His comments have drawn criticism from a number of other authors, such as Michael A. Stackpole, John Scalzi, and David Wellington, and resulted in International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day.

* Celebration of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day

* International Ataxia Awareness Day

* International Jazz Day, organized by UNESCO, first observed in 2012, " is intended to raise awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people.

* International Day of the World's Indigenous People ( International )

* International Lefthanders Day ( International )

* Earliest day on which International Friendship Day can fall, celebrated on the first Sunday of August.

* World Intellectual Property Day ( International )

* International Dance Day ( International )

* International Youth Day ( United Nations )

* World Humanitarian Day ( International )

* International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition ( International )

** Workers Memorial Day ( International )

** World Day for Safety and Health at Work ( International )

** International Mother Earth Day ( International )

* International Children's Book Day

* International Day of the Disappeared ( International )

* World Hemophilia Day ( International )

* International Beer Day

On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops, a day commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.