Oct. 1 World Vegetarian Day / Children's Day (Singapore.)
Oct. 2 Gandhi Jayanthi (India) National Holiday celebrated in India to mark the occasion of the birthday of Mohandas Gandhi / Birthday of the Monkey God (Singapore) / Twilight Zone premiers, 1959.
Oct. 3 Gae-Cheon-Jeol `National Foundation Day' (South Korea) / Techies Day (U.S.) So get the guy that fixes your computer at work a new pocket protector.
Oct. 4 National Golf Day (U.S.)
Oct. 5 World Teachers Day.
Oct. 6 German-American Day (United States) / Armed Forces Day (Egypt) / Armed Forces Day (Montenegro)
Oct. 7 Yom Kippur (Jewish) Starts at sundown.
Oct. 8 Okunchi Matsuri. (Nagasaki, Japan) Unusual Japanese festival dating back to when many Chinese and Dutch merchants anchered in the Nagasaki's port, it also has something to do with the time that Christianity was banned in Japan. Anyway... they have a Dragon dance and a Dutch Dance and a number of other events.
Oct. 9 Alphabet Day (South Korea) / Curious Events Day (U.S.) / Leif Erikson Day (For those who care that Leif was first)
Oct. 10 Thanksgiving Day (Canada) / Taiiku no Hi "Health and Sports Day" (Japan)
Oct. 11 Emergency Nurses Day (U.S.) / It was 31 years ago on this day that two fishermen in Pascagoula Mississippi claimed they were levitated onto a UFO by an alien that looked like the unholy love child of Dr. Zoidburg & Bender the Robot.
Oct. 12 Columbus Day (the day they say it happened) Day to celebrate when Indians discovered this Italian fellow on their beach. / Thanksgiving (Canada) / Crowleymas (Thelema) Alister Crowley's Birthday 1875.
Oct. 13 Columbus Tells a Lie Day. It was discovered that Columbus' ships really landed on the 13th of October 1492, he was persuaded by Dutch sailor Piet de Stuini (or DeStynie) to change it to the 12th in the logs because he said that the number 13 might frighten sailors and future investors. The change was detected by an Italian study group called the Colombiani. / Fontinaia (Old Rome) Fontinaia was the Roman festival for the veneration of holy wells, springs & fountains.
Oct. 14 Feast of Pokrov (Russian Orthodox) pokrov means veil and strangely enough commemorates the belief that in the 9th century Constantinople was saved by the protecting veil of Mary, the attackers? Russians.
Oct. 16 Dictionary Day / World Food Day
Oct. 17 Boss' Day / Wear Something Gaudy Day (U.S.) However, perhaps not in front of the boss.
Oct. 18 Alaska Day Oddly enough celebrated in Ohio... oh wait... this just in...
celebrated in Alaska.....
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Oct. 19 Person's Day (Canada) / Evaluate Your Life Day (U.S.)
Oct. 20 Birth of the Báb (Bahá'í Faith) / Spirit Day (LGBT) people wear purple as a sign of support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth and to speak out against bullying.
Oct. 21 Feast of the Black Christ
Oct. 22 Kuan Yin or Goddess of Mercy Day (Chinese) / Dussera (India) Festival celebrates Rama's victory over Ravana.
Oct. 23 Day of Meditation. 24 hours of living meditatively. The School of Metaphysics invites people around the world to meditate, pray, and contemplate silence as often as possible from midnight to midnight to bring people together and promote world peace. / Chulalongkorn Day (Thailand). Annual commemoration of King Chulalongkorn who abolished slavery in Thailand in 1910.
Oct. 24 School Librarian Day (U. S.) held the forth Monday in October each year. / United Nations Day (International) / National Bologna Day (U.S.) / Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show arrives in Green Town, Illinois. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Ray Bradbury.
Oct. 25 St. Crispin's Day
Oct. 27 Cranky Co-Workers Day
Oct. 28 Ochi (Greek) Greek for "No" which is what they told Hitler when he tryed to occupire Greece / Separation of Church & State Day (U.S.) Yeah... Nice while it lasted / Chocolate Day (U.S.) / Isia (Ancient Egypt) First day of a 6 day ceremony that commemorates Isis' search for the dismembered parts of Osiris.
Oct. 29 Feast of the Dead. (Iroquois)
Oct. 30 Haunted Refrigerator Day / National Candy Corn Day
Oct. 31 Halloween (U.S. Canada and some other places) / Samhain (Pagan) Australia, South America & Africa, you're on your own as to what you call it. / Reformation Day (Lutheran) and on Halloween this year!
