It commemorates the sectarian murder of my paternal grandfather's brother, who was beaten and stabbed to death by a loyalist mob very close by during the Troubles.
The Garden of Remembrance commemorates those who died in the 1916 Easter Rising and later the War of Independence against the British.
The makeshift shrine to Sadiq Adebiyi is slowly decaying just yards down the road from the beautiful wall-mounted mosaic that commemorates Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian electrician who was killed in the brutal efficiency of a chain of police errors in the wake of the failed 21 July bombings in 2005.
Serb nationalists regard Kosovo as the birthplace of their culture, and the most important date in the Serb nationalist calendar commemorates the loss of a 1389 battle to the Ottomans in Kosovo, seen as the beginning of the end for greater Serbia.
Outside the grounds there's a sculpture that commemorates the day, built in 2012 to mark 50 years of Ugandan independence.
Just below the amphitheatre a bronze sculpture of a horse and two men commemorates the first world war, while two vintage artillery guns point to the horizon.
But seemingly with an eye to the history books, he went for broke on Sunday: Labour Day commemorates the start of strikes and unrest in 1938, which left 46 dead and 429 injured.The standoff could be resolved peacefully, as Mr Coke's lawyers are reportedly talking to American officials.
It commemorates all of the Nazis' victims, not just Jews, and marks the loss of Hungarian sovereignty, as referred to in the new constitution.
Part revolution and part ritual, "Red April" commemorates the killing 11 years ago of 19 landless protestors by police in the Amazonian state of Pará and promotes the martyrs' cause, the redistribution of land.But nowadays much of the activism seems to have little to do with land reform.
A statue of him is displayed at the prison in the north-eastern city of Dalian where he was held, now a museum, and Harbin station commemorates the site of the shooting too.
The plaque commemorates victims of 1956: not those killed fighting Soviet tanks or hanged after the revolution was crushed.
