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The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington, D.C. Ozaki gave the trees to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan and also celebrate the continued close ...
1935: The first "Cherry Blossom Festival" was sponsored jointly by many civic groups and became an annual event in subsequent years. April 8, 1937: A ceremony attracted thousands of visitors to the Capital.
El festival se celebra desde 1935. En 1994 el festival se extendió hasta su formato actual de dos semanas. El festival está organizado por la compañía National Cherry Blossom Festival Inc., que actúa como agrupación de muchas organizaciones gubernamentales, cívicas y de negocios.
In 1935, many local civic groups combined to sponsor a three-day event to commemorate the Japanese gift. Since this first event, the National Cherry Blossom Festival has grown in popularity. The festival is two weeks long and includes many events such as a formal ball, pageant, parade, concert, and a ten-mile road race.
30 de mar. de 2018 · First held in 1935, the festival attracts more than 700,000 people when the flowers are in bloom. Orren R. Louden. By Daniel Stone. March 30, 2018. • 15 min read. This story first published in...
7 de abr. de 2015 · The first cherry blossom festival was organized in 1935, and ever since, the brief but extraordinarily striking blooms have come to represent spring for the Washingtonians and the tourists who come to see them each year.
The first cherry blossom festival in Washington, D.C., took place in 1935, marking a lasting friendship between the two countries, despite two world wars and changing global politics. Decades later, Washington, D.C., continues to hold the festival, and the festival itself has grown into one of D.C.’s most popular springtime event.
