Maldives Edition
World Common Cup Day leads today's complete edition for Maldives.
Daily Edition
Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for tea, coffee, water, juice, and the conversations that begin when someone offers another person a drink.
Not Independence Day (that's July 26) : this is the anniversary of the establishment of the Second Republic in 1968, when the Maldives voted in a referendum to abolish the 853-year-old sultanate and become a republic. The day is observed with official ceremonies and the reminder that the Maldives transitioned from a sultanate to a republic without violence : a rare achievement in postcolonial history. The last sultan, Muhammad Fareed Didi, signed the abdication papers aboard a British ship in Malé harbor and left for exile.
