National Maritime Day proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

The President of the United States, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of Congress, has issued a proclamation each year since 1933 declaring May 22nd to be National Maritime Day.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

The President of the United States proclaimed the first Sunday in November as `` National Grandmothers' Day '' and urged America to say it with flowers.

* National Healthcare Decisions Day ( US )-April 16

* Liberation Day in Italy-April 25 is a National Holiday that celebrates the end of the Nazi Germany occupation in the Northern Italy.

* The Philippines celebrates National Heroes Day in commemoration of the First Cry of the Philippine Revolution on August 23, 1896.

* National Persian Gulf Day ( Iran )

* Earliest day on which National Heroes ' Day can fall, while August 28 is the latest ; celebrated on the fourth Monday in August.

* National Day, celebrates the independence of Singapore from Malaysia in 1965.

* National Peacekeepers ' Day, celebrated on Sunday closest to the day ( Canada )

* National Women's Day ( South Africa )

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

*** National Acadian Day ( Acadians )

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* National Aviation Day ( United States )

* National Day or Den ' Nezalezhnosti, celebrates the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union in 1991.

* National Day of Mourning, to commemorate workers killed, injured, or suffering illness from occupational hazards and accidents.

* National Heroes Day ( Barbados )

* National Day ( Sardinia )

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* the Pomme d ' Or overlooking Liberation Square in St. Helier, which during the occupation served as the German Navy Headquarters and from whose balcony the Liberation force raised the Union Flag on Liberation Day, 9 May 1945 ;

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* Flag Day ( Peru )

* 1937 – Pennsylvania becomes the first ( and only ) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.

* Flag Day ( United States )

* Flag Day ( Romania )

** Earliest day on which Day of the Finnish Flag can fall, while June 26 is the latest ; celebrated on Saturday of Midsummer's Day ( Finland )

* Flag Day ( Curaçao )