United States Edition
World Careful Driver Day leads today's complete edition for United States.
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 buses, taxis, rideshare cars, delivery vans, trucks, bicycles, scooters, and everyone trusting strangers on the road.
You observe the giant panda in bamboo forests, the Yangtze finless porpoise in rivers, and the Chinese alligator in wetlands across this vast country. You notice that dogs and cats are increasingly popular as pets in urban areas, though many rural families keep chickens, pigs, and ducks. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
The shortest day of the year. In Alaska, this is the day when the sun barely rises. In Fairbanks, the sun is up for 3 hours and 42 minutes. In Utqiagvik (Barrow), the sun does not rise at all. The solstice is the turning point. From here, the days get longer. In every culture, the solstice is the same story: the light comes back.