International Sex Workers' Rights Day
Started by a Calcutta sex workers' collective in 2001 after they organized a 25,000-person festival despite government pushback. The red umbrella is the global symbol.
- Category
- Awareness
- Observed in
India
Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2012
Two passenger trains collided near Szczekociny, Poland, resulting in 16 deaths and 58 injuries.- 2013A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 48 people and injured 200 others in a predominantly Shia Muslim area.
- 2005James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. This is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
- 2005Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.