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A stained glass window depicts Saint Patrick dressed in a green robe with a halo about his head, holding a sham rock in his right hand and a staff in his left.
Stained glass window depicting St. Patrick.

Saint Patrick’s Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick ‘the Day
of the Festival of Patrick’), is a religious and cultural
holiday held on 17 March, the traditional death date of
Saint Patrick (c. 385 – c. 461), the foremost patron saint
of
Ireland.

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TODAY IS NATIONAL FREEDOM DAY

National Freedom Day 2023: Wishes, Messages Quotes | News Alta

National Freedom Day is an observance in the United States
that honors President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of a
resolution that proposed the 13th amendment of the
nation’s constitution on February 1, 1865
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On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr.was born in Atlanta,
Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. King received a doctorate
degree in theology and in 1955 helped organize the first major
protest of the African American civil rights movement: the
successful
Montgomery Bus Boycott.

On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for
combating
racial inequality through nonviolent resistance.

In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition
towards
poverty and the Vietnam War.         
    
    
    
    
     
   
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LEADERS OF FOUR NATIONS MEET IN 1919

When Was the World War One Armistice and When Was the Treaty of Versailles Signed? | History Hit
From left: British Prime Minister Lloyd George, Italian
Council President Vittorio Orlando, French Council
President Georges Clemenceau and President
Woodrow Wilson attending the opening day of
the Conference for Peace in Paris.

The day after British Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s
arrival in Paris, he
meets with representatives from the other
Big Four nations—Prime Ministers Georges Clemenceau of
France and Vittorio Orlando of Italy and President
Woodrow
Wilson
of the United States—at the French Foreign Ministry
on the Quai d’Orsay, for the first of what will be more than
100 meetings.

The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 - History

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Leaders of the Peace Conference - Treaty of Versailles 1919
Clemenceau (left) and President Wilson (center).

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