1 June
International Children's Day is widely celebrated on 1 June. Children's Day had its origin in the World Conference for the Wellbeing of Children in Geneva in 1925.
The 1 June date has a Chinese-USA origin - and nothing to do with Communism. In 1925, the Chinese consul-general in San Francisco gathered a number of Chinese orphans to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. This, of course, coincided with the conference mentioned above. June 1 somehow died out in the USA, only to be revived a couple of years ago. However, each country chooses its own day to commemorate it.
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