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3 Minutes World Silence

'''Please DELETE 3 Minutes World Silence from Wikimedia and Wikipedia. Mary Cassini, Australia. Founder 3 Minutes World Silence. Dated: 5 January 2012.''' This event takes place on January 1st at 11.00 o'clock in the morning, local time, with a message for every one of us to remember the future and to wish for peace.

Founded by Mary Cassini in Australia in December 1983, the first World Silence took place at the eleventh hour on January 1st 1984 [1]

Mary and her husband, Peter Stapleton, travelled round the world in 1986 to publicize the idea. It was supported in many countries. In the former Soviet Union it was accepted by the Soviet Peace Committee as a way for the USSR to join the West. In 1987 Mary was a delegate to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's first conference for glasnost and perestroika. On December 30 1989, the Russian newspaper Pravda published details of the 3 Minutes World Silence on its front page. [2]

A public exhibition with a large globe of the world to illustrate the event was held in Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, from December 30 1989 to January 2 1990. This was with the support of both Houses of Parliament. [3] This globe shows the 36 time-zones of the earth highlighted in turn. Lights were installed by students of Birdwood High School, South Australia, in 1987. The globe has been exhibited in many public areas each January 1st, including in and around Jerusalem, December 1990 to January 1991.[4]

A soundscape, Footsteps, composed by Ros Bandt in 1991, dedicated to 3 Minutes World Silence, was premiered on Australian Broadcasting Corp. [ABC] FM Stereo radio and was broadcast nationwide on January 1st 1992 [5][6]

The Garnaut Review on Climate Change accepted a submission in 2011 for 3 Minutes World Silence. [7]

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