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International day of Students – November 17
November 18 , 2017
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- International Students' Day is an international observance of student activism, held annually on November 17.
- The date commemorates the anniversary of the 1939 Nazi storming of the Charles University of Prague after demonstrations against the killing of Jan Opletal and the occupation of Czechoslovakia, and then the Nazi’s executed the nine student leaders, over 1200 students sent to concentration camps, and the closing of all Czech universities and colleges.
- The day was first marked in 1941, by the International Students Council in London.
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