Labor Day/May Day
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Monday may 1, 2023
Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
Mothers' Day
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Sunday may 14, 2023
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howes Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
Africa Day
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Thursday may 25, 2023
Secular holiday : From 2009 When the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was created in May of 1963, the founding delegates proclaimed May 25, 1963 African Liberation Day (ALD), as the successor commemoration day of Africa Freedom Day.
Victoria Falls Marathon
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Saturday june 17, 2023
Sports events : 2023 edition confirmed
Fathers' Day
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Sunday june 18, 2023
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Africa Day
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Friday june 23, 2023
Culture : Africa Public Service Day
Zambia International Trade Fair
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Wednesday june 28, 2023
Tradeshows : Lasts 1 week -
www.zitf.org.zm in Ndola 2023 edition confirmed
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday june 28, 2023
School holidays :
Heroes Day
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Monday july 3, 2023
Secular holiday : In tribute to soldiers who died in the independence movement
Unity Day
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Tuesday july 4, 2023
Secular holiday :
Farmers' Day
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Monday august 7, 2023
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Winter holiday (end)
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Monday september 4, 2023
School holidays :
National Prayer Day
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Wednesday october 18, 2023
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Independence Day
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Tuesday october 24, 2023
Secular holiday : Granted by the UK in 1963