Google Calendar removes start of Black History, Women’s History months

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Calendar removes start of ****** History, Women’s History months

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‘s popular online and mobile calendars no longer include reference to the first day of ****** History Month or Women’s History month, among other holidays and events.

The company’s calendar previously had those days marked at the start of February and March, respectively, but they don’t appear for 2025.

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first reported on the removals from

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Calendar late last week, which followed comments from users.

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spokesperson said the changes took place in the middle of last year.

“Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world,” the spokesperson said in an email. “We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing —  and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable.”

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has made a number of changes lately that align with an altered political environment in the U.S. The company recently began scrapping its diversity hiring goals, becoming the latest tech giant to change its approach to hiring and promotions following the election of President Donald Trump. One of Trump’s first acts as president after taking office in January was to sign an executive order 

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 and putting federal officials overseeing those initiatives on leave.

And in late January, the company said it would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” in

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Maps after the Trump administration updates its “official government sources.”

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also said it would follow Trump and start using the name “Mount McKinley” for the mountain in Alaska currently called Denali.

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Calendar, the company has removed other events as well. It previously had Nov. 1 as the first day of Indigenous Peoples Month and June 1 as the start of LGBTQ+ Pride month.

The company spokesperson said that in mid-2024, the company “returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from 

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 globally, while allowing users to manually add other important moments.” The timeanddate.com website says its company has 40 employees and is based in Norway.

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Calendar users noticed the changes and left

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web pages and on

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. The user support site previously received

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from people upset about the company adding such observances.

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