* International Tartan Day ( Australia and New Zealand )

The Lower North Shore's other main festivals / events include: Tartan Day at Lane Cove, the Guringgai Festival honouring northern Sydney's Aboriginals, the Moocooboola Festival at Hunters Hill, the Mosman Festival, Lane Cove's Cammeraygal Festival, Chinese New Year at Chatswood.

The Tartan has traditionally published an annual joke issue called the " Natrat " ( Tartan spelled backwards ) on April Fool's Day.

Sean Connery at a Tartan Day celebration in Washington D. C. with members of the Air Force Reserve Command | USAF Reserve Pipes and Drums.

Tartan Day is a celebration of Scottish heritage on April 6, the date on which the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320.

In Australasia the similar International Tartan Day is held on July 1, the anniversary of the repeal of the 1747 Act of Proscription that banned the wearing of tartan.

In 1982, under the auspices of the New York Caledonian Club, New York State Governor Hugh Carey, and New York City Mayor Ed Koch declared July 1, 1982, as Tartan Day, a one-time celebration of the 200th anniversary of the repeal of the Act of Proscription of August 12, 1747, the law forbidding Scots to wear tartan.

On March 9, 1986, a ' Tartan Day ' to promote Scottish heritage in Canada, was proposed at a meeting of the Federation of Scottish Clans in Nova Scotia.

Jean Watson, President of Clan Lamont, petitioned provincial legislatures to recognize April 6 as Tartan Day.

The day has been promoted as International Tartan Day in Australia since 1996 and has been formally recognized by many states, but not at national level.

The United States Senate recognized April 6 as Tartan Day in 1998.

The Tartan Day parade of Scottish porteños was inaugurated in Buenos Aires on April 6, 2006 and is organized every year by the Scottish Argentine Society.

* National Tartan Day USA

* New York Tartan Day Site

* National Capital Tartan Day Committee, Inc.

* Minnesota Tartan Day Site

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* Tartan Day ( 6 April ), a celebration of Scottish heritage

Member of the cross-party group in the Scottish Parliament on Tartan Day,

NYC is not the only large city to celebrate Tartan Day, there is also large events that take place in Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, California, Chicago, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Québec, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and throughout Europe.

Tartan Day parade in New York City.

The film was not shown in the United Kingdom after director Larry Clark assaulted Hamish McAlpine, the head of the UK distributor for the film, Metro Tartan.

The Scottish National Liberation Army ( SNLA ), sometimes dubbed the ' Tartan Terrorists ', was a militant group which aimed to bring about Scottish independence from the United Kingdom.

It was released in the United Kingdom on 31 January 2003 through Metro Tartan Distribution, and the United States on 7 March 2003 through Lions Gate Films.

The diced band, popularly known as the Sillitoe Tartan, later spread to police forces in Australia, New Zealand, and the rest of the United Kingdom, as well as to some other parts of the world, notably Chicago.

Popularly known as the ' Sillitoe Tartan ', these black and white chequered cap bands were based on those featured on the military's Glengarry headress, and are now used by almost every police force in the United Kingdom, and a number of other police forces around the world.

The film was released twice on DVD in in the United States ; by Image Entertainment in 1998 and by Tartan Video in 2005.

Newcastle Brown Ale became a brand of Scottish & Newcastle after the merger of Scottish Brewers with Newcastle Breweries in 1960 where it became a flagship brand alongside McEwan's Export and Younger's Tartan Special.

Other artists to have recorded versions include Daniel O ' Donnell, The Chancers, Portland, Frank Patterson, Ronan Tynan, Brush Shiels, James Galway, The Dubliners, Charlie Haden with daughter Petra Haden, Seanchai & The Unity Squad, Scottish band North Sea Gas, Newcastle upon Tyne band, Kelda with vocalist Jack Routledge, Yonkers-based group Shilelagh Law, California punk band No Use for a Name, New Zealanders Hollie Smith and Steve McDonald, Dropkick Murphys, The Durutti Column, by the Canadian group The Tartan Terrors, The High Kings, the Epcot-based band Off Kilter, and by Dr. Kieran Moriarty and friends.

In 1963 Menzies and Co merged with Hamilton based bottlers CL Innes, and L & P took on the Innes Tartan as a motif on the neck of the L & P bottle.

* Senior Girls-Black Blazer, White Blouse, White & Black Tartan Kilt.

* Junior Girls-Brown Blazer, White Blouse, Green & Red Tartan Skirt.

George had been persuaded by Scott that he was not only a Stuart prince, but also a Jacobite Highlander, and could rightly and properly swathe himself in " the garb of old Gaul < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki >", so in July 1822 the King placed his order with George Hunter & Co., outfitters of Tokenhouse Yard, London and Princes Street, Edinburgh, for £ 1, 354 18s ( a sum equivalent to £ today ) worth of highland outfit in bright red Royal Tartan, later known as Royal Stuart, complete with gold chains and assorted weaponry including dirk, sword and pistols.

* Lillian Carter as told to Beth Tartan and Rudy Hayes Miss Lillian and Friends: the Plains, Georgia Family Philosophy and Recipe Book A & W Publishers 1977 ISBN 0-89104-074-9

Between 1960 and 1968 he had continual single and album releases on the Tartan label in Canada.

In 1970, it became the first facility in Canada to have artificial playing surface installed made by 3M, under the brand name " Tartan Turf ".

It was registered at the Court of the Lord Lyon in 1956, making it the first provincial tartan in Canada, and officially adopted by the province in the Nova Scotia Tartan Act of 1963.

For instance, in 2008 the Canadian government registered the Maple Leaf Tartan with the Scottish Tartans Authority under the name Dominion of Canada.

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.

United Nations Day proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., governor

United Nations Day is the birthday of the United Nations, mankind's noblest attempt to establish lasting peace with justice ; ;

Hatfield also is scheduled to hold a public United Nations Day reception in the state capitol on Tuesday.

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

* Arbor Day – last Friday of April in some states in the United States http :// www. arborday. org /

* Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day, usually fourth Thursday ( United States )

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.

* Independence Day of India, celebrates the independence of India from the United Kingdom in 1947.

* Victory over Japan Day ( United States )

* Bennington Battle Day ( Vermont, United States )

* International Youth Day ( United Nations )

* National Aviation Day ( United States )

* Earth Day ( United States ), and its related observances:

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Malaysia from the United Kingdom in 1957.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Trinidad and Tobago from the United Kingdom in 1962.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Zimbabwe from United Kingdom in 1980.

On April 15, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt issued an Arbor Day Proclamation to the School Children of the United States about the importance of trees and that forestry deserves to be taught in our schools.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

In 1914, the founder of the agricultural college at Nanking University suggested to the now-defunct Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry that China should imitate the practice in the United States of Arbor Day.

By the 1920s, each state in the United States had passed public laws that stipulated a certain day to be Arbor Day or Arbor and Bird Day observance.