Important Days of the Year in October Celebrated all over the world Country Specific with Description

October 01:

• Children's Day (Singapore)


• Earliest day on which World Habitat Day can fall, while October 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of October. (International)


• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Cyprus from United Kingdom in 1960.


• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Nigeria from United Kingdom in 1960.


• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Palau from the UN Trust Territory status in 1994.


• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Tuvalu from United Kingdom in 1978.


• International Day of Older Persons (International)


• Moving Day (New York City from the mid-19th century to c.1945)


• National Day of the People's Republic of China (China)


• World Vegetarian Day (from North American Vegetarian Society)

October 02: 

• Gandhi's birthday-related observances:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  • International Day of Non-Violence (International)
  
  
  
  


• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Guinea from France in 1958.

October 03:

• German Unity Day (Germany)


• National Day, celebrates the independence of Iraq from the United Kingdom in 1932.


• National Foundation Day or Gaecheonjeol (South Korea)

October 04:

• Cinnamon Roll Day or kanelbullens dag (Sweden) http://hallosushant.blogspot.com/


• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Lesotho from Great Britain in 1966.


• The beginning of World Space Week (International)


• World Animal Day (International)

October 05:

• Republic Day (Portugal)


• World Teachers' Day (International)


• Armed Forces Day (Indonesia)

October 06:

• German-American Day (United States)


• Armed Forces Day, commemorates the October War in 1973. (Egypt)

October 08:

• Independence Day, celebrate the official separation of Croatia from Yugoslavia in 1991.


• Navy Day (Peru)


• Discoverer's Day (Hawaii)

October 09:

• Hangul Day (South Korea)


• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uganda from United Kingdom in 1962.


• Independence of Guayaquil from Spain in 1820 (Guayaquil)


• Leif Erikson Day (United States, Iceland and Norway)


• National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust (Romania)

October 10:

• Double Ten Day (雙十國慶), celebrate outbreak of the Wuchang Insurgence that led to founding of the Republic of China or Taiwan in 1911. http://hallosushant.blogspot.com/


• Fiji Day, celebrate the independence of Fiji from United Kingdom in 1970.


• National Health-Sports Day until 2000; since made a moveable feast on the second Monday in October. (Japan)


• Party Foundation Day, the foundation of the Workers' Party of Korea (North Korea)


• The Day of Finnish literature, birthday of the National writer Aleksis Kivi. (Finland)


• World Mental Health Day (International)

October 11:

• National Coming Out Day (Multinational, including United Kingdom, Switzerland, and United States among others.)


• Old Michelmas Day (Celtic)


• Revolution Day (Republic of Macedonia)

October 12:

• Freethought Day (United States)


• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Equatorial Guinea from Spain in 1968.


• Mother's Day (Malawi)


• National Coming Out Day (United Kingdom)


• Children's Day or Feast of Our Lady of Aparecida (Brazil)

Discovery of America by Columbus-related observances:

• Día de la Hispanidad or Fiesta Nacional de España (Spain)


• Día de la Raza, "Day of the Race" (Latin America)


• Día de la Resistencia Indígena, "Day of Indigenous Resistance" (Venezuela)


• Día de las Américas, "Day of the Americas" (Uruguay)


• Día de las Culturas, "Day of the Cultures" (Costa Rica)


• Discovery Day (the Bahamas)

October 13:National Police Day (Thailand)



October 14:

• National Education Day, formerly Teachers' Day (Poland)


• Nyerere Day (Tanzania)


• World Standards Day (International)

October 15:

• Global Handwashing Day (International observance|International)


• Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day (Canada and the United States)


• Teachers' Day (Brazil)


• The Equirria or October equus, sacrifice of a horse to Mars. (Roman Empire)


• White Cane Safety Day (United States)

October 16:

• Day of Pope John Paul II (Poland)


• World Food Day (International)


• Boss's Day (United States and Canada)

October 17:

• Dessalines Day (Haiti)


• International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (International)


• Loyalty Day (Argentina)


• National Edge Day (Straight edge movement)

October 18:Alaska Day (Alaska)



October 19:

• Constitution Day, in honor of the country's independence (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) in 1974. (Niue) http://hallosushant.blogspot.com/


• Independence Day of State of Piauí (Brazil)


• Mother Teresa Day (Albania)

October 20:

• Kenyatta Day (Kenya)


• Revolution Day, one of the two Patriotic Days (Guatemala)

October 21:

• International Day of the Nacho (Mexico and USA)


• National Nurses' Day (Thailand)


• Overseas Chinese Day (Republic of China)


• Trafalgar Day (the British Empire in the 19th and early 20th Century)


• Apple Day (United Kingdom)

October 22:

• Fechner Day, celebrated by Psychophysicists


• International Stuttering Awareness Day

October 23:

• Chulalongkorn Day (Thailand)


• Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle (Republic of Macedonia)


• Mole Day (Chemists)


• National Day (Hungary)

October 24:

• Independence Day, celebrate the independence of (Zambia) from United Kingdom in 1964.


