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The King's Official Birthday is a public holiday in Tuvalu. In Tuvalu, it is usually celebrated on the second Saturday of June every year. [52][53] Tuvaluans celebrate it with church services and prayers, singing "God Save the King" and "Tuvalu mo te Atua", flag hoisting, public speeches, a Royal Salute, and a parade.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., [ 1 ] and often referred to shorthand as MLK Day) is a federal holiday in the United States observed on the third Monday of January each year. King was chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement, which protested racial discrimination in ...
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. A black church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister ...
November 11, 2023 at 9:45 PM. The King celebrates his 75th birthday on Tuesday, just over a year after acceding to the throne. The monarch, who is 14 months into his job as head of state, reaches ...
The King then hosted a party for 400 nurses and midwives, saluting the NHS’s 75th birthday. Gun salutes across the UK marked Charles’s birthday, including a 62-gun salute at Tower Wharf, in ...
The 2023 King's Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 15 Commonwealth realms of King Charles III to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the King's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June. They were announced on 17 ...
Britain’s sovereign didn’t celebrate his 75th birthday with an extravagant soiree or an over-the-top display of pageantry on Tuesday. Instead, he followed his mother’s tradition of marking ...
The date has also changed from 30 to 27 April, which is the actual birthday of Willem-Alexander. [1] On the first King's Day – held on 26 April 2014 because 27 April 2014 was a Sunday – the king visited De Rijp and Amstelveen (originally planned to be visited by Queen Beatrix in 2013, but postponed due to her abdication). [26]