It was the origin of the Xerox copier, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year.

SANTIAGO Chile celebrated 200 years of independence in 2010.

Did you celebrate the solstice? Please tell us how in the comments!

Najma from Iraq shares with us how she celebrated Eid Al Adha in this post.

On May 1, 2004, I celebrated EU enlargement with my students.

At the time, the authorities and the public celebrated a determined Belgian resistance that the Germans did not expect.

Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina celebrated its fifth birthday in March.

Two national day celebrations were marked in Kuwait last week one on February 25 and the second on February 26.

In 2001, the Tashkent and Central Asian eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated its 130th anniversary.

In 2002, the Roman Catholic Church celebrated the centenary of the revival of Catholicism in Central Asia.

Talk about positive energy. Last Friday (May 15), El Korba, one of the oldest Cairene districts, celebrated its fifth peace festival.

Relatively young by Bolivian city standards, the city of El Alto celebrates its 30th anniversary on March 6th, 2015.

On March 6, 2009, the city celebrated its 175th anniversary of its inception as the City of Toronto in 1834.

December saw the Evangelical Lutheran community of Uzbekistan celebrate its centenary as the only Lutheran Church in Central Asia.

All India Women's Education Fund Association (AIWEFA) just celebrated its Platinum Jubilee in March 2005.

The play satirizes the fledgling nation by showing that the present is no more a golden age than was the past.

And today Egypt celebrates its former president Hosni Mubarak's journey to prison.

This month, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People commemorated the thirtieth anniversary of its establishment by the General Assembly.

On February 23, Russians celebrate the Day of the Defender of the Fatherland, a rough equivalent of Father s Day but with a militaristic flavor.

August 31 marked the 50th anniversary of Malaysia s Merdeka independence after more than 400 years of colonialism.

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts celebrated the 50th anniversary of Disneyland Park on July 17, and opened Hong Kong Disneyland on September 12.

A few weeks ago, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People commemorated the thirtieth anniversary of its establishment by the General Assembly.

Valentina Tereshkova, the first female Soviet cosmonaut indeed, the first woman to go into space recently celebrated her 70th birthday.

It celebrated a decade of existence on March 14, 2010 and has a user base in the millions for peer to peer file sharing.

It is deeply regrettable that the General Secretary of NLD, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, celebrated her sixtieth birthday under house arrest.

Ms. Heshiki (Japan) said that in March 2004 the Government of Japan had held a symposium on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) with a view to raising public awareness of CRC.

Noting that on 23 July 2007, at its 792nd meeting, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women marked the twenty fifth anniversary of its work,

Thus, the Prince's Palace reflects the history not only of Monaco, but of the family which in 1997 celebrated 700 years of rule from the same palace.

Earlier this month, Israel celebrated its 60th birthday, and President George W. Bush went to Jerusalem to play a leading part in the commemoration.

In 1970, Japan celebrated its own tremendous postwar economic growth with the Osaka Expo, as well as by launching the Bullet Train.

In Lebanon two Christian celebrations took place on April 8, 2012 as churches following the Gregorian calendar celebrated Easter Sunday and churches following the Julian calendar celebrated Palm Sunday.

In Malaysia, farmers' associations celebrated the Year with the launching of the 10 Tonne Club for rice farmers, while the Myanmar International Year of Rice Committee published three books Varieties of Rice, Rice Culture and Rice Research Activities.

The media marked the publication s 60th anniversary with much fanfare, hailing the breakthrough that ushered in the age of genetics, and calling it one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.

Those Parties who celebrated Ozone Day this year are to be commended and all Parties are urged to consider celebrating Ozone Day as a way of promoting awareness both of the ozone regime and of the continuing need for vigilance in our efforts to protect the ozone layer.

I therefore welcome the praiseworthy initiative of those Member States that have already marked this important event or that are preparing to organize events both to honour the memory of all the victims and to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the creation of the United Nations, which, as members know, we shall be commemorating throughout 2005.