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The National Day of Mourning protest is held annually at Cole's Hill and is attended by several hundred participants. [ 9 ] [ 4 ] Estimates of attendance in 2021 range from 1,000 – 2,000. [ 10 ] Frank James' son Roland Moonanum James continued to be involved in the event until his death in December 2020 [ 11 ] [ 2 ] , and Frank's ...
National Day of Mourning (Bangladesh), held 15 August. In 1975 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed by a group of army personnel, along with his family. Circassian Day of Mourning, held May 21, commemorating the Circassian genocide and the Circassian defeat in the Russian-Circassian War; Day of Mourning (Australia), annual protest of Aboriginal and ...
John Thomas Patten (27 March 1905 – 12 October 1957) was an Aboriginal Australian civil rights activist and journalist. He was a co-founder of the Aborigines Progressive Association and led some of the first organised Aboriginal protests, including the Day of Mourning in 1938 and the Cummeragunja walk-off of 1939.
The Day of Mourning was a protest held by Aboriginal Australians on 26 January 1938, the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet and the British colonisation of Australia. It was held to draw attention to the poor treatment of Aboriginal people and entrenched racial discrimination.
The Australian Hall is a heritage-listed community building located at 150–152 Elizabeth Street, in the Sydney central business district, in New South Wales, Australia.. It was the site of the Day of Mourning protests by Aboriginal Australians on 26 January 19
The whole article focuses rather too narrowly on this one specific "National Day of Mourning" without reference to the institution of a national day of mourning, or national days of mourning due to other circumstances, e.g. the death of heads of state, or large-scale accidents. Burschik 15:36, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The AFL–CIO declared a day of mourning in 1989 and a "workers' Memorial Day" is observed in over 100 countries. 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 ...
July 9 is the day of mourning. [479] [480] [481] Nepal: July 9 is the day of mourning. [482] [483] Sri Lanka: July 12 is the day of mourning. [484] Taiwan [485] Angola: 7 Death of former President José Eduardo dos Santos: Initially 5 days of mourning. State flags were lowered to half-mast and public events canceled. [486] [487] Mozambique: 5 ...