Oct. 1 World Vegetarian Day / Children's Day (Singapore.) /
National Day (People's Republic of China)
Oct. 2 Birthday of Hanuman the Monkey God (Singapore) / Ludi
Augustales (Ancient Rome) / Gandhi
Jayanti, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi in 1869 (India) / International Day of
Non Violence, Cross your fingers / Old Man's Day (Virgin Islands) / Peanuts
comic strip first published In 1950. / Twilight Zone premiers, 1959.
Oct. 3 Gae-chun-joi `National Foundation Day ( South Korea)
When, according to legend the Korean Kingdom was founded in 2333 BCE / Techies
Day ( U.S.) So get the guy that fixes your computer at work a new pocket
protector. - 6: Thesmophoria (Anicent Greek) Festival commemorating the
transformation of Kore (Queen of the Living) into the goddess Persephone. / Captain Kangaroo first aired on
this day in 1955.
Oct. 4 National Golf Day (U.S.) / World Wide Animal Day /
National Cinnamon Bun Day (Sweden)
Oct. 5 World Teachers Day / Lee National Denim Day. Women wear denim to support awareness of
breast cancer. Held the first Friday in October.
National Cinnamon Bun Day
Oct. 6 Mad Hatter Day (Geeks) the date was picked because
the Mad Hatter wears a top hat on the front of which a slip of paper with reads
"10/6." So its like... important, or something... right? / Dedicattion of the Virgin's Crown (England) I don't know,
somehow that just doesn't sound British to me. / Labour Day (South Australia)
In other words October the 6th is Australian for Labor day. / In the Lord of
the Rings it was on this day that Frodo was stabbed by one of the Black Riders
on Weathertop.
Oct. 7 World Smile Day. The intent of World Smile Day is to
do an act of kindness, or help one person to smile this day. / Mindfulness Day
(Zen Buddhist)
Oct. 8 Columbus Day (observed)/ Wallpaper Day (U.S.) Hangul
or Alphabet Day (South Korea) Celebrating the invention of Hangul, the native
Korean phonetic alphabet.
Oct. 9 Curious Events Day (U.S. ) / Leif Erikson Day (For
those who say Leif was the first European to reach America.
Oct. 10 Festival of Bodhisattva (Mahayana Buddhist)
celebrates Kuan Yin's attainment of Bodhisattvahood. / Taiiku no hi
'Health-Sports Day' ( Japan) / Double Tenth Day / National Day (Taiwan) /
Wildlife Day (U.S.)
October 20th is / Brandied Fruit Day, so don’t eat fruit and drive
Oct. 11 Emergency Room Nurses Day (U.S.) / Coming Out Day / and It was on this day in 1974 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 Indigenous Peoples Day / Columbus Day (the day they
say it happened) Day to celebrate when Indians discovered this Italian fellow
on their beach. / Free Thought Day (U.S.) / Crowleymas (Thelema) for
Alister Crowley's Birthday in 1875.
Oct. 13 Thanksgiving (Canada) / 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 away. An Italian
study group called the Colombiani
detected this change. / Fontinaia (Ancient 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. / Battle Festival
(Japan)
Oct. 15 Cayenne Holiday ( French Guiana) / Teacher's Day in
Brazil
National Bologna Day is October the 24th.... why not?
Oct. 16 Boss's Day ( U.S.) / School Librarian Day (U. S. ) / World Food Day / National Feral Cat Day ( U.S.) So if you happen to work in a library where the boss is a feral cat and you like to eat THIS is your day!
Oct. 17 Wear Something Gaudy Day ( U.S.) / Hawkes Bay
Anniversary (New Zealand) / Black Poetry
Day (U.S.) / International Day for the Eradication of Poverty / Shoe Size Day
(U.S.) I'm not even going to make a sarcastic guess about the reason for this
one.
Oct. 18 Alaska Day
(U.S.) / World Toy Camera Day (International) Despite all the smart phones and
digital camera this is still a going thing.
Oct. 19 Person's Day ( Canada) / Birth of the Bab (Baha'i) /
Evaluate Your Life Day (U.S.) No thanks, everybody puts denial down, but it can
be a force for good too.
Oct. 20 Khalkeia (Ancient Greek) Festival honoring Goddess
Athena and God Hephaistos for the gifts of their wisdom and crafts. /
Brandied Fruit Day (U.S.) Day for
honoring fruit for the fact that is may have been brandied. It was on this date in 1955 that The Return
of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien was published.
Oct. 21 Sweetest Day (U.S.) Held the 3rd Sunday in October
it is a day to do good deeds for the underprivileged and forgotten. / Feast of
the Black Christ / Apple Day / Overseas Chinese Day (China) Is this held in
China for those overseas or overseas? If they are doing it in China for those
overseas it seems kind of pointless as they are overseas and not there to enjoy
it, just wondering / Trafalgar Day (England.)
Oct. 22 Kuan Yin or Goddess of Mercy Day (Chinese) / Labour
Day (New Zealand) Again with another labor day! As this day is about labor
could we like, I don't know, organize it or something so it's not all over the
place? / Shakyamuni Buddha Day (Tibetan Buddhists) Day to meditate on the
Buddha's teachings and strive to fulfill the Precepts.
Oct. 23 Feast of Hecate (Ancient Greek) / Chulalongkorn Day
(Thailand). Annual commemoration of King Chulalongkorn who abolished slavery in
Thailand in 1910. None the less there was a news story recently about thousands
of Thai nationals being held in what could only be called slavery..... however
as this was taking place in the United States I guess it doesn't count. / Mole
Day (Chemist in America… no really) an unofficial holiday celebrated among
chemists in North America between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM, making the date 6:02
10/23 in the American style of writing dates. The time and date are derived
from the Avogadro constant, which is approximately 6.022×1023, defining the
number of particles (atoms or molecules) in a "mole," one of the
seven base SI units… whatever the hell those are.
Oct. 24 United Nations Day (International) / Dussehra or
Dassera or Vijayadashmi (Hinduism) Triumph of good over evil festival /National
Bologna Day (U.S.) Or as some call it, Texas stake. / Maimakterion Noumenia
(Ancient Greek) Festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses, Flutes were
played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, food was
burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. /
Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show arrives in Green Town, Illinois.
Something Wicked This Way Comes. Ray Bradbury.
Oct. 25 Eid-al-adha
(Islam) starting as sunset. / Thanksgiving Day (Grenada) commemorates Invasion
of Grenada / Thanksgiving Day (Virgin Islands)
Oct. 26 National Pumpkin Day (U.S.)
Oct. 27 Navy Day (U.S.)
Oct. 28 Mother-in-Law's Day ( U.S.) Insert lame joke by old
school Catskills comic here. / Ochi
(Greek) Greek for "No" which is what they told Hitler when he tried
to occupy Greece / Separation of Church & State Day (U.S.) It was 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. / Reformation Day (Lutheran)
Oct. 29 Feast of the Dead. (Iroquois) / Internet Day
Oct. 30. Fast of the Bodhisattva, Goddess Tara (Tibetan
Buddhists) / Haunted Refrigerator Night (Huh?) A “holiday” that was created and
owned by copyright by a Thomas
& Ruth Roy, therefore I will say no more about it / The
delegations from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang arrive at Hogwarts. In Harry Potter
and the Goblet of Fire.
Oct. 31 Halloween ( U.S. Canada and some other places) /
Samhain (Pagan) Australia, South America & Sub Sahara Africa, you're on
your own as to what to call it. / Allantide (Cornwall)
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