This public holiday in Sri Lanka takes place on the full moon day of Vap, the seventh month in the Sinhalese calendar. It usually falls in October in the Western […]
Halloween traces its roots to the pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, which was celebrated on the night of Oct. 31. The ancient Celts believed the dead returned to earth on Samhain […]
Inauguration of Ananda College, Colombo by Colonel Henry Steele Olcott 1886
Inauguration of Nalanda College, Colombo.1925
1957 Soviet Russia launches a dog (Laika) sahitha satellite.
National Day of the Democratic Republic of Germany 1949
World Tsunami Awareness Day is celebrated to create awareness about this deadly disaster which has claimed more than 260,000 lives, surpassing any other natural hazard in the past 100 years. The […]