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.

John Di Massimo has been elected president of the 1961 Columbus Day Celebration Committee, it was announced yesterday.

It has been celebrated as The Emperor's Birthday from 1927 to 1988, then renamed as Greenery Day after Hirohito's death in 1989.

Many states have Arbor Day although only Victoria has Arbor Week, which was suggested by Premier Dick Hamer in the 1980s.

Arbor Day has been observed in Australia since 20 June 1889.

Arbor Day ( 植樹節 ) has been a traditional holiday in the Republic of China since 1927.

The Executive Yuan approved Arbor Day in the spirit of Dr. Sun that year and has since been celebrated on March 12 for this purpose.

Japan celebrates a similarly themed Greenery Day, held on May 4. Although it has a similar theme to Arbor Day, its roots lay in celebration of the birthday of Emperor Hirohito.

Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

Since 1975, Niger has celebrated Arbor Day as part of its Independence Day: 3 August.

Arbor Day in the Philippines has been institutionalized to be observed every June 25 throughout the nation by planting trees and ornamental plants and other forms of relevant activities.

However, the presence of a vigorous population of Celtic lineage, principally of Irish origin, has supported the creation of other celebrations of beer, often for marketing purposes, such as Saint Patrick's Day ( Día de San Patricio ), patron of Ireland, which is celebrated with abundant libations.

Beneath the Arc is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I. Interred here on Armistice Day 1920, it has the first eternal flame lit in Western and Eastern Europe since the Vestal Virgins ' fire was extinguished in the fourth century.

Massachusetts also has a " Day of Rest " statute that provides that all employees are entitled to one day off from work in seven calendar days.

Andersson has written the music to songs recorded by Anders Ekborg (" Han Som Har Vunnit Allt ") and Barbara Dickson (" The Day The Wall Came Tumbling Down ").

A controversial figure, Thackeray has attracted significant attention by making statements expressing admiration for Hitler as an artist and demagogue, while condemning the Holocaust, inciting violence against Muslims, expressing support for the LTTE, and taking strong stances on the aspects of popular culture, including fervent opposition to the celebration of Valentine's Day.

In recent times, it has become customary to invite units from France's allies to the parade ; in 2004 during the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, British troops ( the band of the Royal Marines, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Grenadier Guards and King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ) led the Bastille Day parade in Paris for the first time, with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

The Bastille Day Military Parade is the French military parade that has been held on the morning of 14 July each year in Paris since 1880.

:* Baltimore has a large Bastille Day celebration each year at Petit Louis in the Roland Park area of Baltimore City.

:* Chicago has hosted a variety of Bastille Day celebrations in a number of locations in the city, including Navy Pier and Oz Park.

:* New York City has numerous Bastille Day celebrations each July, including Bastille Day on 60th Street hosted by the French Institute Alliance Française between Fifth and Lexington Avenues on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Bastille Day on Smith Street in Brooklyn, and Bastille Day in Tribeca.

Columbia Records released one single from the project (" Yellow Balloon ") as did the song's writer, Gary Zekley, with The Yellow Balloon, but with legal wrangles scuttling Torrence's Columbia deal and Berry's disapproval of the project, Save for a Rainy Day remained a self-released album on the J & D Record Co. label.

Caupo of Turaida remained an ally of the crusaders until his death in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day in 1217.

The BBC adapted novels such as The Day of the Triffids ( 1981 ), The Invisible Man ( 1984 ), The Nightmare Man ( 1981, from the novel Child of the Vodyanoi ) and The Tripods ( 1984 – 85 ), which however remained unfinished.

On 17 November 1939 ( now marked as International Students ' Day ) the Czech University and all other Czech higher-education institutions were closed for 3 years, but remained closed until the end of the War.

She remained interested in Arthurian legends and jewellery ; in 1358 she appeared at the St George's Day celebrations at Windsor wearing a dress made of silk, silver, 300 rubies, 1800 pearls and a circlet of gold.

The Edict remained unaltered in effect, registered by the parliaments as " fundamental and irrevocable law ," with the exception of the brevets, which had been granted for a period of eight years, and were renewed by Henry in 1606 and in 1611 by Marie de Médecis, who confirmed the Edict within a week of the assassination of Henry, stilling Protestant fears of another St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

On New Year's Day 1940, in the chapel of Mansfield College, Oxford, he married Mary Baldwin who remained his wife until his death.

Convinced by the Canadian Cancer Society that arriving in Ottawa for Canada Day would aid fundraising efforts, he remained in Montreal for a few extra days.

Since 2008, Black Flag has remained a bi-annual 40 page magazine, publishing a May Day edition and one timed for the London Anarchist Bookfair.

Cowan ; arriving on the 28th floor as Martinez, McCoy, Day and Crum remained on the observation deck.

) by townsfolk and other festival goers, As well as a lack of income for the vendors, " Uncle Billy's Day " has remained a free entrance event aside from 2009.

" The ninetein Day of August 1561 Yeirs, betwene seven and eicht Hours Befoirnone, arryved Marie Quene of Scotland, then Wedo, with two Gallies furth of France ... Becaus the Palace of Halyrudehous was not throuchly put in Ordour ( for hir cumming was more suddane then many luiked for ), sche remained in Leyth, till towards the Evening, and then repaired thither ".

He remained relatively quiet, although he spoke publicly on Bastille Day events.

The last defenders of the bunker complex were the French SS volunteers of the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne ( 1st French ), who remained until the early morning of May 2 to prevent the Soviets from capturing the bunker on May Day.

Cooke, opposed to the militant policies of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, remained inside St. Patrick's Cathedral during the 1983 St. Patrick's Day Parade, until the grand marshal, Michael Flannery, had passed by.

The line up of the band during this first and most important ten year phase never changed, and the six original members Shaun Ryder, Paul Ryder, Gary Whelan, Paul Davis, Mark Day and Mark " Bez " Berry remained a tight unit until the first incarnation came to an end in 1994.

Slappy remained in print until August 2005, when Green Day removed its catalog from Lookout!

The United States recorded this date as Friday ( Gregorian ), now known as Alaska Day, whereas the Russian governor, who had remained in New Archangel, would have recorded it as Saturday ( Julian ).

They have remained inactive since a live performance since October 13, 2005 when they opened for Green Day at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco, California.

Though the anthem remained in place during these six months, a new flag was adopted and Rhodesia's national holidays, largely based around colonial figures and milestones, were replaced by alternatives intended to be more inclusive: President's Day, Unity Day and Ancestors Day.

With increased rubber supplies in 1943, the steel-rimmed wheel was phased out from production, yet it remained in service until VE Day.

He secured a pop hit with " Every Day I have to Cry Some " on Buddah Records in 1975, but the success remained short-lived.

In February 1929, he joined the law firm of Lord Day & Lord in New York, and except for periods of public service remained with them until his retirement in 1989.