International Students' Day (17th November)

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International Students' Day- a brief overview :


✒️International Students' Day is celebrated every year on November 17 (today). It is observed annually to commemorate the student uprising internationally.The day was first celebrated in London in 1941 by the International Student Organization.
  • Today is reminiscent of events such as the November 17, 1939, massacre of John Oblate and nine student leaders at the end of a student uprising at Charles University in Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia (Europe), and the occupation of Czechoslovakia.
  • The detailing background of the day and why the day was chosen as International day, In 1939 the Nazi authorities in Czechoslovakia (at that time it called the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) suppressed a demonstration in Prague held by students of the Medical Faculty of Charles University. The demonstration was held on the 28th of October to commemorate the anniversary of the independence of the Czechoslovak Republic. During this demonstration the student Jan Opletal was shot and died from wounds on the 11th of November. On the 15th of November his body was meant to be transported from Prague back to his home in Moravia. His funeral procession consisted of thousands of students, who turned this event into an anti-Nazi demonstration. However, this resulted in drastic measures being taken by the Nazis. All Czech higher education institutions were closed down, more than 1,200 students were arrested and sent to concentration camps, and nine students and professors were executed without trial on the 17th of November. 
  • The day was first celebrated in London in 1941 by the International Student Organization.

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- C.Thomas Noble.

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