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From http://www.un.org/en/events/motherlanguageday/

International Mother Language Day has been observed every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. The date represents the day in 1952 when students demonstrating for recognition of their language, Bangla, as one of the two national languages of the then Pakistan, were shot and killed by police in Dhaka, the capital of what is now Bangladesh.

International Mother Language Day is February 21. Find out this year’s theme and what you can do to help promote students’ mother languages at http://www.un.org/en/events/motherlanguageday/