Mardi Gras / Shrove Tuesday
Day before Ash Wednesday, the last day of pre-Lent feasting. In New Orleans it's the climax of Carnival; in the UK it's Pancake Day; in Brazil it caps Carnaval. Same date, wildly different traditions.
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Full history →Notable · 2011
Arab Spring: Bahraini security forces killed four protesters in a pre-dawn raid at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, while the "Day of Rage" took place in Libya with nationwide protests against Muammar Gaddafi's government.- 2016Military vehicles explode outside a Turkish Armed Forces barracks in Ankara, Turkey, killing at least 29 people and injuring 61 others.
- 2015Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti.
- 2011Arab Spring: Libyan protests against Muammar Gaddafi's regime begin.