October - October Events and Holidays

October Events and Holidays

  • National Fire Prevention Week (United States and Canada) - October 7–13, 2012
  • Children's Book Week (England) – First Week of October
  • National Day (China, People's Republic of) – October 1
  • Dashain in Nepal
  • Independence Day in the Republic of Cyprus – October 1
  • Independence Day in Nigeria – October 1
  • Gandhi Jayanthi in India. Birthday of Mahathma Gandhi. - October 2
  • International Day of Non-Violence – October 2
  • German Unity Day (Germany) – October 3
  • Proclamation of Portuguese Republic (Portugal) – October 5
  • World Animal Day - October 4
  • International World Teachers' day – October 5
  • Armed Forces Day in Egypt commemorating the Yom Kippur War – October 6
  • World Architecture Day - First Monday of October (established by the International Union of Architects (UIA) to celebrate architecture worldwide.)
  • Lupus Awareness Month
  • Independence day in Croatia – October 8
  • Clergy Appreciation day - October 9
  • National Children Appreciation Day - October 9
  • Leif Erikson Day - October 9
  • National Day (Taiwan，Republic of China) – October 10
  • National Coming Out Day – October 11
  • Freethought Day – October 12
  • National Day of Spain – October 12 (Discovery of America)
  • Thanksgiving (Canada) – Second Monday of October
  • Health and Sports Day (Japan) – Second Monday of October
  • Columbus Day (Most of United States) – Second Monday of October
  • Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day - October 15
  • World Food Day – October 16
  • Alaska Day - October 18
  • Constitution Day in Niue – October 19
  • Spirit Day - October 20
  • Apple Day – October 21
  • Remembering the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 – October 23
  • United Nations Day – October 24
  • Day of the Romanian Army – October 25
  • National Day of Austria - October 26
  • Independence Day in St. Vincent & the Grenadines – October 27
  • Independence Day in Turkmenistan – October 27
  • Navy Day (United States) – October 27
  • Ochi Day (No Day) in Greece – October 28
  • Republic Day in Turkey – October 29
  • Reformation Day in Slovenia - October 31
  • Halloween, Samhain – October 31

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Famous quotes containing the words october and/or events:

    “Especially when the October wind
    With frosty fingers punishes my hair,”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)