• Maladay (Discordianism) http://hallosushant.blogspot.com/


• United Nations Day, the anniversary of the 1945 Charter of the United Nations (International)


• World Development Information Day (International)

October 25:

• Republic Day (Kazakhstan)


• Retrocession Day (Taiwan)


• Thanksgiving Day (Grenada)


• Armed Forces Day (Romania)

October 26:

• National Day, celebrates the anniversary of the Declaration of Neutrality in 1955. (Austria)


• The first day of Ludi Victoriae Sullanae, celebrated until November 1. (Roman Empire)


• Angam Day (Nauru)

October 27: 

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from Britain in 1979. http://hallosushant.blogspot.com/


• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Turkmenistan from USSR in 1991.


• Navy Day, first organized to be on this day. (United States)

October 28:

• Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak State, celebrates the independence of Czechoslovakia from Austria-Hungary in 1918.(Slovakia)


• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Czechoslovakia from Austria-Hungary in 1918.


• Ochi Day (Greece, Cyprus and the Greek communities)


• Prefectural Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day (Gifu Prefecture)

October 29:

• Coronation Day (Cambodia)


• Republic Day or Cumhuriyet Bayramı (Turkey)

October 30:

• Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions (former Soviet republics, except Ukraine)


• Mischief Night (United States)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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October 31:

• Halloween


• Reformation Day (Slovenia and Protestant Church)


• Samhain in the northern hemisphere, Beltane in the southern hemisphere; begins on sunset of October 31 (Gaels, Welsh people and Neopagans)


• Allantide (Cornwall, United Kingdom)

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• BBC: On This Day


• The New York Times: On This Day


• Wikipedia October

Important Days of the Year in January Celebrated all over the world Country Specific with Description

January 01:

• Christian Feast Day


• Happy New Year

January 02: Berchtold’s Day (Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Alsace)



January 04: Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Myanmar from the United Kingdom in 1948.



January 05: National Bird Day, celebrated semiannually. (United States)



January 06: Befana Day (Italy)

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January 07:  Distaff Day (medieval Europe) & Tricolour day or Festa del Tricolore (Italy)



January 08: Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands)



January 09:

• Martyrs' Day, commemorates the 1964 riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone. (Panama)http://hallosushant.blogspot.com/


• Republic Day (Republika Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina)

January 10: Traditional Day (Benin)



January 11:

• Independence Resistance Day (Morocco)


• Republic Day (Albania)

January 12 :

• National Youth Day (India)


• Zanzibar Revolution Day (Tanzania)

January 13: St. Knut's Day or Tjugondag Knut, the last day of Christmas. (Sweden and Finland)



January 14:

• National Forest Conservation Day (Thailand)


• Makar Sankranti (India)


• The first day of Pongal, a Tamil New Year. (Tamil)

January 15 :

• John Chilembwe Day (Malawi)


• Korean Alphabet Day (North Korea)


• Army Day


• Maatu Pongal, celebrated by performing Jallikattu (Tamil)

January 16:

• National Religious Freedom Day (United States)


• Teacher's Day (Thailand)

January 18: Royal Thai Armed Forces Day (Thailand)



January 19:

• Confederate Heroes Day (Texas)


• Founders Day (Kappa Alpha Order Convivium)

January 21:

• Flag Day (Quebec)


• Lady of Altagracia Day (Dominican Republic)


• National Hug Day (United States)

January 23: Bounty Day, celebrate the burning of the Bounty in 1790 (Pitcairn Island)





January 25:

• Criminon Day (Scientology)


• Tatiana Day, celebrated as the Day of Russian Students since 1755, when Moscow University is founded. (Russia)http://hallosushant.blogspot.com/

January 26 :

• Liberation Day (Uganda)


• Republic Day, one of only three national holidays in India, celebrated with pomp and pageantry with a military parade in New Delhi and across the rest of the nation. (India)


• International Customs day.


• Australia Day (Australia)

January 27:

• Holocaust Memorial Day (United Kingdom


• International Holocaust Remembrance Day (International)


• Memorial Day or Il Giorno della Memoria (Italy)

January 28: Data Privacy Day





January 29: Constitution Day (Gibraltar)



January 30 :

• Martyrs' Day (India)


• School Day of Non-violence and Peace (Spain)

January 31:

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of (Nauru) from Australia in 1968.


• World Leprosy Day (International)

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