BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anguilla X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anguilla BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:19700101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3783271:Event:857808 DTSTAMP:20260501T071639Z SUMMARY:Mexican Independence Day DESCRIPTION:\r\nThe Cinco De Mayo holiday celebrates Mexico's victory over France in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.\r\n\r\nIt was a relatively minor battle -- the French reclaimed Puebla a year later -- but a symbolic one because a small Mexican army defeated a larger occ upying force.\r\n\r\nBy 1867, Mexican troops had driven France from th e country.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTaco Tuesday coincides with Cinc o de Mayo\r\nhttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cinco-de-mayo \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMany Americans assume Cinco de Mayo is Mexico's In dependence Day. It's not.\r\n\r\nThat holiday falls on September 16 an d commemorates the Grito de Dolores, a priest's ringing of a church be ll in the town of Dolores in 1810 

\r\n\r\nThat is 110 years a go\r\n\r\n I swear that the graphic was an unfortunate random assignm ent of a graphic - but perhaps a fortuitous one.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.hi story.com/topics/mexico/struggle-for-mexican-independence \r\n \r\n  https://www.history.com/topics/mexico/struggle-for-mexican-independen ce\r\n\n\nFor more information visit http://www.agilephilly.com/events /mexican-independence-day DTSTART;TZID=America/Anguilla:20200916T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anguilla:20200916T235900 CATEGORIES:historical, cinco, de, mayo LOCATION:Mexico somewhere WEBSITE:https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/americas/cinco-de-mayo-faq-trnd URL:https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/americas/cinco-de-mayo-faq-trnd CONTACT: ORGANIZER:drinkers of Tequilla ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0 /file/get/4932670475?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="John Vor is, Lead Coordinator":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR