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The following is a list of notable month-long observances, recurrent months that are used by various governments, groups and organizations to raise awareness of an issue, commemorate a group or event, or celebrate something.
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
In California, Filipino American History Month was first recognized statewide in 2006, when the California Department of Education placed it on its celebrations calendar. [11] In 2009, California State Senator Leland Yee introduced a resolution, which was passed, that recognizes October as Filipino American History Month. [12]
The first commemorative month was the US Black History Month, which first was commemorated at Kent State University from January 2 to February 28, 1970, [2] and recognized by President Gerald Ford in 1976, during the celebration of the United States Bicentennial. [3] The observance had begun at a smaller scale in 1926 as "Negro History Week".
But maybe wait another month. During the March-through-August nesting season, that island sees enough swooping, shrieking, pooping seabirds to trouble Alfred Hitchcock’s dreams. September: Hike ...
John W. Dwinelle led a group of prominent Californian intellectuals in founding the society at Santa Clara University in June 1871.. The California Historical Society was founded in June 1871 by a group of prominent Californian politicians and professors at the Santa Clara University (then the College of Santa Clara), led by Californian Assemblyman John W. Dwinelle (an influential founder of ...
Then a group of women in Santa Rosa, California, took matters into their own hands. Led by a Santa Rosa teacher, an educational task force planned a "Women’s History Week" celebration in 1978 ...
Hebrew calendar: 5302–5303: Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat: 1598–1599 - Shaka Samvat: 1463–1464 - Kali Yuga: 4642–4643: Holocene calendar: 11542: Igbo calendar: 542–543: Iranian calendar: 920–921: Islamic calendar: 948–949: Japanese calendar: Tenbun 11 (天文11年) Javanese calendar: 1460–1461: Julian calendar: 1542 MDXLII ...