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Anniversaries 2008

Anniversaries 2008

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During the 2008-2009 biennium, UNESCO was associated with the celebration of 67 anniversaries proposed by Member States and approved by the 34th session of the General Conference (November 2007), in accordance with the selection criteria, adopted by the Executive Board (Decision 7.5 of the 159th session, May 2000), for such association.

The following list presents the celebrations for 2008 (2009 also available).

850th anniversary of the death of Abu-l-Majd Majdud Sana’i of Ghazna, poet and philosopher (circa 1080-1158) 2008
Supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran
 150th anniversary of active life of Sayyed Jamal-ud-Din Afghani, philosopher (1858) 2008
Supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran
 100th anniversary of the birth of Atahualpa Yupanqui, music composer (1908- 1992) 2008
2008: 100th anniversary of the birth of Victor Hambardzumyan, astronomer and astrophysicist (1908-1996) 2008
Supported by the Russian Federation
 100th anniversary of the birth of William Saroyan, writer (1908-1981) 2008
100th anniversary of the first opera in the East: “Leyli and Majnun” (1908) 2008
100th anniversary of Musa Aliyev, geologist (1908-1985) 2008
100th anniversary of the birth of Mir Jalal Pashayev, writer (1908-1978) 2008
100th anniversary of the birth of Ebrahim al-Arrayed, poet (1908-2002) 2008
600th anniversary of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha/Białowieża Forest Reserve 2008
200th anniversary of the birth of Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich, poet, playwright and actor (1808-1884) 2008
100th anniversary of the death of King Toffa I (1874-1908) 2008
100th anniversary of the birth of Lubomir Krastanov, scientist (1908-1977) 2008
100th anniversary of the birth of Rostislav Kaishev, scientist and linguist (1908- 2002) 2008
100th anniversary of the birth of Marin Goleminov, musician (1908-2000) 2008
50th anniversary of the intellectual career of professor Joseph Ki-Zerbo (1922- 2006) 2008
50th anniversary of the intellectual career of Georges Niangoran-Bouah, ethnosociologist/anthropologist (1935-2002) 2008
500th anniversary of the birth of Marin Držić, playwright and lyricist (1508-1567) 2008
100th anniversary of the death of Josef Hlávka, architect (1831-1908) 2008
Supported by Austria
 1000th anniversary of the foundation of the Harar Jugol – the Fortified Historic Town – and the celebration of the Ethiopian Millennium 2008
100th anniversary of the death of Henri Becquerel, physicist (1852-1908) 2008
100th anniversary of the birth of Olivier Messiaen, composer (1908-1992) 2008
150th anniversary of the birth of Emile Durkheim, sociologist (1858-1917) 2008
150th anniversary of the birth of Max Planck, physicist (1858-1947) 2008
950th anniversary of the birth of Imam Mohammad Ghazali, philosopher (1058- 1111) 2008
150th anniversary of the birth of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, linguist (1858-1922) 2008
400th anniversary of the birth of Evangelista Torricelli, scientist (1608-1647) 2008
100th anniversary of the birth of Cesare Pavese, writer (1908-1950) 2008
500th anniversary of the birth of Andrea Palladio, architect (1508-1580) 2008
500th anniversary of the epos “Kyz Zhibek” (1508) 2008
50th anniversary of Al Arabi Magazine (1958) 2008
100th anniversary of the creation of the University of the Philippines (1908) 2008
200th anniversary of the birth of the Orthodox Archbishop Andrei Şaguna (1808- 1873) 2008
100th anniversary of the birth of Şerban Ţiţeica, physicist and educationalist (1908-1986) 2008
300th anniversary of the death of Nicolae Spătaru Milescu, diplomat, philologist, philosopher, geographer, ethnographer, theologian and writer (1636-1708) 2008
Supported by the Republic of Moldova
 100th anniversary of the birth of Lev D. Landau, physicist (1908-1968) 2008
100th anniversary of the birth of Eugen Suchoň, music composer (1908-1993) 2008
500th anniversary of the birth of Primož Trubar, ecclesiastic and writer (1508- 1586) 2008
1150th anniversary of the birth of Abu Abdullah Rudaki, poet (858-941) 2008
Supported by Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Kazakhstan
 200th anniversary of His Royal Highness Krom Luang Wongsa Dhiraj Snid, scholar and poet (1808-1871) 2008
1000th anniversary of the birth of Kasgarli Mahmud, linguist (1008-1101) 2008
100th anniversary of the birth of Maria Primachenko, painter (1908-1997) 2008
400th anniversary of the birth of John Milton, poet (1608-1674) 2008
2200th anniversary of the foundation of the city of Tashkent 2008
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