We could maybe have a post on each national day, and hopefully someone from that country can present it?
We could maybe have a post on each national day, and hopefully someone from that country can present it?
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In Hungary, 15th March is a public holiday commemorating the ultimately unsuccessful 1848 revolution against the Habsburg rule, similar to the 23rd October memorials of another failed revolution, this time against the Soviets in 1956.
The national day of Hungary however is 20th August, in memory of the first king St Stephen I.
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They kept the mummified right hand of the fella, it's on display in a cathedral dedicated to him, so to this day you can still high five the founding father if you're so inclined.
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I was very confused at first about that weird scoring system. Maybe I should take a nap
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It’s interesting how most of these days are in summer or autumn, hardly any are in winter.
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They are probably mostly anniversaries of important historical events, which tend to occur when the weather is nice.
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Also, TIL UK doesn't have a national day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Day
Historically St Georges Day (April 23rd) has been an English National Day, but not so much in the last 100 years or so. It's not even a public holiday any more. But it's still a reasonably well known thing
There have been some campaigns and stuff to refocus and increase the importance of it, but many (not all) of these have some connotations with the Right and that kind of Nationalism