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Important Days and Theme – June 23
International Widows Day:
- The first International Widows Day took place in 2005 and was launched by Lord Loomba.
- It was on that day in 1954 that Shrimati Pushpa Wati Loomba, mother of the foundation’s founder, Lord Loomba, became a widow.
- On 21 December 2010, the United Nations General Assembly formally adopted 23 June as International Widows Day.
United Nations Public Service Day:
- The UN Public Service Day was designated by the United Nations General Assembly’s resolution A/RES/57/277 of 2003.
- It was on that day because the anniversary of the International Labour Organization adopted the Convention on Labour Relations (Public Service), 1978.
Battle of Plassey:
- On this day on 1757, British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.
- The battle ended in 11 hours.
- Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah at Plassey in 1757 and captured Calcutta.
International Olympic Committee Founded on this Day:
- Founded by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894 at the Sorbonne in Paris and Demetrios Vikelas as its first president
- The president of the IOC is Thomas Bach of Germany from 2013.
- Once in four years, IOC organises the modern Olympic Games and Youth Olympic Games (YOG), held in summer and winter.
- The first Summer Olympics was held in Athens, Greece, in 1896;
- the First Winter Olympics was in Chamonix, France, in 1924.
- The first Summer YOG were in Singapore in 2010.
- The first Winter YOG in Innsbruck were in 2012.
- For IOC’s 125th anniversary, “Olympic House” was inaugurated on 23 June 2019.
