World Peace Day
It was suggested in the 1960s to declare September 2, the anniversary of the end of World War II, as an international holiday to be called World Peace Day. However, when this holiday came to be first celebrated beginning in 1981, it was designated as September 21, the day the General Assembly of the United Nations begins its deliberations each year.
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Famous quotes containing the words world, peace and/or day:
“Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
—William Gaddis (b. 1922)
“Hard labor and spare diet they had, and off wooden trenchers, but they had peace and freedom, and the wailing of the tempest in the woods sounded kindlier in their ear than the smooth voice of the prelates, at home, in England.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)