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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.