October 2nd. is International Day of Non-Violence and celebrates the birth of which man in 1869?
International Day of Non-Violence at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN. The boxed pictorial cachet design was prepared by the UNPA and was limited to cancellation at UNPA's NY location (not Geneva and Vienna). The UNPA has indicated that all outgoing UNPA mail between 2 and 31 October carried the cachet. International Day of Non-Violence The International Day of Non-Violence is observed on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. This day is referred to in India as "Gandhi Jayanti". In January 2004, Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi had taken a proposal for an International Day of Non-Violence from a Hindi teacher
School Day of Non-violence and Peace Non-violence and Peace, saying in Global Education Magazine: "We can not achieve a sustainable development without a culture of peace". School Day of Non-violence and Peace The School Day of Non-violence and Peace (or DENIP, acronym from Catalan-Balearic: "Dia Escolar de la No-violència i la Pau"), is an observance founded by the Spanish poet "Llorenç Vidal Vidal" in Majorca in 1964 as a starting point and support for a pacifying and non-violent education of a permanent character. Different as the first proposed by the UNESCO "Armistice Day" in 1948, the "School Day of Non-violence and Peace" (DENIP) is observed on