FRIENDSHIP DAY| WHEN IS FRIENDSHIP DAY | FRIENDSHIP DAY HISTORY | HOW WE CELEBRATE FRIENDSHIP DAY

FRIENDSHIP DAY| WHEN IS FRIENDSHIP DAY | FRIENDSHIP DAY HISTORY | HOW WE CELEBRATE FRIENDSHIP DAY

1. WHAT IS FRIENDSHIP DAY?
2. WHEN IS FRIENDSHIP DAY ?
3. FRIENDSHIP DAY HISTORY
4. HOW WE CELEBRATE FRIENDSHIP DAY?

WHAT IS FRIENDSHIP DAY?

It’s a day for celebrating friendship and is  celebrated in different dates around the world. In India we celebrate it on first Sunday of August.

The friendship day celebrations originated  in United States  by 1935 as they dedicated a day in honor of friends. Eventually greeting card industries took over the celebration and it spread over the world through social medias ,greetings, cell phones ,etc. And now-a-days friendship day is being celebrated all over the world.

WHEN IS FRIENDSHIP DAY 2018

Friendship day is celebrated in the 5^th  August of every year. In 2018 5^th  August is a Sunday.

FRIENDSHIP DAY HISTORY

Joyce Hall founder of Hallmark cards, proposed the celebrations. Before that, Friendship Day was promoted through greeting cards. By 1998, in honor of the holiday, Nane Annan, wife of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, declared the adorable bear Winnie the Pooh as the global Ambassador of Friendship at the UN.

                            

 

  

 

 

 

HOW WE CELEBRATE FRIENDSHIP DAY?

On this day people gifts each other colorful wrist bands that are known as ‘friendship bands’, cards, flowers and gifts. 

FRIENDSHIP DAY| WHEN IS FRIENDSHIP DAY | FRIENDSHIP DAY HISTORY | HOW WE CELEBRATE FRIENDSHIP DAY