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Google has caused a stir as several notable events are removed from its calendar.
Last week, some eagle-eyed users noticed that some occasions were now absent from the Google Calendar, including Black History Month and Women’s History Month.
People across social media say they have spotted others being removed too like Pride Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jewish Heritage, and Hispanic Heritage. This has led to some people tagging the technology giant and asking why they have disappeared.
In a statement online, Google said it removed the calendar observances as it “just wasn’t feasible to put hundreds of moments in everyone’s calendars…”
Hey @Google, why did you remove Holocaust Remembrance Day and Black History Month from @googlecalendar? Asking for tens of millions of friends.
— 🚀 John Bourscheid (@johnbourscheid) February 12, 2025
The blog post states the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of moments in a wide number of countries around the world some years ago. This included things like cultural celebrations, teacher days, and more.
They write that it was in mid-2024 when they “made the decision to simplify and show only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com. Contrary to some of the comments on social media, this was not something we did just this year.”
While some occasions may now be absent from the calendar, the team says they “continue to celebrate and promote a variety of cultural moments across our products, visible to people everywhere — as you saw in the last few weeks with Black History Month and Lunar New Year.”
That’s not the only thing the company has recently found controversy with as it was on February 10 when Google made a statement about the Gulf of Mexico name change.
This came after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that renamed the body of water to the Gulf of America.
In a blog post published on Monday, Google said: “People using Maps in the U.S. will see ‘Gulf of America,’ and people in Mexico will see ‘Gulf of Mexico.’ Everyone else will see both names.”
The company explained the reasoning and linked to a post on X which states how it has a “longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”
Featured Image: Via News from Google on X
