International Day of Cooperatives
First Saturday of July. About 12% of humanity belongs to a cooperative — credit unions, farmer co-ops, mutual insurance — quietly forming a parallel economy.
- Category
- Awareness
- Observed in
Switzerlandofficial
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The Shard (pictured) in London was inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 m (1,020 ft), but was surpassed by Moscow's Mercury City Tower four months later.- 2024Keir Starmer is appointed Prime Minister by Charles III, becoming the first Labour prime minister since Gordon Brown in 2010 and the first one to win a general election since Tony Blair at the 2005 general election
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