International Human Solidarity Day
UN observance since 2005. Funds the World Solidarity Fund — created to fight poverty in developing countries. Quiet day, big mission.
- Category
- Awareness
- Observed in
Switzerlandofficial
Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2007
Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art before being recovered about three weeks later.- 2024Six people are killed and over 200 are injured when an anti-Islam activist drives a car into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.
- 2024A mass stabbing occurs in a primary school in Zagreb, Croatia, in which a 7-year-old pupil is killed and six more are injured by a knife-wielding 19-year-old male.
- 2022A Vega C rocket carrying two Pléiades Neo satellites fails after liftoff.