OccasionWise

Earth Hour was a campaign launched by World Wide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF) and the Sydney Morning Herald, inviting corporations, small businesses, government departments, and individuals in Sydney, Australia to switch their lights and other unnecessary electrical devices off for one hour.
At 8:00pm (local time) on March 29, 2008, millions of people in 24 [...]

Mother’s Day is a day honouring mothers, celebrated on various days in many places around the world. Mothers often receive gifts on this day. It complements Father’s Day, the celebration honouring fathers.
Different countries celebrate Mother’s Day on various days of the year because the day has a number of different origins.

World Tuberculosis Day, falling on 24 March each year, is designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world, causing the deaths of about 1.6 million people each year, mostly in the third world.

Easter is a sacred holiday. Also called Pascha, or Resurrection Day, it is the most important religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. In modern times, it celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, which Christians believe occurred on the third day after his crucifixion some time in the period AD 27 to 33. Many non-religious cultural [...]

World Day for Water, or unofficially World Water Day, occurs each year on March 22, as designated by United Nations General Assembly resolution.
This day was first formally proposed in Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Observance began in 1993 and has grown significantly [...]

In South Africa, Human Rights Day is celebrated on 21 March, in remembrance of the Sharpeville massacre.
Today, poverty prevails as the gravest human rights challenge in the world. Combating poverty, deprivation and exclusion is not a matter of charity, and it does not depend on how rich a country is. By tackling poverty as a [...]

The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on 21 March. On that day, in 1960, police opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid “pass laws”.
Proclaiming the Day in 1966, the United Nations General Assembly called on the international community to [...]

Harmony Day is an event held across Australia on 21 March, coinciding with the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Targeted mainly at primary-school aged children, Harmony Day is an effort to demonstrate the Australian Government’s commitment to promoting community harmony and to addressing issues of racism in Australia.

Good Friday is the Friday before Easter Monday, which is calculated differently in Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity. In Western Christianity, Easter falls on the first Sunday following the Paschal Full Moon (usually the first full moon of spring).
Jesus Christ, having been arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane by the Temple Guards through the guidance [...]

World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD), is on 21 March. On this day, Down syndrome organizations throughout the world organize and participate in events to raise public awareness of Down syndrome.
The date was selected by Down Syndrome International (DSI) to signify the uniqueness of Down syndrome in the triplication (trisomy) of the 21st chromosome and is [...]