I Day # 15

Today is the last day of the series and is also the Independence Day of India. The Factorium extends its hearty wishes all Indian and the readers a VERY VERY Happy Independence Day!! Jai Hind!!!!

September: Qatar and San Marino celebrate their independence days on the 3rd of September, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua celebrate their independence days on 5th September, Mexico and Guatamela on the 16th of September and Beliza and Malta on the21st of September.

October: Iran and Vietnam celebrate their independence day together on the 16th of October.

November: Panama and Dominica share their independence days on the 3rd of November, Angola and Poland on the 11th of November, Saudi Arabia and Comoros on the 12th of November and Albania and Mauritiana on the 28th of November.

December: According to my source, there is no country sharing its independence day with another in the month of December.

I Day # 14

Today we have the countries sharing their independence day in the months from May-August.

May: Argentina and Jordan share their independence day on the 25th of May.

June: Croatia and Mozambique celebrate their independece day on the 25th of June and Democratic Republic of Congo celebrate their independence day on the 30th of June.

July: Burundi, Canada, Rwanda and Somalia celebrate their independence day on the 1st of July, France and Iraq celebrate it on the 14th of July, Egypt and Ethiopia on 23 July and Liberia and Maldives on 26th July.

August: India, South Korea, North Korea, Bahrain and the Republic of the Congo celebrate their independence day together on 15th August, Gabon and Indonesia celebrate it on 17th of August and Trinidad and Tobago and Malaysia on the 31st of August.

I Day # 13

We switch on to a new subseires today, the countries celebrating their independence days together, or countries sharing their independence days.

Let me go monthwise, so first we have the months from Jan-Apr followed by May-Aug and then by Sept-Dec for the 3 days.

January: Cameroon, Haiti, Western Samoa and Sudan celebrate their independence day on 1st January.

February: According to my source, there are no such countries sharing their I-Days in February.

March: According to my source, there are no such countries sharing their I-Days in February.

April: Hungary and Senegal celebrate their independence day on the 4th of April and Austria, Seirra-Leone and Togo celebrate their independence day on the 27th of April.

More I Day tomorrow.....

I Day # 12

Today we have the last in the first subseries of the countries celebrating their independence days in December.

Thailand - December 5
Finland - December 6
Tanzania - December 9
Kenya - December 12
Niger - December 18
Nepal - December 21

I Day # 11

Today up is the month of November.

Algeria - November 1
Panama - November 3
Dominica - November 3
Cambodia - November 9
Angola - November 11
Poland - November 11
Saudi Arabia - November 12
Comoros - November 12
Monaco - November 19
Lebanon - November 22
Suriname - November 25
Albania - November 28
Mauritania - November 28
Barbados - November 30

I Day # 10

Today we will see about the independence days of the countries in the month of October.

People's Republic of China - October 1
Nigeria - October 1
Guinea - October 2
Lesotho October 4
Fiji - October 7
Germany - October 3
Uganda - October 9
Republic of China/Taiwan - October 10
Spain - October 12
Zambia - October 24
Iran - October 26
South Vietnam - October 26
St Vincent and Grenadines - October 27
Turkey - October 29

I Day # 9

Today we have the month of September lined up.

Libya - September 1
Vietnam - September 2
Qatar - September 3
San Marino - September 3
Swaziland - September 6
Brazil - September 7
Andorra - September 8
North Korea - September 9
Bulgaria - September 9
Costa Rica - September 15
El Salvador - September 15
Guatemala - September 15
Honduras - September 15
Nicaragua - September 15
Mexico - September 16
Papua New Guinea - September 16
Chile - September 18
Belize - September 21
Malta - September 21
Mali - September 22
Saudi Arabia - September 23
Yemen - September 26
Botswana - September 30

I Day # 8

Today we have the list of countries celebrating their independence in this month, the month of August.

Switzerland - August 1
Bolivia - August 6
Ivory Coast - August 7
Singapore - August 9
Ecuador - August 10
Pakistan - August 14
Republic of Congo - August 15
India - August 15
Cyprus - August 16
Gabon - August 17
Indonesia - August 17
Afghanistan - August 18
Romania - August 23
Uruguay - August 25
Trinidad and Tobago - August 31
Malaysia - August 31

I Day # 7

Today we have the countries and their names celebrating their Independence Days in the month of July.

Burundi - July 1
Canada - July 1
Rwanda - July 1
Somalia - July 1
United States of America - July 4
Venezuela - July 5
Malawi - July 6
Argentina - July 9
Bahamas - July 10
Mongolia - July 11
Sao Tome and Principe - July 12
France - July 14
Iraq - July 14
South Korea - July 17
Colombia - July 20
Belgium - July 21
Egypt - July 23
Ethiopia - July 23
Liberia - July 26
Maldive Islands - July 26
Peru - July 28

I Day # 6

Today we have the independence days celebrated in June.

Tunisia - June 1
Italy - June 2
Seychelles - June 5
Sweden - June 6
Portugal - June 10
Philippines - June 12
Iceland - June 17
Kuwait - June 19
Luxembourg - June 23
Croatia - June 25
Mozambique - June 25
Madagascar - June 26
Djibouti - June 27
Republic of Congo - June 30
Zaire - June 30

I Day # 5

Today we will see the names of countries celebrating their Independence Days in the month of May.

Czechoslovakia - May 9
Laos - May 11
Paraguay - May 14
Israel - May 15
Norway - May 17
Cuba - May 20
Argentina - May 25
Jordan - May 25
Guyana - May 26

I Day # 4

Continuing the series, today we will have a look at the countries celebrating their independence days in the month of April.

