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09-24: September 24. World Environmental Health Day [143] 09-26: September 26 since 2011 (IFEH) [144] World Cassowary Day [145] [146] 09-26: September 26. International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste [147] 09-29: September 29. World Rivers Day [148] 09: Last Sunday of September.
June. African-American Music Appreciation Month [28] [29] ALS Awareness Month (Canada) Caribbean-American Heritage Month [30] LGBT Pride Month. National PTSD Awareness Day [31] National Safety Month [32] National Smile Month (United Kingdom, May and June) Devotion to the Sacred Heart.
On July 25, 1987, President Corazon Aquino promulgated the Administrative Code of the Philippines. [1] Chapter 7 of this code specified a list of ten nationwide regular holidays and two nationwide special days and provided that the President may proclaim any local special day for a particular date, group or place.
Christmas ( Filipino: Pasko; [pɐsˈkɔʔ]) [a] is one of the biggest holidays in the Philippines. As one of the two predominantly Catholic countries in Asia, the Philippines celebrates the world's longest Christmas season (Filipino: Kapaskuhan ); [1] [3] Christmas music is played as early as August. [4]
Annual. First time. April 9, 1961 (as Philippine holiday) The Day of Valor, officially known as Araw ng Kagitingan, is a national observance in the Philippines which commemorates the fall of Bataan to Japanese troops during World War II. The day is officially celebrated every April 9, the start of the Bataan Death March, although the date was ...
October 25, 2020. Double Ninth Festival (Chongyang Festival) 重陽節 / 重阳节. Autumn outing and mountain climbing, some Chinese also visit the graves of their ancestors to pay their respects. 15th day of 10th lunar month. November 29, 2020 [7] Saisiat Festival. 賽夏節. Pas-taai Festival of the Saisiat tribe in Taiwan.
On February 26, 2021, in an effort to stimulate economic recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Duterte signed Proclamation No. 1107 reducing the number of special non-working holidays and declaring November 2, December 24, and December 31 as "special working days" instead.
Independence Day. 3 July. 1944. Nazi Germany. The liberation of Minsk after several years of German occupation in 1944. Two other independence days – 25 March (proclamation of the Belarusian People's Republic in 1918) and 27 July (independence from the Soviet Union in 1990) – are commemorated unofficially.