Saint David's Day
Patron saint of Wales (born ~500 AD). Welsh people pin a daffodil or a leek to their lapel โ the leek tradition is older and harder to explain.
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- Saint
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United Kingdom
Also on this day
Full history โNotable ยท 1992
A Bosnian-Serb wedding procession was attacked in Sarajevo, resulting in what is widely considered the first casualty of the Bosnian War.- 2014Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.
- 2008The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections; as a result ten people are killed.
- 2007Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School.