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The International Energy Agency increases its 2023 forecast for global oil demand to a potential all-time annual high of 102.2 million barrels per day. (AFP via TRT World) Disasters and accidents. 2023 heat waves. 2023 European heat waves. Valencia, Spain, sets a new temperature record of 46.8 °C (116.2 °F) recorded at the Valencia Airport.
1st Month of the Islamic calendar, can be either 29 or 30 days. 1 Muharram August 31, 2019 Islamic New Year: 1-10 Muharram August 31-September 9, 2019 Bibi-Ka-Alam: event held in Hyderabad, India: 2 Muharram September 1, 2019 Shia day of Mourning: Arrival of Imam Hussain in Karbalā, 61 A.H. 3 Muharram September 2, 2019
Circular CL/3494 of 29 July 1998, from the Director-General invited Ministers of Culture to promote the day. [2] The date is significant because, during the night of 22 August to 23 August 1791, on the island of Saint Domingue (now known as Haiti ), an uprising began which set forth events which were a major factor in the abolition of the ...
a) the 15th day of March, in memory of the 1848–49 Revolution and War of Independence, b) the 20th day of August, in memory of the state's founding and its founder King Saint Stephen, c) the 23rd day of October, in memory of the 1956 Revolution and War of Independence. (2) The official state holiday shall be the 20th day of August. Source: [1]
Source: [2] 1 January – New Year's Day; 10 February – Chinese New Year; 25 March – Phagwah; 29 March – Good Friday; 31 March - Easter Sunday; 1 April - Easter Monday; 10 April – Eid al-Fitr; 1 May – Labour Day; 16 June – Eid al-Adha; 1 July – Ketikoti (Emancipation Day – end of slavery) 9 August – Indigenous People's Day
79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. [1] 476 – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic – Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops. 1244 – Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to the Khwarazmiyya.
AD 14 – Agrippa Postumus, maternal grandson of the late Roman emperor Augustus, is mysteriously executed by his guards while in exile.; 636 – Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of the Levant away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
August 2 is the 214th day of the year (215th in leap years) ... British children's author (d. 2023) [18] 1930 – Vali Myers, Australian painter and dancer (d. 2003)