National day of mourning

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This article is about the general term, national day of mourning. For specific observances with this name, see National Day of Mourning.

A national day of mourning is a generic category for a day marked by mourning and memorial activities across the majority of a country's populace; such days include those marking the death or funeral of a renowned individual or individuals from that country or elsewhere, or the anniversary of such a death or deaths. They are typically either spontaneous reactions or specifically so designated by that country's government. In addition to commemorations of the death of an individuals, many would include Israeli's Yom HaShoah in remembrance of the Holocaust to be such a day.

Contents 1 Selected List of Figures Recognized by National Days of Mourning 1.1 State officials 1.2 Religious figures 1.3 Sporting figures 1.4 Tragedies

[edit] Selected List of Figures Recognized by National Days of Mourning

[edit] State officials

• All presidents of the United States, usually on the day of their funerals beginning with John F. Kennedy. For JFK, the day of the funeral was a day of national mourning in many parts of the world.
• When the Swedish Social Democratic Prime Minister Olof Palme was killed in 1986-Sweden, Cuba, Nicaragua and Vietnam.
• Leaders Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong (who actually had a national mourning period lasting a week), and Deng Xiaoping - China

[edit] Religious figures

• Pope John Paul II (Mainly Roman Catholic countries)
• Venerable Master Yin Shun (Taiwan)

[edit] Sporting figures

• Ayrton Senna (Brazil)

[edit] Tragedies

• Victims of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing (United States)
• Victims of September 11, 2001 attacks (All parts of the world)
• Victims of the 2004 Tsunami in Southeast Asia (All parts of the world)
• Victims of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 (Hong Kong)
• Victims of the 1999 Taiwan Earthquake (Taiwan)
• Victims of the Nanking Massacre (Taiwan and mainland China)
• Victims of the 2004 terrorist train bombing in Madrid, Spain (Spain)
• Victims of the 2005 terrorist bombings in London (United Kingdom)
• Victims of the 2006 roof collapse in Katowice (Poland), 29 January 2006 - 1 February 2006
• Victims of the mining disaster at the Halemba mine in Ruda Śląska (Poland), 23 November 2006 - 25 November 2006
• Victims of the Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster, the crash of UT Air Flight 471 and a fire in a retirement home (Russia), 21 March 2007