<P> Youth and Spring Day (Día de la Primavera y la Juventud) is celebrated on September 21 in Paraguay, which marks the start of the spring season . </P> <P> Youth Day is celebrated on first Sunday of July every year in Singapore . The next day will normally be a scheduled school holiday . </P> <P> Youth Day on 16 June is a public holiday in South Africa and commemorates a protest which resulted in a wave of protests across the country known as the Soweto uprising of 1976 . It came in response to multiple issues with the Bantu Education Act and the government edict in 1974 that Afrikaans be used as medium of instruction for certain subjects in black schools . The iconic picture of Hector Pieterson, a black schoolchild shot by the police, brought home to many people within and outside of South Africa the effect of the struggle during the Apartheid government's reign . </P> <P> On 20 September each year in Thailand, National Youth Day (Thai: วัน เยาวชน แห่ง ชาติ, Wan Yaowachon Haeng Chat) commemorates the birth dates of Kings Chulalongkorn and Ananda Mahidol . Thailand celebrates Youth Day on this date because of the many births in the month of September . </P>

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