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Many Anguillans strenuously objected to the continuing political subservience to Saint Kitts, and on 30 May ( known as Anguilla Day ), the Saint Kitts police were evicted from the island.

Anguilla was first colonised by English settlers from Saint Kitts, beginning in 1650.

The European eel ( Anguilla anguilla ) was the one most familiar to Western scientists, beginning with Aristotle who did the first known research on eels.

Music institutions in Anguilla include the Soroptimist Club and the annual Tranquility Jazz Festival, though the island's most famous music celebration is Carnival, held near the beginning of August ( the first Friday after the first Monday ); it includes calypso competitions, j ' ouvert, street dances, boat races, costumed parades and stilt walking, and beachside barbecues.

* Anguilla: In addition to commemorating emancipation, it is the first day of " August Week ", the Anguillian Carnival celebrations.

In December 1967, two members of Britain's Parliament worked out an interim agreement by which for one year a British official would exercise basic administrative authority along with the Anguilla Council.

* 1967 4 September-first stamps of Anguilla

The regular defence force did not come into being however until 1967, when it was decided that a regular army was needed following public disturbances on the island of Anguilla, which was attempting to secede from its federation with Saint Kitts and Nevis, and the determination that the existing volunteer force was not adequately trained to deal with the situation.

Anguilla was administered as part of the St Kitts-Nevis group but this was strongly resisted and Britain had to quell an independence movement in 1967.

This article is about communications systems in Anguilla.

*. ai, the ISO Internet 2-letter country code ( ccTLD ) for Anguilla

Beginning in 2008 there was a mass exodus of captives for better staffed jurisdictions like Anguilla.

On 5 December 1717 Teach stopped the merchant sloop Margaret off the coast of Crab Island, near Anguilla.

Before, Anguilla ( 1631 – 1650 ), the present-day British Virgin Islands ( 1612 – 1672 ), St. Croix and Tobago had also been Dutch.

Lackey was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania and has also lived throughout the US and Europe, Anguilla, Sealand, Dubai, and Iraq.

In 1999 Lackey lived in the San Francisco Bay Area after a period in Anguilla before moving to the unrecognized state of Sealand off the coast of the United Kingdom and establishing HavenCo.

In 1806, the Leeward Islands Caribee government was split into two groups, with Antigua, Barbuda, Redonda and Montserrat in one group, and St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands in the other.

In 1883, St. Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla were linked under one " presidency ," based in St. Kitts.

Both Nevis and Anguilla disliked the union, as they had previously had their separate presidencies.

In the same year Anguilla had a major secession movement supported by St. Kitts political opposition party, The People's Action Movement ( PAM ).

Anguilla was able to successfully break away from the union in 1971.

After the second failure, the United Kingdom and the six windward and leeward islands — Grenada, St. Vincent, Dominica, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis and Anguilla, and St. Lucia — developed a novel form of cooperation called associated statehood.

In 1883 St. Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla were all linked under one presidency, located on St. Kitts, to the dismay of the Nevisians and Anguillans.

All Souls ' Day commemorates the faithful departed.

* National Day, commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit in 1291.

* On Saint Nicholas Day ( 6 December ), the Niklasmarkt ( Nicholas Market ) commemorates the Niklasspende, a medieval foundation for the poor.

* Independence Day, commemorates the Treaty of Rawalpindi in 1919, granting independence from Britain.

By local tradition, this commemorates the date the news of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of Huguenots reached Geneva.

The feast of the Annunciation ( which commemorates the virginal conception and the Incarnation of Jesus ) is celebrated on 25 March, nine months before Christmas Day.

The Memorial Day also commemorates fallen civilians, slain by acts of hostile terrorism.

* 1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots ' Victory Day.

* Coronation Day, commemorates the coronation of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 1950.

* Independence Day, commemorates the day of the First Republic in 1918.

* Youth Day ( Republic of China ), commemorates Huanghuagang Uprising

** Independence Day, commemorates the anniversary of Poland's assumption of independent statehood in 1918 ( Poland )

* Independence Day, commemorates the proclamation of Cuba ' independence from Spain and the beginning of the Ten Years ' War in 1868.

** V-E Day ( Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders ) commemorates the end of WWII in Europe, with the final surrender being to the Soviets in Berlin, attended by representatives of the Western Powers.

Cinco de mayo is not Mexico's " Independence Day ", but rather commemorates an initial victory of Mexican forces over French forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.

* July 18 – King Edward I of England orders all Jews ( then numbering around 16, 000 ) to leave England by November 1 ( All Saints Day ); on the Hebrew calendar this is Tisha B ' Av, a day that commemorates many calamities.

Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is a holiday in the United States that commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U. S. State of Texas in 1865.

The Israeli Chief Rabbinate also declared a religious holiday on the anniversary, called " Yom Yerushalayim " ( Jerusalem Day ), which also became a national holiday that commemorates the reunification of the city.

Another local festival commemorates The Vote Day ( January 14 ), an event during the Black Plague, when the townsfolk voted for the bringing of the Virgin of the Olive across the town to worship her.

Armistice Day ( which overlaps with Remembrance Day ) is on 11 November and commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o ' clock in the morning — the " eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month " of 1918.

To celebrate its distinction as the birthplace of James H. Kyle, Cedarville commemorates Labor Day with CedarFest, an annual festival including a parade, a performance by the Cedarville High School Marching Band, pancake breakfast at the fire station, carnival games and rides, and exhibitions of local cuisine.