November 18th, 2009
International Students Day celebrates student activism, though sometimes the holiday is used as a celebration of multicultural students. The date was chosen to commemorate the Nov. 17, 1939 storming of Prague University by Nazi soldiers where nine students were killed over 1200 students sent to concentration camps, and the closing of all Czech universities and colleges. There has been a movement to try and get the United Nations to adopt this holiday, but for now it is celebrated independently by individual colleges and universities. Amnesty International has held events in the past.
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