DENIP is the abbreviation of the School Day of Non-violence and Peace (from Catalan-valencian-balear: Dia Escolar de la No-violència i la Pau), founded by the majorican poet and pacifist Llorenç Vidal in Spain in 1964 and observed on January 30 or thereabouts every year, on the anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી moɦən̪d̪äs kəɾəmʧən̪d̪ gän̪d̪ʱi (2 October 1869 – 30 January In countries with a Southern Hemisphere school calendar, it can be observed on March 30 or thereabouts. Southern Hemisphere is the half of a Planet that is South of the Equator —the word hemisphere literally means 'half ball' Events 240 BC - 1st recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.