August 3·Every year

World Capoeira Day

Celebrates Brazil's Afro-Brazilian martial art that blends dance, acrobatics, and music. Born from enslaved Africans' resistance, it's now practised in over 150 countries. UNESCO intangible heritage.

Category: Culture
Observed in: BrazilUnited StatesFrance

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Notable · 2009

The last vessels involved in Taurus 09, a Royal Navy training deployment covering 20,400 miles (32,800 km), returned to HMNB Devonport, England.

2023Worst floods hit major parts of Slovenia.
2019Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
2019Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.