July 2009 Calendar - UN Cyberschoolbus

July 2009
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1993-2002 Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons			1 National Holiday of Canada, Burundi, Rwanda INTERNATIONAL DAY OF COOPERATIVES since 1995	2 First Pugwash Conference of Scientists to discuss social responsibility and disarmament, Canada, 1957, founded by Josef Rotblatt, Nobel Peace Prize 1995	3 National Holiday of Belarus At initiative of UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar, Iran and Iraq met to end their war 1990	4 Independence Day United States of America UN Success: Peacekeeping in Yemen unified country, 1963
5 National Holiday of Cape Verde, Venezuela First International Passport invented by Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen, winner of Nobel Peace Prize 1922	6 National Holiday of Comoros, Malawi First nation to ratify UN charter, Nicaragua 1945	7 National Holiday of Solomon Islands Convention on Political Rights of Women came into force 1954	8 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion that use of nuclear weapons is illegal 1996	9 World Youth Assembly opened New York 1970	10 National Holiday of Bahamas 50th anniversary of UN sponsored cease-fire talks between North and South Korea 1951	11 National Holiday of Mongolia UN Agreement on use and control of the moon 1984 WORLD POPULATION DAY
12 National Holiday of Sao Tome and Principe, Kiribati Pioneer of non-violence Henry D. Thoreau, born Concord, Massachusetts, USA, 1817	13 Ole Helge Bakke, first of almost 1600 UN international civil servants to die in UN service, killed in Palestine 1948	14 National Holiday of France First UN peacekeeping in former USSR in S. Ossetia 1992	15 The third World Conference on Women opened in Nairobi, Kenya 1985	16 Secretary-General Kofi Annan presented his plan for reform of UN 1997	17 National Holiday of Iraq Permanent Court of Arbitration 1899 International Criminal Court established, Rome 1998	18 Peacemaking between Mexico and Chiapas rebels achieved by UNSG Kofi Annan 1998
19 Organization of American States (OAS) Human Rights Treaty in force 1977	20 National Holiday of Colombia Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, brought back moon rock to the UN 1969	21 National Holiday of Belgium Dr. GrØ Brundtland from Norway succeeded Dr. Nakajima of Japan as Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) 1998	22 50th anniversary of UN Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons, 1951	23 National Holiday of Egypt First post-World War II summit on disarmament, Geneva 1955	24 First session of Commission on Narcotic Drugs 1947	25 50th anniversary of UN Convention on Refugees, 1951 World Court decision on Icelandic fisheries 1974
26 National Holiday of Liberia, Maldives First World Assembly on Aging met in Vienna 1982, leading to International Year of Older Persons 1999	27 UN Peace accord between North and South Korea signed at Panmunjom 1953	28 National Holiday of Peru USA Senate approved UN Charter 1945	29 Dag Hammarskjöld, second Secretary-General of the United Nations, born in Jönköping, Sweden 1905	30 National Holiday of Vanuatu Famous letter this date from Einstein to Freud probing human instincts for war or peace. Potsdam 1932	31 First major revision of UN Charter added five members to original 10 Security Council 1965

The year 2002
of the Christian Calendar is:

56 in the United Nations era

1380 in the Persian calendar

1422 in the Muslim calendar

2545 in the Buddhist calendar

2754 in the old Roman calendar

5114 in the Mayan cycle

5762 in the Hebrew calendar

4699, the Year of the "Little Dragon" (Snake) in the Chinese calendar

This United Nations Calendar for Peace is a record of many of humankind's efforts to abolish war
and poverty and to establish a world of peace and prosperity for all, on this small planet.

Information for the UN Calendar of Peace 2002 provided
by UNA-USA Connecticut and UNA-UK Westminster, England.

July 2009

1993-2002 Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons