March 2024: Events and Anniversaries Preview
1 March 2024
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Welcome to your akg-images March preview with content ideas for the coming months and albums of supporting images.
A change of season is in the air as we move into spring or autumn, depending on where you are. March also brings us World Wildlife Day, World Tuberculosis Day, and World Water Day. Here are our Easter opening hours for the end of the month.
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AKG6096698 Malcolm X ©akg-images / TT News Agency / TT NYHETSBYRÅN
AKG8243801 “Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose”, by John Singer Sargent ©akg-images
AKG184782 Jubilant people gathering in the streets of New York to celebrate the end of the war: New Yorkers throwing confetti in Mulberry Street in the Italian quarter. August 1945. ©akg-images
March 2024
1 March: Women's History Month UK
2 March: Bedrich Smetana - 200th birthday anniversary
7 March: World Book Day
7 March: Thomas Aquinas - 750th anniversary of his death
8 March: International Women's Day
9 March: Yuri Gagarin - 90th birthday anniversary
10 March: Mother's Day UK
10 March: Ramadan begins
12 March: Yehudi Menuhin - 25th anniversary of his death
14 March: Johann Strauss I - 220th birthday anniversary
17 March: St Patrick's Day
24 March: Harry Houdini - 150th birthday anniversary
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: Eiffel Tower was inaugurated - 135th anniversary
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
6 April: John William Waterhouse - 175th birthday anniversary
7 April: Beginning of the Rwandan Genocide - 30th anniversary (graphic content warning)
7 April: Francis Ford Coppola - 85th birthday
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: Earth Day
22 April: Immanuel Kant - 300th birthday anniversary
22 April: Passover begins
22 April: Richard Nixon - 30th anniversary of his death
25 April: ANZAC Day (Australia and New Zealand)
29 April: Zizi Jeanmaire - 100th birthday anniversary
.jpg "AKG1558054 The Toilet of Venus, by Diego Velázquez. Housed at the National Gallery, London. ©National Gallery Global Limited / akg-images")
May 2024
1 May: May Day / International Worker's Day
4 May: Star Wars Day
5 May: Tyrone Power - 110th birthday anniversary
7 May: Eurovision Song Contest begins
10 May: National Gallery Bicentenary celebrations begin
10 May: Fred Astaire - 125th birthday anniversary
10 May: Katsushika Hokusai - 175th anniversary of his death
10 May: Louis XV of France - 250th anniversary of his death
11 May: Salvador Dali - 120th birthday anniversary
11 May: Jean-Léon Gérôme - 200th birthday anniversary
12 May: Mother's Day (Aus, NZ, USA, Can)
21 May: Henri Rousseau - 180th birthday anniversary
22 May: Mary Cassatt - 180th birthday anniversary
27 May: Jawaharlal Nehru - 60th anniversary of his death
.jpg "AKG9402384 Meryl Streep ©akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio/Archivio GBB")
June 2024
3 June: Franz Kafka - 100th anniversary of his death
5 June: Ronald Reagan - 20th anniversary of his death
6 June: Normandy landings / D-Day (colourised WW2 selection here) - 80th anniversary
6 June Alexander Pushkin - 225th birthday anniversary
6 June: Diego Velazquez - 425th birthday anniversary
8 June: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published - 75th anniversary
11 June: Kosovo War ends - 25th anniversary
12 June: George H W Bush - 100th birthday anniversary
20 June: Summer Solstice
22 June: Meryl Streep - 75th birthday
25 June: Michael Jackson - 15th anniversary of his death
26 June: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin - 200th birthday anniversary
27 June: Giorgio Vasari - 450th anniversary of his death
28 June: assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand - 110th anniversary
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