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World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
On 17 May 1865, in Paris, representatives of twenty European states signed the first International Telegraph Convention. The problem they had gathered …
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World Science Day for Peace and Development
In June and July 1999, some eighteen hundred delegates from around the world gathered in Budapest for the World Conference on Science, jointly …
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World Meteorological Day
In August 1872, more than fifty meteorologists gathered in Leipzig at the urging of Christophorus Buys Ballot, the Dutch scientist who directed the …
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US National Shrimp Scampi Day
The name is a small joke that nobody set out to make. “Scampi” is the Italian plural of scampo, the word for a langoustine — Nephrops …
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Pi Day
At 1:59 in the afternoon on 14 March 1988, a physicist named Larry Shaw led a procession of museum staff around a circular space at the Exploratorium …
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International Safer Internet Day
In 2004 a project funded under the European Union’s first Safer Internet Action Plan, going by the name SafeBorders, launched a modest awareness …
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International Civil Aviation Day
On 7 December 1944, with the Second World War still raging, delegates from 52 nations gathered in Chicago and signed a treaty that would quietly shape …
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India National Science Day
On 28 February 1928, in a modest laboratory of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in Calcutta, the physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata …
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Darwin Day
On 12 February 1809, in a tall brick house called The Mount overlooking the River Severn in Shrewsbury, two children were born on opposite sides of …