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On 14 December 1954, a joint resolution by India and Uruguay was passed in the UN General Assembly to encourage all countries to institute a Universal Children's Day, firstly to promote mutual exchange and understanding among children, and secondly to promote the ideals of the UN Charter and the welfare of the world's children. [8]
Armed Forces Day – 13 February 1966 One stamp was issued on this occasion; Value: 15p; Inauguration of 1st Atomic Reactor of Pakistan, Islamabad – 30 April 1966 One stamp was issued on this occasion; Value: 15p; Silver Jubilee of Habib Bank – 25 August 1966 One stamp was issued on this occasion; Value: 15p; Universal Children's Day – 3 ...
While Nehru's birthday (14 November) had publicly been celebrated all over India and among overseas Indians, since the 1940s, [4] [5] [6] with public meetings being organised to pay tribute to him [7] [8] and games for children being held; [9] it was only in 1954 that the day was first celebrated as "Children's Day". [10]
50. “A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.” – Jacob Abbott 51. “To raise a nature-bonded child is to raise a rebel, a dreamer, an innovator… someone who ...
By resolution 836(IX) of 14 December 1954, the General Assembly recommended that all countries institute a Universal Children's Day, to be observed as a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children.
Children's Guide to Knowledge (1957) American version; Modern Children's Library of Knowledge (1957) Modern University Encyclopedia (1957) New Age Encyclopedia, World Atlas and Sports Supplement (1957) Pearson's Everything Within (1957) Pictorial Encyclopedia (1957)
In "Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021" (published by St. Martin's Press), former German Chancellor Angela Merkel writes about two lives: her early years growing up under a Communist-controlled police ...
1959 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, later the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, and is often the day chosen by countries as their designated day to observe Universal Children's Day. 28th. 1966 – The Plowden Report reviews Primary education in England in a wholesale fashion.