Peruvian Clown Day

For the past 17 years, the Peruvian capital of Lima hosts a day for people to dress up as clowns (The friendly passive kind for obvious reasons) and parade around the city on 25 May but why?
They do this to honour a local clown named Tony Perejil AKA José Alvarez Vélez. Tony entertained impoverished Peruvians who had to reside in shantytowns to lift their spirits. Also called a squatter area, a shantytown is an area in a city consisting of cheaply made houses or shacks made of mud and wood and the poorest of the poor live here as they don't have enough money for a proper house. These places are unhygienic and always at constant threat of being part of urban redevelopment and Tony went to these neighbourhoods to make the locals forget about their troubles for a little while.
Tony carried out his act in his little tent in the 1970s and the 1980s until his untimely passing on 25 May 1987 from pancreatic cancer. To honour his memory, Peruvian Clown Day was set up in 2006 and apart from an equally obvious 2 year long absence, every 25 May is celebrated with people in clown makeup entertaining (and terrifying those who have coulrophobia) all along Lima.