Angam Day is a holiday in the Republic of Nauru that is celebrated on October 26th . On this day, Nauruans celebrate the date when the population of the island for the first time since its colonization reached 1,500 people (this number was considered the minimum necessary for the survival of the nation). In total, in the history of Nauru there were two cases of fixing the treasured number: in 1932 and in 1949 .
After the First World War , in 1923 , Nauru received the status of the mandated territory of the League of Nations and was transferred under the joint control of Great Britain , Australia and New Zealand , but Australia (previously the island was a colony of the German Empire) was administered. After the war ended, in 1919, an Australian census was carried out by an Australian administrator Griffith in Nauru. Later, in a meeting with local leaders, Griffith stated that the population of the island was dangerously low and, if the Nauruans wanted to be a nation , the population of Nauru should be at least 1,500. It was also decided that the day on which the population reaches this figure will be called Angama Day (Glee Day), and it will become a public holiday. The child, who will become the 1500th, will be declared an Angama child , for which he will receive valuable gifts and respect.
Thirteen years after the census, the island's population reached 1,500. Angama's first child was born on October 26, 1932 . They became a girl named Eidaruvo ( naur. Eidegenegen Eidagaruwo ). However, during World War II, the population of Nauru again fell below a dangerous level. 1201, during the war, a Nauruan was evacuated to the island of Truk (now Chuuk ), of which only 737 people returned to their homeland. The first child of Angama was also unable to return to Nauru, since he died on Truk due to malnutrition and tumbling , or tropical granuloma , like most evacuees.
The second child of Angam was a boy named Adam ( naur. Bethel Enproe Adam ), born in Boeh County on March 31, 1949 . Despite the fact that Adam was born on the wrong day as Eidaruvo, it was on October 26 that residents continue to celebrate Angam Day.