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27 January: what is celebrated today
Some dates arrive full of memories, professions, and everyday gestures that sustain the world from many different places. 27 January is one of those days when history meets the personal, when collective memory coexists with quiet professions, simple celebrations, and necessary demands. A date made of contrasts: from the most painful remembrance to the sweetness of a cake, from the silent work of preserving the past to the care for life just beginning.
International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
Every 27 January, the world pauses to remember the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, a gesture that continues to run through generations. The UN chose this date to pay tribute to the six million Jews murdered and to all the victims of the Nazi regime. It is not merely a historical remembrance: it is a warning, a shared responsibility in the face of hate speech that reappears with disturbing ease.
Eighty years later, remembrance retains its urgency. This day underlines the importance of protecting places of memory, fighting Holocaust denial and strengthening human rights education. Commemorating is not a static act: it is a way of ensuring that the silences of the past are not repeated.
International Community Manager Day
In the heart of the 21st century, much of the public dialogue takes place on screens, timelines and profiles that never rest. Behind that endless conversation are community managers, professionals who translate emotions, manage crises and build bridges between brands and communities. Since 2011, every fourth Monday in January has recognised the value of a young, fast-moving and often invisible profession.
The commemoration celebrates creativity, reputation management and the ability to listen amid digital noise. A community manager designs strategies, interprets data, anticipates reactions and maintains the pulse of social media with humanity. Their work, as volatile as it is indispensable, sustains the link between organisations and the public in an age of permanent hyperconnection.
International Conservator-Restorer Day
Behind an immaculate painting, an intact manuscript or a sculpture that seems suspended in time, there are hands working in silence. 27 January also pays tribute to conservators and restorers, guardians of heritage who study, document, clean and bring life back to works that tell our shared history.
Their work is technical and, at the same time, deeply poetic: they allow the past to continue speaking to us. They investigate materials, halt deterioration, reassemble fragments and determine which part of a work should be recovered and which should be respected in its fragility. In a world moving at great speed, their task reminds us that some inheritances survive only thanks to meticulous and patient care.
World Breast Milk Expression Day
Not all forms of motherhood are experienced in the same way, and this day makes a daily reality visible: that of mothers who express milk to feed their babies when it is not possible to do so directly. Born from a community initiative, this day recognises the physical and emotional effort involved in sustaining this practice while working, resting or caring for a premature newborn.
The commemoration also underlines the value of support networks — digital or in person — that make it possible to share experiences, resolve doubts and break taboos. Expressing milk is no small gesture: it is a way of ensuring care in different situations and, in many cases, of providing food to other babies through breast milk banks.
World Chocolate Cake Day
In contrast to the gravity of the day’s other commemorations, this observance offers a sweet respite. Chocolate cake, first recorded in 1847, has become a universal symbol of celebration. 27 January simply invites people to enjoy: cocoa, shared cooking, that moment of happiness that a dessert can cause even on the most intense days.
It is a reminder that everyday rituals also sustain cultural life. Recipes passed from hand to hand, flavours that evoke memories, the ability of food to bring people together around a table: all of this forms part of our identity just as much as the great historical narratives.
National Nutrition Day (Mexico)
Mexico dedicates this date to reflecting on dietary habits and promoting public health through prevention. The day addresses urgent issues: nutritional education, access to healthy food, the fight against diseases related to poor diet and the importance of policies that guarantee a balanced diet for the whole population.
The day also seeks to dismantle myths, strengthen school programmes and remind us that nutrition is not an individual matter, but a collective challenge. Mexican gastronomic diversity, as rich as it is vast, is also a route to promoting a more conscious and sustainable lifestyle.