Global Family Day

Global Family Day, One Day of Peace and Sharing, is celebrated every January 1 in the United States as a global day of peace and sharing. Global Family Day grew out of the United Nations Millennium celebration, "One Day In Peace".

History

Originally supported in the United States by Linda Grover, the efforts to promote the date included a 1996 children's book One Day In Peace, January 1, 2000 by Steve Diamond and Robert Alan Silverstein, which was translated into 22 languages, and a utopian novel Tree Island by Grover herself.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Sullivan, Patricia (27 February 2010). "Linda Grover; worked to note Global Family Day; at 76". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
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