International Youth Day was established by the UN General Assembly on December 17, 1999 on the proposal of the World Conference of Ministers of Youth held in Lisbon on August 8-12, 1998. Resolution No. 54/120.
The Conference recommended the organization of promotional activities in support of the Day in order to raise awareness, especially among young people, of the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond, adopted by the Assembly in 1995.
They pray to St. Panteleimon for good health and a cure for all diseases. The saint is considered the patron saint of doctors and the sick, so on the day of Panteleimon they go to the temple and light a candle for the wounded - the saint is able to heal even the most seriously ill.
On August 6, the whole world remembers the victims of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima. 78 years ago, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb called Little Boy on this city. Hiroshima was destroyed. Approximately 80,000 residents died immediately in the attack, and tens of thousands more gradually died in the hospital from the effects of radiation.
August 6 is the International Day of Forgiveness. The date is for the year 2023. It is celebrated on the first Sunday of August.
These August events of the first decade of the month have a traditional annual character.
International Forgiveness Day was initiated by the World Forgiveness Alliance, a non-denominational educational foundation. According to their website, "International Forgiveness Day is dedicated to awakening the healing power of forgiveness around the world." The founder is Robert W. Plath of Mill Valley, California.
Guy de Maupassant was a French writer whose work was in touch with naturalism. The man managed to make a fortune from literature. Insatiable in love, he turned most women into characters in short stories, novels and novellas. He was also a keen traveler, having toured Europe and visited remote corners of the world.
Bernard Shaw was a famous Irish dramatist, novelist, and Ireland's most famous literary figure. In 1925 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1939 he was awarded an Oscar for the screenplay for Pygmalion.
Before becoming a brilliant, unique, and wise connoisseur of human nature, Bernard Shaw had a difficult journey. He was rejected sixty times by various publishers, he was told to do other things and not to take time away from busy people, but Shaw stubbornly pursued his goal, and still became a writer, and what a one! It was he who created the theatrical genre, called the drama-discussion. In his works there is a struggle of hostile ideologies, the author analyzes the social and ethical problems.
