The United Nations (UN), is an intergovernmental organization responsible for maintaining

international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, achieving
international cooperation, and being a center for harmonizing the actions of nations.It is the
largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental
organization in the world. The UN is headquartered on international territory in New York City;
other main offices are in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna and The Hague.

The UN was established after World War II with the aim of preventing future wars, succeeding
the ineffective League of Nations.On 25 April 1945, 50 governments met in San Francisco for a
conference and started drafting the UN Charter, which was adopted on 25 June 1945 and took
effect on 24 October 1945, when the UN began operations. Pursuant to the Charter, the
organization's objectives include maintaining international peace and security, protecting
human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, promoting sustainable development, and upholding
international law. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; this number grew to 193 in
2011 representing the vast majority of the world's sovereign states.
Bonifacio Day is a national public holiday every 30 November in the Philippines to celebrates
the birthday of one of the country’s greatest heroes, Andrés Bonifacio.

Born on 30 November 1863, Bonifacio is considered as the Father of the Philippine Revolution
against Spanish colonisation. He, along with some others, started a movement known as the
‘Katipunan’ in 1892. The Katipunan was a secret revolutionary society that instigated military
revolts against the Spanish colonisers.

Bonifacio became the Katipunan’s military leader and the president of the revolutionary
government, which (according to some historians) makes Bonifacio the first president of the
Philippine Republic. Bonifacio and the Katipunan recruited many citizens to their cause,
eventually becoming the most prominent revolutionary force the Spaniards had to face.

However Bonifacio’s leadership was contested by some others, and in particular, Emilio
Aguinaldo. After a series of leadership challenges and internal rifts, Aguinaldo violently took
over the revolutionary forces and unjustly ordered Bonifacio to be tried and executed under the
guise of treason.

Bonifacio Day is held every 30 November, or the Monday nearest this day to create a long
weekend. Unlike the main national hero, José Rizal, Bonifacio Day is celebrated on his day of
birth, rather than his day of death. This is because Bonifacio was killed by his fellow
countrymen, rather than at the hands of foreign colonisers.
Rizal Day is a Philippine national holiday commemorating the life and works of José Rizal, a
national hero of the Philippines. It is
celebrated every December 30, the
anniversary of Rizal's 1896 execution at
Bagumbayan (present-day Rizal Park) in
Manila.

Rizal Day was first instituted with a decree

by President Emilio Aguinaldo issued
December 20, 1898 and celebrated
December 30, 1898 as a national day of
mourning for Rizal in Malolos and all victims
of the Spanish colonial rule of the
Philippines. Daet, Camarines Norte was the
first town to follow the decree, building a
monument designed by Lt. Col. Antonio
Sanz, led by Sanz and Lt. Col. Ildefonso
Alegre, and financed by the townsfolk of
Camarines Norte and the rest of the Bicol
Region. Finished in February 1899, the
three-tiered stone pylon inscribing Rizal's
novels Noli Me Tangere and El
Filibusterismo, and Morga, for Antonio de
Morga, author of Sucesos de las islas Filipinas, a book about the early days of the Spanish
colonization in the Philippines.

With the victory of the Americans against the Spaniards in the Spanish–American War, the
Americans took control of the Philippines. In an effort to demonstrate that they were more pro-
Filipino than the Spaniards, the American Governor-General William Howard Taft in 1901
named Rizal a Philippine national hero. A year later, on February 1, 1902, the Philippine
Commission enacted Act No. 345, which made December 30 a public holiday.
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on
December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.
A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is preceded by the season of Advent or the
Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts
twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night; in some traditions, Christmastide includes an
octave. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated religiously
by a majority of Christians, as well as culturally by many non-Christians, and forms an integral
part of the holiday season centered around it.

The traditional Christmas narrative, the Nativity of Jesus, delineated in the New Testament says
that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in accordance with messianic prophecies. When Joseph and
Mary arrived in the city, the inn had no room and so they were offered a stable where the
Christ Child was soon born, with angels proclaiming this news to shepherds who then further
disseminated the information.
New Year's Day, also simply called New Year, is observed on 1 January, the first day of the year
on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar.

In pre-Christian Rome under the Julian calendar, the day was dedicated to Janus, god of
gateways and beginnings, for whom January is also named. As a date in the Gregorian calendar
of Christendom, New Year's Day liturgically marked the Feast of the Naming and Circumcision
of Jesus, which is still observed as such in the Anglican Church and Lutheran Church.[2][3] The
Roman Catholic Church celebrates on this day the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.

In present day, with most countries now using the Gregorian calendar as their de
facto calendar, New Year's Day is among the most celebrated public holidays in the world, often
observed with fireworks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts in each time zone.
Other global New Year's Day traditions include making New Year's resolutions and calling one's
friends and family.