International Children's Book Day
Aligned with Hans Christian Andersen's birthday. Read something with pictures; remember why you started reading in the first place.
- Category
- Culture
- Observed in
United Statesofficial
Canadaofficial
Mexicoofficial
Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2015
Six elderly men burgled a safe-deposit facility in Hatton Garden, London, and stole items worth up to an estimated £14 million.- 2025Liberation Day tariffs: U.S. President Donald Trump announces sweeping worldwide tariffs.
- 2024Viertola school shooting: A 12-year-old pupil is killed and two others injured by a shooter of the same age in Vantaa, Finland.
- 2021At least 49 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck accidentally rolls onto the track.