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A Jubilee is often used to refer to the celebration of a particular anniversary of an event, usually denoting the 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th, and the 70th anniversary. The term comes from the Hebrew Bible (see, "Old Testament"), initially concerning a recurring religious observance involving a set number of years, that notably involved freeing of debt slaves.
Silver Jubilee marks a 25th anniversary. The anniversary celebrations can be of a wedding anniversary , the 25th year of a monarch 's reign or anything that has completed or is entering a 25-year mark.
Also called Somhlolo Day or Subhuza Day, after the 19th-century leader Sobhuza I. [52] Fiji: Fiji Day: 10 October: 1970 United Kingdom: Instruments of Independence Finland: Independence Day: 6 December: 1917 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic: Finnish Declaration of Independence Gabon: Independence Day: 16–17 August: 1960 France
Mary Lea Forsythe, from Sand Springs, Oklahoma, has been alive for 100 years. Born on Leap Day a century ago, today is only her 25th birthday.
Celebrates the birthday of Queen Victoria and the current reigning Canadian Monarch. Observed on the last Monday preceding May 25th. [6] June 19: Juneteenth: Emancipation Day: United States: Commemorates the end of slavery in Texas as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation. [7] July 4: Fourth of July: Independence Day: United States
Birthdays are the most common type of anniversary, on which someone's birthdate is commemorated each year. The actual celebration is sometimes moved for practical reasons, as in the case of an official birthday or one falling on February 29. Wedding anniversaries are also often celebrated, on the same day of the year as the wedding occurred.
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