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Proclamation Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (108 words) |
 | Proclamation Day is the South Australian public holiday that celebrates the proclamation of South Australia as a British province. |
| The proclamation included the same protection under the law for the local native population as for the settlers. |
| Proclamation Day also refers to October 21, 1890, the day that responsible government was proclaimed in Western Australia. |
| Mother's day (USA) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (755 words) |
| Mother's Day in the United States was first proclaimed in 1870 in Boston by Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation, and Howe called for it to be observed each year nationally in 1872. |
| In 1907, Mother's Day was first celebrated in a small, private way by Anna Jarvis in Grafton, West Virginia, to commemorate the anniversary of her mother's death two years earlier on 9 May 1905. |
| A proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day was signed by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson on 14 May 1914. |
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