When is Friendship Day 2017: Date, history and importance

It all began when the founder of Hallmark cards, Joyce Hall, proposed the celebrations in 1930. In 1998, in honour of the holiday, Nane Annan, the wife of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, declared the adorable bear Winnie the Pooh as the global Ambassador of Friendship at the UNEvery year, there are days that celebrate our mothers, fathers, siblings, children, grandparents and lovers. So isn’t it only fair that there is one dedicated to the love and bond we share with our friends — who are nothing less than a family to us? Well, that’s what Friendship Day is all about. Every first Sunday of August, most people across the world come together to celebrate their most loved friendships. This year, it will celebrated on August 6.
True, there need not be one day dedicated to celebrate our most valuable friends, but nothing better than cherishing all your memories together — old and new, of and with your friends. The first International Friendship Day was proposed in 1958 in Paraguay.