nPosted on May 9, 2019
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nPeace and unity in Europe!
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nPeace, prosperity, and partnership!
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nUnited in diversity!
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nEurope Day isn’t actually about peace-after-World-War-II, although Victory in Europe Day and Liberation Day are celebrated on May 8 and 9 in various spots in Europe, commemorating the end of that awful war on the European continent on May 8, 1945.
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nInstead, Europe Day is about the formation of the European Union in 1993. But today is not the anniversary of the start up of the E.U. as we know it today. Instead, today commemorates the “Schuman declaration” on this date in 1950.
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nFrench foreign minister Robert Schuman gave a speech setting out his idea for cooperation in Europe. He suggested creating a European institution that would pool together and manage steel and coal production. A treaty creating this institution was signed less than a year later.
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nAnd this steel-and-coal management institution is the beginning of what has now become the European Union!
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nLike the United Nations, which was set up at the end of WWII, in the fall of 1945, the E.U.’s various cooperative institutions have been created with the hope that war between European nations becomes unthinkable when those nations are working closely together economically and otherwise.
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nAlso on this date:
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nArcheologist Howard Carter’s birthday
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nPeter Pan author J. M. Barrie’s birthday
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nAnniversary of the first laser beam to the moon
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nAnniversary of the first American cartoon
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Birthday of author / illustrator Eleanor Estes
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nnLiberation Day in Guernsey and Jersey
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nAnniversary of the Consecration of Lincoln Cathedral
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