Hungary - April 4
Senegal - April 4
Denmark - April 16
Syria - April 17
Zimbabwe - April 18
Austria - April 27
Sierra Leone - April 27
Togo - April 27
Japan - April 29
The Netherlands - April 30

I Day # 3

Today we will have the countries celebrating their Independence Days in March.

Wales - March 1
Morocco - March 3
Mauritius - March 12
Ireland - March 17
Liechtenstein - March 19
Pakistan - March 23
Greece - March 25
Bangladesh - March 26

I Day # 2

As mentioned yesterday, today we will have the names of countries celebrating their independence days in February.


Sri Lanka - February 4
New Zealand - February 6
Grenada - February 7
Iran - February 11
Gambia - February 18
Saint Lucia - February 22
Dominican Republic - February 27

I Day # 1

We begin our new series in the new month of August. As we are all aware about our Independence Day coming this 15th of August, I have thought of posting similar things related to independence.


I have thought of mainly 2 sections in this 15 day long series - one will be on the countries and their independence days arranged in months from January to February and the other one will be on countries sharing their independence days with each other, culminating with the Indian Independence Day. Jai Hind!!!


We begin today with some countries celebrating their independence days in January:


Camaroon - January 1
Haiti - January 1
Western Samoa - January 1
Sudan - January 1
Burma - January 4
Chad - January 11
Australia - January 26
Nauru - January 31


Tomorrow we will see about the countries celebrating their independence day in February...

Summer Extravaganza - Pure Facts

Pure Facts ends today with the package of the last 7 facts:

1. The most ironically named French invention is the Belgian waffle, and the most most ironically named Belgian invention is French toast. These names were originally chosen to confuse the Nazis.

2. Man's closest relative is the chimpanzee, at 6 million years ago.

3. I

talian scientist Galileo Galilei was the first person to observe the surface of the Moon, rings of Saturn and Jupiter and its moons with the help of a self built telescope in 1609.

4. A very well known fact... the bestselling book in the world is the Bible.

5. The full form of LASER is Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation and the full form of MASER is Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

6. Continuing, the full form of SASER is Sound Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation and the full form of UASER is Ultrasound Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Then what is the full form of TASER? read on, you will be surprised!!!

7. The full form of TASER is Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle.

This brigns us to the end of the first subseries in the month of June - Pure Facts.

Summer Extravaganza - Pure Facts

The 7 exciting facts for today are the following:

1. The autobiography of Sir. Richard Branson, founder of Virgin mobiles is titled 'Losing my Virginity'.

2. The ISBN, International Standard Book Number is a unique 13-digit number based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, now Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College.

3. The Rubik's Cube, a 3-D mechanical puzzle which is the largest selling puzzle in the world, comes in different variants from 2x2x2 to x7x7.

4. The Pacemaker, invented in 1958, was the first implantable device built in the world, which could completely penetrate the skin and fit inside the human body.

5. Adobe Photoshop, the Photo Software by Adobe, was earlier known as ImagePro.

6. The PET Scan is a Position Emission Tomography Scan, which can show a living brain in action.

7. The full name of Shin Chan, the fun-loving, mischievous 5 year old is Shinnosuke Nohara.

Summer Extravaganza - Pure Facts

Today is the World Environment Day, thus today's Pure Facts will comprise environment-related facts only:

1. The World Environment Day (WED) was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972. The first World Environment Day was on 1973. World Environment Day is hosted every year by a different city with a different theme and is commemorated with an international exposition on the week that 5 June is on.

2. The slogan for the 2005 WED was "Plan for the Planet" and the Slogan for WED 2006 was "Don't Desert Drylands."

3. Whereas the slogan for the WED 2008 was "CO2, Kick the Habit! Towards a low Carbon Economy" and the one for WED 2009 was "Your Planet Needs You - UNite to Combat Climate Change" and the one for this year is "Many Species. One Planet. One Future".

4. The host city for this year's WED is Kigali, Rwanda and the one for last year was Mexico City, Mexico.

5. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (also known as the Stockholm Conference) was an international conference convened under United Nations auspices held in Stockholm, Sweden from June 5-16, 1972. This is when the WED was officially established.

6. There are many official environmental dates which are established by the UN, some of these are UN World Day for Water on 22nd March (the Factorium commemorated it), UN World Population Day on July 11 and UN World Day to combat desertification and drought on June 17.

7. The other environmental dates include International Mountain Day on December 11, World Soil Day on December 5, International Day of Climate Action on October 24, International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer on September 16 and World Wetlands Day on February 2.

Wishing Everyday a good green World Environment Day.

Summer Extravaganza - Pure Facts

7 More pure facts are lined up for today:

1. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he did not wear any pants.

2. Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below the sea level.

3. A well known fact and quiz question... Libya is the only country in the world that has a single coloured green flag.

4. Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th.

5. India shares its independence day date with North and South Korea, Bahrain and Republic of Congo.

6. Eskimos use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.

7. Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

Summer Extravaganza - Pure Facts

We continue the quest for pure facts today with 7 of them:

1. The Railway line crossing the Nullarbar plain in Australia has the largest stretch of straight trak in the world with 478 km without a bend or a curve.

2. Mandarin Chinese is spoken by the greatest number of people in the world followed followed by English, Hindi, Spanish and Russian.

3. India has never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

4. The first bar code was used on a Wrigley's chewing gum... a well known fact.

5. Great Britain, the first in the world to issue postage stamps, has no name printed on it.

6. There are till date 44 countries in the world that are entirely land locked and do not have a coastline as a border.

7. The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War 1 which ended the state of war between Germany and The Allied Powers.