OccasionWise

Since 2000 an annual Car Free Day program has been held, originally as a pan-European day organised under the auspices of the European Commission and later with international extensions — during which a large number of cities around the world are invited to close their centers to cars.
Every September 22, people from around the world [...]

The International Day of Peace is on September 21st of each year and calls for a full day of peace and ceasefire throughout the world.
In this event, the “Peace Bell” is rung at UN Headquarters. The bell is cast from coins donated by children on all continents, and considered a symbol of global solidarity. It [...]

International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by John Baur (”Ol’ Chumbucket”) and Mark Summers (”Cap’n Slappy”), of Corvallis, Oregon, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate. For example, an observer of this holiday would greet [...]

In 2007 the United Nations General Assembly decided to observe 15 September as the International Day of Democracy and invited all member states and organizations to commemorate the day in an appropriate manner that contributes to raising public awareness.
The preamble of the resolution affirmed that:
while democracies share common features, there is no single model of [...]

In the United States, Patriot Day occurs on September 11 of each year, designated in memory of the nearly three thousand who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Yet most Americans refer to the day as “Nine-Eleven (9/11),” “September 11th,” “Nine-one-one,”(to a lesser extent) or some variation thereof.
Initially, the day was called the National [...]

In 1996, the Governor-General, Sir William Deane, issued a proclamation establishing an annual Australian National Flag Day, to be held on 3 September.
Flag Day celebrations had been occurring in Sydney since 1985. They were initiated by the vexillographer John Christian Vaughan to commemorate the first occasion when the Flag was flown in 1901.
On Flag Day, [...]

Spring is one of the four temperate seasons. Spring marks the transition from winter into summer.
Spring is seen as a time of growth, renewal, of new life (both plant and animal) being born. The term is also used more generally as a metaphor for the start of better time.
In the southern hemisphere, the meteorological definition [...]