The 4th of January is World Braille Day, as it is the birthday of Louis Braille, the Frenchman who invented the code in 1821. Braille helps to provide equal opportunity for many blind people worldwide. Louis Braille was born in France. At the age of 3, he accidentally became blind. However,...
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, and was published under the considerably longer original title The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of...
International Children's Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children's books. Founded in 1967, the day is observed on or around Hans Christian Andersen's birthday, April 2. During International Children's Book Day there will be a number of...
UN English Language Day is observed annually on April 23. The event was established by the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 2010 to seeking "to celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity as well as to promote equal use of all six of its official...
Internation Harry Potter Day that is also known as The Anniversery of The Battle of Hogwarts was created in memorial to the epic importance of the day that Harry Potter defeated the Dark Lord. In the books the battle takes place on 2 May 1998, in the early hours. The Battle of Hogwarts is the final...
The whole idea is to pretend for the day that you are a traveler from a different time – except that, of course, you can’t actually *tell* people you’re a time traveler, because they’ll think you’re crazy. You must spend the entire day in costume and character. The only rule is that...