Council of Europe Founding Day

5th of May. Council of Europe Founding Day. On this day in 1949, the Treaty of London that later became the Statute of the Council of Europe was signed.

 

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

21st of March. International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, declared by the UN in 1967. On this day in 1960, police opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid ”pass laws”.