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International Day of the Victims of Forced Disappearances

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1815: Founding of Sisters of Charity by Mary Aikenhead

National Wattle Day

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1991: Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Act passed by Parliament

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Saint Gregory the Great

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Saint Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa)

2013: Convention Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers

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National Threatened Species Day

1936: Death in Hobart Zoo of the last Tasmanian tiger in captivity

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Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

International Literacy Day

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Saint Peter Claver

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World Suicide Prevention Day

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2001: ‘9/11’: Terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington D.C., killing nearly 3,000 people

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1843: Battle of One Tree Hill near Toowoomba, QLD, between Aboriginal landowners and European settlers

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2007: Adoption by the UN of Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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1981: Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Laborem Exercens (‘On Human Work’)

Exaltation of the Holy Cross

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International Day of Democracy

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International Day for Preservation of the Ozone Layer

1993: Death of Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), Aboriginal poet, activist and artist

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Saint Robert Bellarmine

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1961: Death of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld

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1959: Launch of Australian Consumer Association (ACA)

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Migrant and Refugee Sunday

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International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

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Saint Vincent de Paul

1988: Formation of Burma’s National League for Democracy by Aung San Suu Kyi

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1872: Birth of David Unaipon, Aboriginal writer and activist

1983: Death of John Pat in Roebourne Prison WA, prompting the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

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World Maritime Day

Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels

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1975: Ratification by Australia of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

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Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, Doctor of the Church

International Day for Older Persons

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International Day of Non-Violence

1869: Birth of Mahatma Gandhi