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Friendship Day – August 05
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- The first International Friendship Day was proposed in 1958 in Paraguay.
- After the World Friendship Crusade proposed July 30, 1958 as the first Friendship Day, the General Assembly of the United Nations declared this date as the official day of celebrations.
- Following the success of the day in the US, Nane Annan, the wife of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, declared Winnie the Pooh as the global Ambassador of Friendship at the UN in 1998.
- Friendship day celebrations actually take place on different dates across different countries.
- But nowadays, it is celebrated on the first Sunday of August, including India and the US.
- Friendship Day in India is celebrated on the first Sunday in the month of August.
- This year it falls on August 5.
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