The day of August 13 is celebrated as International Left Handers Day worldwide. The first International Left Handers Day was celebrated on 13 August 1992. You will know when and how it started to celebrate this day.
History of International Left Handers Day
On August 13, 1992, an event was organized by the Left Handers Club for the first time, with the aim of celebrating this unique quality inside left handers as well as to make people aware of its advantages and disadvantages. It was first celebrated in 1976 by Dean R Campbell. After which this day began to be celebrated worldwide.
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Purpose of celebrating this day
– The first objective of celebrating this day is to make people worldwide aware that left handers are not separate from right handers in any sense. They can do all their work with the same ease as right handers.
– Left handers constitute 7-10 percent of the total population of the world. Despite this, left handers have to suffer many kinds of criticism.
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How to Celebrate
On this day many activities like left hand tea parties, left vs right sport matches, such fun games which have to be played with left hand only. They all have the same objective to make everyone aware of the problem that the left handers face daily in their lives.
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The World famous person who is the left hand
Barack Obama
Bill Gates
Mark zuckerberg
Lady Gaga
Julia Roberts
Linked garland
Oprah Winfrey
