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Google Calendar removes default references for Pride Day, Black History Month
Also omitted is Indigenous Peoples Month, Hispanic Heritage Month and Holocaust Remembrance Day, according to social media users and product experts.
The California-based tech giant said it manually added "a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries" for several years, supplementing public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com that have been used to populate Google Calendar for over a decade. Separate from this Calendar shift, Google has also gained attention over its more recent decision to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali on Google Maps — following orders from President Donald Trump to rename the body of water bordering the U.S., Mexico and Cuba the Gulf of America, as well as revert the title of America's highest mountain peak back to Mt. Google's move notably came in the wake of an executive order aimed, in part, at pressuring government contractors to end DEI initiatives.
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