4. Stamps Announcing or Memorializing Important Meetings
Occasionally, post offices issue commemorative stamps and First Day
Covers, devoted to scientific meetings or events. A First Day Cover is a
specially designed envelope, carrying a newly printed stamp, along with
a specially designed postmark, on it.
Obstetrics and Gynecologic meetings or congresses such as; 5th World
Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Australia in 1967, 3rd
International Gynecology Days in Portugal in 1973, 8th Latin America
Congress in Havana in 1976, 8th National Congress of Obstetrics and
Gynecology in Romania in 1979, 9th World Congress of Obstetrics and
Gynecology in Japan in 1979, 11th World Congress of Obstetrics and
Gynecology in Berlin in 1985, 10th Asian & Oceanic Congress of
Obstetrics and Gynecology in Sri Lanka in 1985, Safe Motherhood South
Asia Conference in Lahore in 1990, 18th FIGO World Congress of
Obstetrics and Gynecology in Malaysia in 2006 and 57th All India
Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Patna in 2014 were honored by
special stamps or First Day of Issues (Fig 15, 16).