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January 16·Every year

National Nothing Day

Created by newspaper columnist Harold Pullman Coffin in 1973 as a day where Americans simply do nothing. The irony of celebrating nothing has not diminished in five decades.

Category: Silly
Observed in: United StatesUnited Kingdom

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Notable · 2018

In Mrauk U, Myanmar, police fired into a crowd protesting the ban of an event to mark the anniversary of the end of the Kingdom of Mrauk U, resulting in seven deaths and twelve injuries.

2020The first impeachment of Donald Trump formally moves into its trial phase in the United States Senate.
2020The United States Senate ratifies the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement as a replacement for NAFTA.
2018Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.