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Petition Register Shakespeare's (accepted) birthday, 23rd April, as a Day in the Calendar

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The World's greatest-ever playwright and poet is not officially recognised.
There is no Day commemorating the Bard of Avon.
High time to right this wrong!

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

980 signatures

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Date closed 31 July 2014
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