January 2024: Events and Anniversaries Preview
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Welcome to your akg-images January preview, full of content ideas for the coming months through to April 2024, with albums of supporting images.
Happy New Year to everyone! Best wishes for the year ahead, and we look forward to seeing the wonderful ways in which you use our images this year. In case you missed it, here is our full year of events and anniversaries for 2024.
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Featured Story: Marco Polo - 700th anniversary of the death of the Venetian traveller.
January 2024
1 January: Public Domain Day: see our list of works entering the public domain
7 January: Francis Poulenc - 125th birthday anniversary
7 January: Jozef Israëls - 200th birthday anniversary
8 January: Marco Polo - 700th anniversary of his death
12 January: Jean Beraud - 175th birthday anniversary
13 January: Roland Petit - 100th birthday anniversary
17 January: Al Capone - 125th birthday anniversary
17 January: Michelle Obama - 60th birthday
21 January: Vladimir Lenin - 100th anniversary of his death
23 January: Salvador Dali - 35th anniversary of his death
23 January: Edvard Munch - 80th anniversary of his death
25 January: Burns Night
26 January: Théodore Géricault - 200th anniversary of his death
27 January: Siege of Leningrad ends - 80th anniversary (graphic content)
27 January: Holocaust Memorial Day
27 January: National Storytelling Week
February 2024
1 February: Piet Mondrian - 80th anniversary of his death
3 February: Gertrude Stein - 150th birthday anniversary
3 February: Woodrow Wilson - 100th anniversary of his death
6 February: Ramon Novarro - 125th birthday anniversary
8 February: Fern Andra - 50th anniversary of her death
10 February: Chinese New Year - Year of the Dragon
10 February: Shirley Temple Black - 10th anniversary of her death
12 February: Darwin Day
13 February: Shrove Tuesday
14 February: Valentine's Day
15 February: Sir Ernest Shackleton - 150th birthday anniversary
19 February: Lee Marvin - 100th birthday anniversary
20 February: Gloria Vanderbilt - 100th birthday anniversary
21 February: Dirck van Baburen - 400th anniversary of his death
24 February: Franz Skarbina - 175th birthday anniversary
March 2024
1 March: Women's History Month UK
2 March: World Book Day
2 March: Bedrich Smetana - 200th birthday anniversary
8 March: International Women's Day
9 March: Yuri Gagarin - 90th birthday anniversary
10 March: Mother's Day UK
10 March: Ramadan begins
17 March: St Patrick's Day
22 March: World Water Day
24 March: Harry Houdini - 150th birthday anniversary
25 March: Yehudi Menuhin - 25th anniversary of his death
25 March: Holi Festival
27 March: Sarah Vaughan - 100th birthday anniversary
29 March: Terracotta Army unearthed in Xian, China - 50th anniversary
29 March: Good Friday
31 March: Easter Sunday
31 March: British Summer Time begins - clocks go forward by one hour
April 2024
1 April: April Fool's Day
2 April: Georges Pompidou - 50th anniversary of his death
3 April: Marlon Brando - 100th birthday anniversary
4 April: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating NATO - 75th anniversary
6 April: ABBA win Eurovision Song Contest with "Waterloo" - 50th anniversary
9 April: Frank Lloyd Wright - 65th anniversary of his death
14 April: Louis Sullivan - 100th anniversary of his death
17 April: Peter Doig - 65th birthday
19 April: Lord Byron - 200th anniversary of his death
22 April: Immanuel Kant - 300th birthday anniversary
22 April: Passover begins
22 April: Richard Nixon - 30th anniversary of his death
25 April: ANZAC Day
29 April: Zizi Jeanmaire - 100th birthday anniversary
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