What do we know about the 9th of December?
On this day, December 9, in Ukraine and around the World:
International Observances and Commemorative Dates:
- International Anti-Corruption Day. Established by the UN on the day the United Nations Convention Against Corruption was signed in 2003.
- International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime. Proclaimed by the UN General Assembly to commemorate the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948.
- International Veterinary Medicine Day.
- Christmas Card Day.
- World Techno Music Day.
Church Dates (according to the New Calendar in Ukrainian Orthodoxy):
- Conception by St. Anne of the Most Holy Theotokos. (The day when the conception of the Virgin Mary traditionally took place).
