Sentence examples for first commemoration from inspiring English sources

The country's first post-Soviet president, Leonid Kravchuk, called the first commemoration ceremony in 1993, and his successor, Leonid Kuchma, called for governments worldwide to recognise it as genocide in 2003.

"This will be a different approach entirely".In this section The new man's daunting challenge Another hard man Still an awkward relationship Catastrophe looms What a job ReprintsA ceremony was recently held in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, to honour John XXIII, which organisers said was the first commemoration there of a non-Jew.

As a history buff, I like browsing through old newspapers (not to mention archives) seeking links to the present, which led me to dust off the Times' editorial from Memorial Day 1919 - the first commemoration following the end of World War One.

International Day of the Child One of the highlights of her visit was the participation in Burundi's first commemoration of the International Day of the Child on 1 June, during which she lit a candle in support of the survival of all Burundian children born in 2009.

Meline Toumani's puzzling and sometimes maddening first book There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia and Beyond purports to analyze the hatred still separating Armenians and Turks on the eve of the one hundredth commemoration of the Armenian Genocide.

*   *   * Sunday will be the fourth commemoration of Africa Malaria Day since the Abuja Malaria Summit in April 2000.

The very first Memorial Day commemoration occurred on May 1 , 1865

It was the first such commemoration in over a decade, possibly the first since the coup.

Last month, the authorities on the island of Majorca held a memorial for Jews who were burned in the city of Palma in May 1691, in what was the first such commemoration staged by a Spanish regional government.

Modest by the standards of memorial Web sites like Tributes.com — a for-profit company that amasses 80 million obituaries — Mr. Bartlett's site, gayhistory.wikispaces.com, is far from the first AIDS commemoration.

The cable concerns the so-called "history wars", a nationalist campaign which came to the fore last year, but has since dimmed following the rapprochment between Russia and Poland, leading to the first joint commemoration of the Soviet massacre of 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn forests in 1940.