World Bear Day

 

World Bear Day is celebrated on 23 March, every year. It is a special day to celebrate the eight species of bears that include the American black bear, the Asiatic black bear, the brown bear, the giant panda, the polar bear, the sloth bear, the spectacled bear, and the sun bear.

This day is dedicated to raising awareness and appreciation for bears all over the world. It was established in 1992, and has grown in popularity and scope over the years.

Bears are solitary mammals found across North and South America, Europe, and Asia. These creatures can live up to 25 years in the wild but six species are threatened or vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

Bears face habitat loss because of logging, agriculture, and growing human population, melting sea ice, illegal wildlife trade, often for gall bladder, an ingredient used in traditional Chinese medicine.

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Bhagat Singh Martyred in 1931

Bhagat Singh, revolutionary hero of the Indian independence movement, was martyred on 23 March, 1931 in Lahore.

Bhagat Singh attended Dayanand Anglo Vedic High School, which was operated by Arya Samaj (a reform sect of modern Hinduism), and then National College, both located in Lahore. He began to protest British rule in India while still a youth and soon fought for national independence. He also worked as a writer and editor in Amritsar for Punjabi- and Urdu-language newspapers espousing Marxist theories. He is credited with popularizing the catchphrase “Inquilab zindabad” (“Long live the revolution”).

In 1928 Bhagat Singh plotted with others to kill the police chief responsible for the death of Indian writer and politician Lala Lajpat Rai, one of the founders of National College, during a silent march opposing the Simon Commission.  Instead, in a case of mistaken identity, junior officer J.P. Saunders was killed, and Bhagat Singh had to flee Lahore to escape the death penalty. In 1929 he and an associate lobbed a bomb at the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi to protest the implementation of the Defence of India Act and then surrendered. He was hanged at the age of 23 for the murder of Saunders.

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