May 25·Every year

Africa Day

Marks the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity, now the African Union. A continent-wide observance of Pan-African solidarity, celebrated with festivals from Lagos to Nairobi.

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Notable · 2020

George Floyd, a black American man, was murdered (memorial pictured) during an arrest by a white police officer in Minneapolis, sparking violent riots in the U.S. and other countries where dozens of people were killed and armed militias took control of parts of Seattle and Minneapolis for months.

2018The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
2018Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
2013Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.