June 1st International Children's Day

Name : International Children's Day
Date : June 1st
The Children's Day is a festival for children al over the world. In August 1925, representatives from 54 countries gathered together in Geneva, Switzerland, to hold the International Conference for Children's Happiness, and passed a document, Geneva Manifesto for Safeguarding Children. Since this conference, governments of many countries had successively set "Children's Day," to inspire children and make them happy, and also to arouse the whole society's attention and protection for children.
The origin of the international festival was during the World War II. In
June 1942, German Fascists shot about 140 male villagers above 16 years old and al the babies in a village of Czechoslovakia, and took al the women and 90 children to a concentration camp. In order to mourn for al the children who died in this village and all over the world during the anti-Fascist War, the International Democratic Society of Women held a conference of its executive committee in Moscow in November 1949, formally made a resolution that June 1st of every year would be a festival for children all over the world, namely Children's Day.
After the foundation of PRC, the central government regulated in 1949 that June 1st would be the Children's Day of the New China.
Now on June 1st, al the children under the age of 13 have a one-day holiday. In some places, the local government regulates that children's parents can also enjoy the one-day holiday. As "little super stars" of that day, children are usually accompanied by their parents to go to parks, zoos, pleasure grounds, or visit science & technology expositions, museums, and planetariums, or take part in some activities with special topics (such as the contest of Chinese calligraphy and drawings) in children's activity centers. In a word, the children fully enjoy themselves in this festival of their own.