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In December 1990, this day became a national observance in Canada with the passing of the Workers Mourning Day Act, so that on April 28, 1991, it was officially the National Day of Mourning for persons killed or injured in the workplace; making April 28, an official Workers' Mourning Day. [2] [3]
National Day of Mourning (United States protest), an American Indian protest held on the fourth Thursday of November; National Day of Mourning (Canadian observance), held 28 April, a commemoration of workers killed or injured on the job; Nakba Day, annual commemoration of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight on 15 May by Palestinians ...
Workers' Memorial Day, also known as International Workers' Memorial Day or International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured, takes place annually around the world on April 28, an international day of remembrance and action for workers killed, disabled, injured, or made unwell by their work. [1] In Canada, it is commemorated as the National ...
National mourning on April 23, the day of Déby's funeral. [258] Guinea [259] Republic of the Congo [260] Namibia: 1 Death of Joseph Ndeshipanda Kashea, Fillipus Nandenga and Salomon Frederick Gamatham: Three war veterans died in the same period (April 11–14). The day of national mourning was on April 22. [261] [262] Argentina: 3
Even after that first established Thanksgiving in 1789, the dates and months of subsequent Thanksgiving holidays varied. It took almost another century for one clear date to be established.
On previous national days of mourning, like after the deaths of former Presidents George H. W. Bush in 2018 and Gerald Ford in 2006, federal offices and stock markets were closed in the U.S.
For the first time this year, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day were declared on Sept. 30 in Canada to mark the lost children and survivors who were taken from ...
The Huron Feast of the Dead was a mortuary custom of the Wyandot people of what is today central Ontario, Canada, which involved the disinterment of deceased relatives from their initial individual graves followed by their reburial in a final communal grave. A time for both mourning and celebration, the custom became spiritually and culturally ...