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2011 Event - St. Patrick's Day parates are celebrated internationally

2010 Event - The works of thirty celebrated Iranian artists go on sale at Bonhams auction house in Dubai

1994 Event - Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding

1993 Event - Prince celebrated his birthday by changing his name to a symbol

1984 Event - Donald Ducks 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland

1977 Event - Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks

1970 Event - Flat Earth celebrated

1965 Event - Lava Lamp Day celebrated

1948 Event - 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow

1947 Event - Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium and through out United States

1945 Event - Brotherhood Day 1st celebrated

1943 Birthday - Albert Lee, born in Leominster, Herefordshire, Grammy-award winning English guitarist, musical director, celebrated finger-style and hybrid picking technique, played with the Crickets

1943 Birthday - Bobby Keyes, born in Slaton, Texas, musician, saxophone player, played with Bobby Vee, Buddy Holly, The Rolling Stones, celebrated recording "Return to Sender", "Brown Sugar"

1935 Birthday - Arvo Part, born in Paide, Estonia, classical composer, celebrated for minimalist style, influenced by European jazz, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Bartok

1934 Event - Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Texas)

1933 Event - World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated

1931 Event - 1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students

1929 Birthday - Hugh Tayfield, cricketer, celebrated South African off-spinner 1949-60

1926 Birthday - Bill Justis, born in Birmingham, Alabama, musician, musical arranger, rock and roll pioneer, celebrated for Grammy Hall of Fame song "Raunchy" and Australian hit "Tamoure"

1922 Event - World Law Day, 1st celebrated

1921 Birthday - H. C. Artmann, born in Vienna, Australia, born Hans Carl Artmann, also known as Ib Hansen, writer, poet, celebrated for his early Viennese poems

1916 Event - 1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians

1910 Birthday - Cao Yu, born in China, born Wan Jiabao, playwright, dramatist, celebrated for Thunderstorm, Sunrise, and Peking Man, responsible for spoken theater in 20th century Chinese literature

1910 Event - Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)

1909 Birthday - Bukka White, born in Houston, Mississippi, Booker T. Washington White, gave cousin B.B. King his first guitar, celebrated as National steel guitarist, wrote "Parchman Farm Blues"

1902 Event - Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain

1901 Birthday - George Keyt, born in Sri Lanka, artist, modern painter, cubist style, influenced by Henri Matisse, celebrated for line drawing translation of Gita Govinda into English and Sinhalese

1891 Death - Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, with William Quan Judge, Henry Steel Olcott, believed all inner religious teachings are true, dies, date of death celebrated by Theosophists, who call it, Whilte Lotus Day

1872 Event - Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22

1865 Event - Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

1804 Event - Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape

1792 Event - Columbus Day is 1st celebrated

1756 Event - St. Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in New York City at Crown and Thistle Tavern

1732 Event - 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, Philadelphia

1732 Event - Mass celebrated for 1st time at St. Joseph's Church in Philadelphia

1692 Event - Royal Hospital Founders Day 1st celebrated

352 Event - 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th

337 Event - Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th

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