World Animal Day
The World Animal Day is a global day of action for the protection of animals , the on October 4 is celebrated.
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World Animal Day goes back to a request made by the writer Heinrich Zimmermann in 1924. The first event took place on October 4, 1925 in the Berlin Sports Palace.
From May 12 to 17, 1929, Vienna hosted the International Animal Welfare Congress for the third time, attended by representatives from 152 animal welfare associations from 32 countries. Congress passed a 23-point catalog of demands. Point 23 provided for the introduction of an "animal welfare day".
On May 8, 1931, the time had come. At the International Animal Welfare Congress in Florence the first international "World Animal Welfare Day" was proclaimed on October 4th.
On this day we commemorate Saint Francis of Assisi , who died on the evening of October 3, 1226 (according to the Roman-ancient understanding of the time, the time after sunset was already the following day, i.e. October 4; this is also one of the name days von Franz or Franziskus) and who as the founder of the Franciscan order became famous and popular because of his animal sermons.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b World Animal Day . In: German Animal Welfare Association. Website. No date. Retrieved December 21, 2013.