More than one million people attended events in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland during the first International Women's Day.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

On March seventeenth, many Irish Americans will eat a traditional meal of corned beef and cabbage to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

"Let me get back to you on that. Oh,oh,oh -- in college, the boyfriend who absolutely forgot Valentine's Day.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

As a result,in nineteen sixty-nine, the church removed Saint Valentine's Day from its official worldwide calendar of Catholic feasts.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

And,Barbados will mark World Alzheimer's Day with events like a religious service, a health fair and performances by musicians.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

And I enjoyed those. The family celebrated Valentine's Day in a little bit bigger way than we do now.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

So on Valentine's Day she might go out to dinner with one of them or babysit for her grandchildren.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

But the popular meaning of Valentine's Day continues to capture hearts around the world, even if not always on February fourteenth.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

This modern festival of African-American culture includes lighting candles each night from December twenty-sixth through New Year's Day.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

She explains that some people in China may celebrate Valentine's Day, but China also has its own version.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

National Woman's Day was first celebrated in the United States on February twenty eighth, nineteen hundred and nine.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

The Smithsonian's Mars Day offered a chance for people of all ages to touch Mars, or at least a piece of it.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

People wear the cut flower on clothing to celebrate special events like birthdays or Mother's Day.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Finally,President Woodrow Wilson signed a resolution in May of nineteen fourteen that officially established Mother's Day.

VOA: special.2009.05.04