A diary entry on his 28th birthday, Feb. 22, 1760, reveals a busy day installing a fence around the peach orchard at Mount Vernon, his home in Virginia. As Alexis Coe, a presidential historian and ...

World Radio Day on February 13, 2025, is dedicated to “Radio and Climate Change” to support radio stations in their journalistic coverage of this issue. Despite the recent scarcity of ...

World Braille Day, celebrated since 2019, is observed to raise awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and ...

On June 6, 1944, allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France to fight Nazi Germany The Gory Origins of Valentine's Day (02:50) National Treasure: The Mold Behind the Miracle of ...

As the polls close, listen to your favorite KPFA hosts LIVE from our election watch party at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland, California.

In 2006, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe decided to designate 28 January as Data Protection Day. This day is now celebrated worldwide, under the ...

The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time to remember the six million Jewish ...

The International Day of Clean Energy on 26 January was declared by the General Assembly (resolution A/77/327) as a call to raise awareness and mobilize action for a just and inclusive transition to ...