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Iceland:

1935

It wasn't often that Emil Steilsson felt like he was first in anything; but today he did. Thanks to his people, he was now the first Western European country who had legalized therapeutic abortion. It was a triumph in his eyes.

He could even claim to be the first country to legalize abortion of any kind. Sure, Mexico had allowed abortion, under certain circumstances some time back, and the Soviet had had a short-lived law 15 yrs ago or so. But he hoped that this step of his, would be an inspiration for the rest of the world to follow.

International:

There had been spies in the earliest times, spies and thieves. The spies then, as now, were most interested in information, because then, as now, information was power.

Then came the Industrial Revolution, and with it, invention after invention it seemed, and improvement of these inventions, so by the time of the World Wars, spies now had the opportunity to get information, without stealing the information. But still, the spies, or whomever they'd hired to steal the information, had to physically be by the information.

That is, until the Age of Information. Suddenly, spies and others wanting information could be in their own bedroom in, for example Calcutta, while stealing or reading sensitive files in remote places like St. Petersburg.

So, the only surprise was really that only 50 countries were observing Data Privacy Day.

Kingdom of the Franks:

814

The Personification of the Kingdom of the Franks, Frankish or Franks among friends, or Charles among close friends, felt cold.

It wasn't just the weather, it was the death of Charlemagne, the great man whom he'd taken his name from.

Though he believed that his son, Louis, would be a great King and a good Boss, he mourned Charlemagne, not for his people, but for himself.

Others:

If anyone claimed that Army Day in Armenia was created because they'd gotten their independence from the Soviet Union, then they wouldn't be completely wrong, Armenia thought.

Poland:

According to the mind of Poland, Feliks, every opportunity to have like a day off and like totally celebrate, had to be grabbed and grabbed like fiercely.

So, the 447th anniversary for the sanction of religious freedom?

It had to like totally to the max be celebrated.

Author's notes:

I don't own Hetalia