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World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated annually on 5 June and encourages awareness and action for the protection of the environment. It is supported by many non-governmental org…
World Environment Day (International)
Bessarion of Egypt, also known as Bessarion of Scetis or Bessarion the Great was an Egyptian Christian monk who lived around the 4th to 5th century in Egypt, wandering in the Nitri…
Christian feast day: Bessarion of Egypt
Saint Claudius of Besançon, sometimes called Claude the Thaumaturge, was a priest, monk, abbot, and bishop. A native of Franche-Comté, Claudius became a priest at Besançon and late…
Christian feast day: Claudius of Besançon
Iarlaithe mac Loga, also known as Jarlath, was an Irish priest and scholar from Connacht, remembered as the founder of the monastic School of Tuam and of the Archdiocese of Tuam, o…
Christian feast day: Iarlaithe mac Loga
Ini Kopuria was a Solomon Islands police officer who founded the Melanesian Brotherhood in 1925. He and the Bishop of Melanesia, John Manwaring Steward, formed a band of brothers t…
Christian feast day: Ini Kopuria (Anglican Church of Melanesia, Church of England, Episcopal Church)
Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name…
Christian feast day: Blessed Innocent Guz
Marcellin Joseph Benedict Champagnat, FMS was a French Catholic priest who founded the Marist Brothers, a religious congregation of brothers devoted to Mary and dedicated to educat…
Christian feast day: Marcellin Champagnat
Maria Laura Mainetti was an Italian religious sister of the Sisters of the Cross. Mother superior of a convent in Chiavenna that specialised in helping juvenile delinquents, she wa…
Christian feast day: Blessed Maria Laura Mainetti
Norbert of Xanten, O. Praem, also known as Norbert Gennep, was a German Catholic bishop who was the Archbishop of Magdeburg, founder of the Premonstratensian order of canons regula…
Christian feast day: Norbert
June 5 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 7
Christian feast day: June 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World…
D-Day Invasion Anniversary
Engineer's Day is observed in several countries on various dates of the year.
Engineer's Day in Taiwan
This is a list of public holidays in North Korea. See also the Korean calendar for a list of traditional holidays. As of 2017, the North Korean calendar has 71 official public holi…
Korean Children's Union Foundation Day in North Korea
Memorial Day or Hyeonchungil (Korean: 현충일) is a South Korean public holiday on the sixth day of June by article 2, subparagraph 8. of 'Regulations On Holidays Of Government Offices…
Memorial Day in South Korea
National Day of Sweden is the National Day of Sweden, observed annually as a public holiday on 6 June. Prior to 1983, the day was celebrated only as the Swedish Flag Day. It was of…
National Day of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union and the coronation of King Gustav Vasa
Huntington's disease (HD), also known as Huntington's chorea, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that is usually inherited. It typically presents as a triad of progressive psychi…
National Huntington's Disease Awareness Day in the United States
Queensland Day is officially celebrated on 6 June as the birthday of the Australian state of Queensland.
Queensland Day
UN Russian Language Day is observed annually on June 6. The event was established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2010. UN Russi…
UN Russian Language Day
Anne of Saint Bartholomew was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite and companion to Teresa of Ávila who established new monasteries in France and the Low Countries. Anne sometimes struggl…
Christian feast day: Blessed Anne of Saint Bartholomew
Saint Colmán of Dromore, also known by the pet form Mocholmóc, was a 6th-century Irish saint.
Christian feast day: Colmán of Dromore
Gottschalk, sometimes rendered as Godescalc, was a prince of the Obotrite confederacy from 1043 to 1066. He established a Polabian Slavic kingdom on the Elbe in the mid-11th centur…
Christian feast day: Gottschalk
Landulf of Yariglia was Benedictine Bishop of Asti, Italy.
Christian feast day: Landulf of Yariglia (Asti)
Antonio Maria Gianelli was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Bobbio from 1837 until his death. He was also the founder of the Figlie di Nostra Signora d…
Christian feast day: Antonio Maria Gianelli
Saint Meriasek was a 6th-century Cornish and Breton saint. The legends of his life are known through Beunans Meriasek, a Cornish language play known from a single surviving manuscr…
Christian feast day: Meriasek