<P> The NEA gives a history of National Teacher Day: The origins of Teacher Day are murky . Around 1944, a Wisconsin teacher named Ryan Krug began corresponding with political and education leaders about the need for a national day to honor teachers . Woodbridge wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt, who in 1953 persuaded the 81st Congress to proclaim a National Teacher Day . NEA along with its Kansas and Indiana state affiliates and the Dodge City, Kansas local NEA branch lobbied Congress to create a national day celebrating teachers . Congress declared 7 March 1980 as National Teacher Day for that year only . The NEA and its affiliates continued to observe Teacher Day on the first Tuesday in March until 1985, when the National PTA established Teacher Appreciation Week in the first full week of May . The NEA Representative Assembly then voted to make the Tuesday of that week National Teacher Day . As of 4 November 1976, 6 November was adopted as Teachers' Day in the U.S. state of Massachusetts . Currently, Massachusetts sets the first Sunday of June as its own Teachers' Day annually . </P> <Tr> <Td> Uruguay </Td> <Td> 22 September </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Uzbekistan </Td> <Td> 1 October </Td> <Td> Uzbekistan is one of the countries where Teachers' Day is on October 1, and there is a day off throughout the country . Teachers' Day has been celebrated here since 1997 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Vietnam </Td> <Td> 20 November </Td> <Td> This holiday allows students to express their respect to their teacher . Students begin preparing a week in advance . Many classes prepare literature and art to welcome Teachers' Day, while other students prepare foods and flowers for the parties held at their schools . Students usually visit their teachers at their homes to offer flowers and small gifts, or organize trips with their teachers and classmates . Former students also pay respect to their former teachers on this day . The holiday has its origins in a meeting between educators in communist bloc nations in Warsaw in 1957 . It was first celebrated in 1958 as the Day of the International Manifest of Educators; in 1982 the day was renamed Vietnamese Educators' Day . </Td> </Tr>

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