Content deleted Content added
Mr. Lechkar (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Nickknack00 (talk | contribs) →State officials: added citation for JFK |
||
Line 15:
== Selected list of figures recognized ==
=== State officials ===
* National days of mourning are typically declared for [[presidents of the United States]], usually on the day of their funerals. Beginning with the November 25th, 1963 mourning of [[John F. Kennedy]], these days are also considered federal holidays.<ref>{{cite web |title= Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims a national day of mourning for JFK, 1963 |website=The Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History |url=https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/lyndon-b-johnson-proclaims-national-day-mourning-jfk-1963 |access-date=1 October 2024}}</ref> There was no official day of mourning for [[Herbert Hoover]].<ref name="USStateFunerals">{{cite web|title=Past State Funerals|url=https://www.usstatefuneral.mdw.army.mil/past-state-funerals|website=usstatefuneral.mdw.army.mil|access-date=January 13, 2020|archive-date=January 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113034457/https://www.usstatefuneral.mdw.army.mil/past-state-funerals|url-status=live}}</ref>
* In the [[Soviet Union]], an official mourning period was reserved for the deaths of leaders or former leaders, with [[Alexei Rykov]], [[Nikita Khrushchev]] and [[Georgy Malenkov]] being notable exceptions after Rykov was executed during the [[Great Purge]] and the other two were relegated to obscurity. Khrushchev's death was announced only hours before he was buried without full state honors,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gwertzman |first1=Bernard |title=Soviet Announces Khrushchev Death in Cool Language |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/09/13/archives/soviet-announces-khrushchev-death-in-cool-language-moscow-denies.html |website=The New York Times |date=September 13, 1971 |access-date=January 14, 2020 |archive-date=May 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502194828/https://www.nytimes.com/1971/09/13/archives/soviet-announces-khrushchev-death-in-cool-language-moscow-denies.html |url-status=live }}</ref> while Malenkov's death was publicly announced more than 2 weeks after he died.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pearson |first1=Richard |title=George Malenkov Dies |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1988/02/02/georgi-malenkov-dies/8d8ea079-f433-426e-8569-c74801e1f152/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=February 2, 1988 |access-date=January 14, 2020 |archive-date=January 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114103041/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1988/02/02/georgi-malenkov-dies/8d8ea079-f433-426e-8569-c74801e1f152/ |url-status=live }}</ref> This custom changed in 1968 when a national day of mourning was declared for Soviet cosmonaut [[Yuri Gagarin]], the first human to journey into outer space.<ref name="Gagarin">{{cite web|url=https://www.pravdareport.com/society/124178-gagarin_death/|title=Gagarin's death: Obvious mystery|first=Dmitry|last=Sudakov|date=March 28, 2013|website=PravdaReport|access-date=January 14, 2020|archive-date=January 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114033640/https://www.pravdareport.com/society/124178-gagarin_death/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Duranty |first1=Walter |title=Lenin Dies Of Cerebral Hemorrhage; Moscow Throngs Overcome With Grief; Trotsky Departs Ill, Radek In Disfavor |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/990121onthisday_big.html |website=The New York Times |date=January 23, 1924 |access-date=January 14, 2020 |archive-date=January 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114034514/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/990121onthisday_big.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In the final years of the Soviet Union, official mourning was declared for 2 disasters: the [[1988 Armenian earthquake]] and the [[Ufa train disaster]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Когда и по какому поводу в России объявляли общенациональный траур. Инфографика |url=https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-43572739 |website=BBC News Русская служба |language=ru |date=March 28, 2018 |access-date=January 14, 2020 |archive-date=October 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031025822/https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-43572739 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Presidents of Mexico]], usually on the day of their funerals. These days are usually considered municipal and religious holidays in [[Mexico City]] and federal holidays in the rest of [[Mexico|the republic]]. [[Miguel de la Madrid]] in 2012 was the most recent.
| |||