With three fine Russian films in recent months on World War 2, -- `` The House I Live In '', `` The Cranes Are Flying '' and `` Ballad Of A Soldier '' -- we had every right to expect a real Soviet block-buster in `` The Day The War Ended ''.

* World Health Day – April 7

* World Intellectual Property Day ( International )

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

* World Humanitarian Day ( International )

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

* World Autism Awareness Day

* World Konkani Day ( Goa )

Several of ASU's graduate schools also appear among the top of the US News & World Report rankings, including the 30th-ranked W. P. Carey School of Business ( along with its 4th-ranked program in Supply Chain Management and the 15th-ranked program in Information Systems ), the 26th-ranked Sandra Day O ' Connor College of Law, the 43rd-ranked Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering ( including five individual programs ranked in the top 30 ), the 16th-ranked School of Public Affairs, the 26th-ranked Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, the 21st-ranked College of Nursing and Health, and 25th-ranked Healthcare Management.

* World Hemophilia Day ( International )

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.

* World Tapir Day, raises awareness of threatened tapir species

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.

* 1945 – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.

* World Day for Laboratory Animals ( UN recognized )

* World Health Day ( International )

:* Liège celebrates the Bastille Day each year since the end of the First World War, as Liège was decorated by the Légion d ' Honneur for its unexpected resistance during the Battle of Liège.

He announced before the 2007 Cricket World Cup that this would be his last appearance in One Day Internationals.

While typical sports championship parades have been showered with some 50 tons of confetti and shredded paper, the V-J Day parade on August 14 and August 15, 1945 – marking the end of World War II – was covered with 5, 438 tons of paper, based on estimates provided by the New York City Department of Sanitation.

The ICC Cricket World Cup is the premier international championship of men's One Day International ( ODI ) cricket.

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket ( WSC ) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics.

The One Day International playing nations automatically enter the final qualification tournament, the World Cup Qualifier, along with other nations who have qualified through separate competitions.

* World AIDS Day ( December 1 )

* Nyingma Prayer Wheels for World Peace

** Pope Paul VI institutes the World Day of Prayer for Vocations.

** The International World Day of Prayer is held in Assisi, Italy.

His first solo album, A Prayer for the Soul of Layla, received much critical acclaim including Best Contemporary World Music Album at the 1st Annual New Age Voice Music Awards.

Since its first recording in 1910, the choir has earned five gold albums ( two in 1963-The Lord's Prayer and Handel's Messiah, one in 1979-The Joy of Christmas, and two in 1985-The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Sings Christmas Carols and Joy to the World ) and two platinum albums ( in 1991-Hallmark Christmas: Carols of Christmas and 1992-Hallmark Christmas: Celebrate Christmas !).

* 1746-From Boston a call is issued to the Christians of the New World to enter into a seven-year " Concert of Prayer " for missionary work

Lyrics, were written by Harold Adamson ( nominated 5 times for an Oscar )-nephew Bruce Adamson noted, that " Harold wrote several hundred songs for the film industry such hits as Wyatt Earp ; Time on My Hands ; Coming in on A Wing and a Prayer ; Around the World in 80 Days, An Affair to Remember, Sinatra's first Oscar nomination " I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night ," Jean Harlow's last song, Did I Remember ; naming a few " and the lyrics to ' I Love Lucy ' was sung by Desi Arnaz, written for the episode by Harold Adamson " Lucy's Last Birthday ":

The rest of the album contained original songs created by him or members of his family, including " Season's Greetings ", " You're All I Want And Need For Christmas ", " It's Christmas All Over The World ", " Christmas Eve's Blues ", " Something Good This Christmas ", and " The Bethlehem Story ", a rewrite of Burke's own version of The Little Town of Bethlehem story, or The Night Before Christmas .” The final track on the album is " The Christmas Prayer ", a ' thank you ' sermon from Burke, which had been written by Burke in 1980, and released by Savoy Records in 1982 as the flip side to his cover of " Silent Night.

Later that same year, Warwick earned her first RIAA Gold Single for U. S. sales of over one million units for the single " I Say a Little Prayer " ( from her album The Windows of the World ).

The distinctive warble of " Save A Prayer ", the keyboard stabs of " A View to a Kill ", and the string sounds of " Come Undone " and " Ordinary World " are some of his most recognizable creations, as well as the futuristic oscillating synth that characterised Duran Duran's self titled first album.

During and after World War II Peer published songs such as " Deep In The Heart Of Texas " and " You Are My Sunshine " ( sung by Jimmie Davis, covered by Bing Crosby and many others ), " Humpty Dumpty Heart " ( Glenn Miller ), " You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You " ( Russ Morgan ), " The Three Caballeros " ( Andrews Sisters ), " Say A Prayer For The Boys Over There " ( Deanna Durbin ), " I Should Care " and " The Coffee Song " ( both Frank Sinatra ).

Under this heading come the annual celebrations such as the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, and occasional celebrations such as World Youth Day.

Originally to be called the " Like a Prayer World Tour ", Sire Records announced the Blond Ambition World Tour in November 1989, following the success of Madonna's fourth studio album, Like a Prayer, and Madonna's performance of " Express Yourself " at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards-considered as a tour preview.

Her work includes articles for magazines and newspapers around the world ( e. g., Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, The Independent ( UK ), The Irish Times, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The LA Times, La Jornada ( Mexico ), The Review of the International Red Cross, Columbia University ’ s Journal of Politics and Society ) and chapters to numerous books ( e. g., This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman book is the result of the “ This I Believe ” series on National Public Radio ; The Satanic Bible By Caesar 999 ; A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer, edited by Eve Ensler ; Lessons from our Fathers, by Keith McDermott ; Girls Like Us: 40 Extraordinary Women Celebrate Girlhood in Story, Poetry and Song, by Gina Misiroglu ; The Way We Will be 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World ’ s Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half-Century, edited by Mike Wallace ).

In the years preceding the outbreak of World War II Velimirović continuing his campaign for a Serb revival instituted what may be called a Society of Prayer and renewed the ancient custom of Christians gathering together to visit a friend's house for prayer, in that way making Christianity social rather than individualistic and solitary.

In 1986, the first World Day of Prayer for Peace was held in Assisi.

Prayer: The Mightiest Force in the World.

* Prayer, the Mightiest Force in the World.

For instance, the Jesuits used the word Karonhià: ke, the Mohawk name for Sky World, as the word for heaven in the Lord ’ s Prayer in Mohawk.

Bacharach and David hits included " Raindrops Keep Fallin ' on My Head ", " This Guy's in Love with You ", " I'll Never Fall in Love Again ", " Do You Know the Way to San Jose ", " Walk On By ", " What the World Needs Now Is Love ", " I Say a Little Prayer ", "( There's ) Always Something There to Remind Me ", " One Less Bell to Answer ", and " Anyone Who Had a Heart ".

In 2003, Groban performed at the David Foster concert for World Children's Day, singing " The Prayer " with Celine Dion and the finale song, " Aren't They All Our Children?