The Flag of Aruba was officially adopted on March 18th 1976, along with the official anthem "Aruba Dushi Tera" composed by Padu del Caribe , Hubert Booi and Rufo Wever. The design of the flag consists of a field of light blue (called "Larkspur" or "U.N. blue"), two narrow parallel horizontal yellow...
On June 7, 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone first saw the forests and valleys of present-day Kentucky. Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734 – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States....
Bastille Day is the name given in English-speaking countries to the French National Day, which is celebrated on the 14th of July each year. It commemorates the 1790 Fete de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the...
The Gion Festival (Gion Matsuri) takes place annually in Kyoto and is one of the most famous festivals in Japan. It goes for the entire month of July and is crowned by a parade, the Yamaboko Junko on July 17 and July 24. It takes its name from Kyoto's Gion district. The word Yamaboko refers to...
On October 24, 1945, the United Nations (UN) came into force when the five permanent members of the security council ratified the charter that had been drawn up earlier that year. These members were: France, the Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. Since...
The Boston Tea Party (referred to in its time simply as 'the destruction of the tea' or by other informal names and not celebrated until half a century later,) was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the tax policy of the...
