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INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY

International Youth Day is an International Observance on August 12 officially recognized by the United Nations .


ANGOLA

On 14 April Angola celebrates Youth Day. [http://www.photius.com/countries/angola/government/angola_government_popular_movement_for~115.html [http://www.aegis.com/news/irin/2004/IR040418.html]


CHINA

Youth Day (青年节) in the in 1919 .


INDIA

Youth Day in India is celebrated on 12 January on the birthday of Swami Vivekananda .


MOROCCO

Youth Day is celebrated on July 9 in Morocco . [http://www.cnn.com/almanac/9807/09/


SOUTH AFRICA

Youth Day on 16 June in South Africa commemorates the start of the Soweto Riots of 1976 , initially sparked by a government edict that all instruction in black schools would be held in Afrikaans . The iconic picture of Hector Pieterson , a black schoolchild shot by the police, brought home to many people within and outside South Africa the brutalities of the Apartheid regime.


TAIWAN

Youth Day (青年節) in the Republic of China is on ''' (文藝節) in the Republic Of China ( Taiwan ).


TURKEY

See Also: Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day


Youth and Sports Day (''Gençlik ve Spor Bayramı'') on May 19 in Turkey is dedicated to the youth. This day is also Atatürk Day (''Atatürk'ü Anma''), a day of commemoration of Kemal Atatürk , the "Father of Turkey", and the commemoration of the beginning of the national liberation movement initiated by Atatürk in 1919

The day is celebrated in honor of the arrival of Kemal Atatürk to Samsun on May 19 , 1919, when the Turkish War Of Independence began.


VENEZUELA

Youth Day is celebrated on , during the Venezuelan War Of Independence , on February 12, 1814 . {Link without Title}


YUGOSLAVIA

Youth Day was celebrated throughout the former passing the baton into Tito's hands: http://www.titoville.com/images/tito-in-stafeta.jpg)


IRAN

Youth Day is celebrated in Iran on 13th Shaban (Hejri Ghamari) on the birthday of Hazrat e Alie Akbar (first son of Imam Hossein ).


SEE ALSO

World Youth Day - observed by the Roman Catholic Church


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