International Literacy Day
UNESCO observance since 1967. About 750 million adults globally can't read; this is the day we pretend we didn't know.
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Full history →Notable · 2022
Queen Elizabeth II (pictured) died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland; her eldest son Charles III acceded to the throne as King of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms.- 2025Balçova police station shooting: 4 people, including the perpetrator are killed an attack on a police station in Turkey.
- 2023A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes Morocco, killing nearly 3,000 people and damaging historic sites in Marrakesh.
- 2023The 2023 Rugby World Cup, the tenth men's Rugby World Cup is held in France. The opening ceremony, directed and written by Jean Dujardin, Olivier Ferracci and Nora Matthey, took place at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, before the opening match between France and New Zealand, which saw the host nation winning 27 to 13.