laws end in South Africa [1991]

18

INTERNATIONAL PICNIC DAY

19 • • National Reading Day First time Father’s Day celebrated in Washington [191O]

2O • • World Refugee Day The Oxford University gets its charter [1214]

21

INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY 22

INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC DAY

22 • • Teacher’s Day (El Salvador) Launch of 1st Dairy Queen restaurant in Illinois [194O]

24 • • Midsummer Day (England) “Catch 22” releases in movie theatres [197O]

25 • • National Catfish Day (US) Lydia Garrett becomes 17th Miss Black America [1984]

26 • International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking • Britain grants independence to Somaliland (now Somalia) [196O]

27 • • International MSME Day “Flip Wilson Show” last broadcast on NBC – TV [1974]

28 • • Constitution Day (Ukraine) Spanish forces invades Buren [1575]

29 • • National Statistics Day Massive 6.0 earthquake strikes Southern Calif [1991]

3O • • International Asteroid Day Biggest US tanker “Brooklyn” christened [1973]