Important Dates: October 2017

Days

1^st International Day of Older Persons Link

1^st World Vegetarian Day Link

2^nd World Habitat Day Link

4^th World Animal Day www.worldanimalday.org.uk

5^th World Teachers Day Link

5^th National Personal Safety Day Link

6^th Byte Night Link

6^th World Smile Day Link

7^th King Harold Day Link

9^th World Post Day Link

10^th World Mental Health Day Link

10^th Ada Lovelace Day Link

12^th World Arthritis Day Link

12^th World Sight Day Link

13^th International Day for Disaster Reduction Link

14^th World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Link

15^th Global Hand washing Day Link

16^th World Food Day Link

18^th Anti Slavery Day Link

19^th International Credit Union Day Link

19^th Conflict Resolution Day Link

20^th Wear It Pink Link

20^th World Osteoporosis Day Link

21^st Apple Day Link

21^st Trafalgar Day Link

22^nd International Stammering Awareness Day Link

24^th United Nations Day Link

28^th Make a Difference Day Link

28/29^th Clocks go back

29^th World Psoriasis Day Link

29^th World Stroke Day Link

31^st National Bug Busting Day Link

31^st Hallowe’en

Weeks

2^nd-6^th National Work Life Week Link

2^nd-6^th Humphreys Pyjama Week Link

2^nd-6^th Backcare Awareness Week Link

2^nd-8^th Dyslexia Awareness Week Link

4^th-10^th World Space Week Link      

7^th-22^nd Wool Week Link

9^th-15^th Baby Loss Awareness Week Link

9^th-15^th National Braille Week Link

9^th-15^th National Curry Week Link

9^th-15^th Chocolate Week Link

9^th-15^th British Egg Week Link

13^th-21^st National Knitting Week Link

14^th-29^th Family Learning Festival Link

16^th-22^nd National Baking Week Link

22^nd-29^th One World Week Link

Months

Black History Awareness Month Link

Breast Cancer Awareness Month Link

International Walk to School Month  Link

International School Library Month   Link

Lupus Awareness Month Link

National Cholesterol Month Link

The Big Draw Link

October Religious Days   

1^st Ashura (Islam)

4^th St Francis Day (Christian)

5^th-11^th Sukkot (Jewish)

12^th Shemini Atzeret (Jewish)

13^th Simchat Torah (Jewish)

18^th St Luke (Christian)

19^th Diwali (Hindu, Sikh, Jain)

20^th Birth of the Bab (Bahai)

20^th Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth (Sikh)

20^th New Year (Jain)

31^st All Hallows Eve (Christian)

31^st Wicca (Pagan)

October National Days

1^st China: National Day
1^st Cyprus: National Day
1^st Nigeria: Republic Day 1 Palau: National Day
1^st Tuvalu: Independence Day
2^nd Guinea: National Day
3^rd Germany: National Day
4^th Lesotho: National Day
9^th Uganda: Independence Day
10^th Taiwan: National Day 10 Fiji: National Day
12^th Equatorial Guinea: National Day
12^th Spain: National Day
19^th Niue: National Day
21^st Somalia: The Twenty-First of October Revolution
22^nd Holy See: Anniversary, Pontifical Ministry of HH Pope John Paul II
24^th Zambia: Independence Day
26^th Austria: National Day
27^th St Vincent and the Grenadines: National Day
27^th Turkmenistan: National Day
28^th Czech Republic: National Day
29^th Turkey: Republic Day

October This Day in History

1^st The People’s Republic of China proclaimed (1949)

3^rd East and West Germany are reunited after 45 years (1990)

4^th First English translation of the entire bible printed (1535)

4^th Soviet satellite Sputnik is the first man-made object in space (1957)

4^th Battle of Mogadishu (1993)

5^th Jarrow March – 200 men from Tyneside march to parliament in London (1936)

6^th First talking film – Al Jolson in the Jazz Singer – shown in USA (1927)

6^th Yom Kippur War – Egypt and Syria attack Israel (1973)

6^th President Anwar Sadat of Egypt assassinated (1981)

10^th Emmeline Pankhurst forms Women’s Social & Political Union – women’s rights movement (1903)

12^th Christopher Columbus lands in Bahamas (1492)

14^th William defeats Harold in the Battle of Hastings (1066)

16^th Marie Antionette is guillotined in Paris (1793)

21^st Nelson is killed at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805)

21^st Florence Nightingale leaves England for the Crimean War (1854)

22^nd First ever parachute jump – by Andre-Jacques Garnerin from balloon over Paris (1797)

23^rd Edgehill, the first major battle of English Civil War (1642)

23^rd Hungarian Revolution begins (1956)

24^th Black Thursday begins Wall Street Crash in New York (1929)

24^th United Nations begins (1945)

25^th Battle of Agincourt (1415)

25^th Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)

31^st Indira Gandhi killed (1984)

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