International Firefighters' Day is observed on May 4. It
was instituted after a proposal was emailed out across the
world on January 4, 1999 due to the deaths of five
firefighters in tragic circumstances in a bushfire in
Australia.
World Press Freedom Day is a day of support for media
which are targets for the restraint, or abolition, of press
freedom. It is also a day of remembrance for those
journalists who lost their lives in the pursuit of a story.