Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
2 January – Richard Izard, Hall of Fame industrialist and philanthropist (born 1934). [244] 4 January – Y. P. Reddy, Fijian businessman, co-founder of the Reddy Group (born 1934). [245] 5 January – Mike Cross, rugby union player and administrator, president of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union (1997–1998) (born 1936). [246] 6 January
1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra. 1862 – The first American ironclad warship , the USS Monitor is launched.
2 January: Marshall Islands, President [101] 25 January: Nepal, National Assembly [102] 25 February: Cambodia, Senate [103] 26 February: Hungary, President [104] 9 March: Pakistan, President [105] 27 March: Malta, President [106] 28–29 March: Tunisia, National Council of Regions and Districts [107] 2 April: Pakistan, Senate [108]
Summer is the hottest and brightest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn.At or centred on the summer solstice, daylight hours are the longest and darkness hours are the shortest, with day length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice.
Miss Universe Philippines 2024 was the fifth edition of the Miss Universe Philippines pageant, held at the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay, Philippines, on May 22, 2024. The edition was the first to fully be contested by delegates chosen through local pageants organized by the accredited partners of the pageant.
January – October: 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests. January 1: Croatia adopts the Euro and joins the Schengen Area. January 8: 2023 Brazilian Congress attack. January 19: 2023 French pension reform strikes. February 6: 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes kill nearly 60,000 people. February 21: Cyclone Freddy kills 1,400 in Malawi and Mozambique.
Public holidays and other holidays are non-working days, significant days are working days (unless they fall on a Saturday or Sunday). Public holidays (unlike other holidays) "should remind citizens of the traditions, noble goals and historical twists and turns on which Czech statehood is built". [1] [2]
1654 – Arauco War: A Spanish army is defeated by local Mapuche-Huilliches as it tries to cross Bueno River in Southern Chile. [7]1759 – The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia ...