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June 16 Youth Day on June 16 is a public holiday in South Africa and commemorates a protest which resulted in a wave of protests across the country known as the Soweto uprising of 1976. [14] Taiwan: March 29 In Taiwan, Youth Day (青年節) is celebrated on March 29 in commemoration of the Huanghuagang Uprising of 1911.
An extensive mashup with info on the events on 16 June 1976; Youth and the National Liberation Struggle 1894–1994, South African History Online; The June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising, South African History Online; The June 16 Soweto students' uprising – as it happened, South Africa Gateway; Helena Pohlandt-McCormick. "I Saw a Nightmare…"
The Christian holidays of Christmas Day and Good Friday remained in secular post-apartheid South Africa's calendar of public holidays. The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission), a chapter nine institution established in 2004, held countrywide consultative public hearings in June and July 2012 to ...
March 15. World Consumer Rights Day. March 16. National Corn Dog Day. March 17. Evacuation Day. Saint Patrick's Day. World Sleep Day. March 18. National Biodiesel Day. Awkward Moments Day. March 19.
Zolile Hector Pieterson (19 August 1963 – 16 June 1976) was a South African schoolboy who was shot and killed at the age of 12 during the Soweto uprising in 1976, when the police opened fire on black students protesting the enforcement of teaching in Afrikaans, mostly spoken by the white and coloured population in South Africa, as the medium of instruction for all school subjects.
March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 290 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 934 – ...
June 16 is the 167th day of the year ... A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, ... Youth Day (South Africa) References
St. Patrick's Day marks the day Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, died in 461, but many of the lively traditions we know today began with Irish Americans.