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Mass graves in Iraq are characterized as unmarked sites containing at least six bodies. Some can be identified by mounds of earth piled above the ground or as deep pits that appear…
Mass Graves Day (Iraq)
A national day is a day on which celebrations mark the statehood or nationhood of a state or its people. It may be the date of independence, of becoming a republic, of becoming a f…
National Day, declared by Salva Kiir Mayardit (South Sudan)
Teachers' Day is a special day for the appreciation of teachers. It may include celebrations to honor them for their special contributions in a particular field area, or the comm…
Teachers' Day (Malaysia)
Saint Calocerus was a 2nd-century Christian martyr. His alleged "acts" belong to a much later period.
Christian feast day: Calocerus (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Dunstan was an English bishop and Benedictine monk. He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canoni…
Christian feast day: Dunstan (Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church; commemoration, Anglicanism)
Ivo of Kermartin, TOSF, also known as Yvo, Yves, or Ives, was a parish priest among the poor of Louannec, the only one of his station to be canonized in the Middle Ages. He is the …
Christian feast day: Ivo of Kermartin
Crispino da Viterbo - born Pietro Fioretti - was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. Fioretti was an ardent devotee of the Mother of …
Christian feast day: Crispin of Viterbo
Joaquima de Vedruna Vidal de Mas, CCV was a Spanish Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity.
Christian feast day: Joaquina Vedruna de Mas
María Bernarda Bütler, born Verena Bütler, was a Swiss religious sister. She founded the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Sinners and served in the missions in Ecuador…
Christian feast day: Maria Bernarda Bütler
Pope Celestine V, born Pietro Angelerio, also known as Pietro da Morrone, Peter of Morrone, and Peter Celestine, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States for f…
Christian feast day: Peter Celestine
Pudentiana was a Christian virgin and martyr of the second century who refused to worship the Roman Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius as deities. As the eldest daughter o…
Christian feast day: Pudentiana (Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church)
Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name…
Christian feast day: Blessed Umiliana de' Cerchi
May 18 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 20
Christian feast day: May 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
The Greek genocide, which included the Pontic genocide, was the systematic killing of the Christian Ottoman Greek population of Anatolia, which was carried out mainly during World …
Pontian Greek Genocide Remembrance Day (Greece)
The Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day, is an annual Turkish national holiday celebrated on May 19 to commemorate Mustafa Kemal's landing at Samsun on May 19, 1919, whi…
Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day (Turkey, Northern Cyprus)
Remembrance Day, also known as National War Heroes Commemoration Day, is a memorial day observed in Sri Lanka since the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War, which is observed to commem…
Remembrance Day (Sri Lanka)
Hồ Chí Minh, colloquially known as Uncle Ho among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945.…
Hồ Chí Minh's Birthday (Vietnam)
Malcolm X Day is an American holiday in honor of Malcolm X that is celebrated on either May 19 or the third Friday of May. The commemoration of the civil rights leader has been pro…
Malcolm X Day (United States of America)
HIV.gov, formerly known as AIDS.gov, is an internet portal for all United States federal domestic HIV and AIDS resources and information. On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2006, the U…
National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
Hepatitis Testing Day is May 19 in the United States.
Hepatitis Testing Day (United States)
Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family or individual, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on d…
Mother's Day (Kyrgyzstan)
Abercius and Helena are saints of the Catholic church. They are said to have been the children of Alphaeus the Apostle, although this has been challenged by some parties. Both of t…
Christian feast day: Abercius and Helena
Alcuin of York, also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin, was an Anglo-Latin scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the stu…
Christian feast day: Alcuin of York
Aurea of Ostia is venerated as the patron saint of Ostia.
Christian feast day: Aurea of Ostia