Important Dates: October 2016 |
Days
1st International Day of Older Persons Link
1st World Vegetarian Day Link
3rd World Habitat Day Link
4th World Animal Day Link
5th World Teachers Day Link
5th National Personal Safety Day Link
6th National Poetry Day Link
7th Byte Night Link
7th World Smile Day Link
8th King Harold Day Link
8th World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Link
9th World Post Day Link
10th World Mental Health Day Link
11th Ada Lovelace Day Link
12th World Arthritis Day Link
13th International Day for Disaster Reduction Link
13th World Sight Day Link
15th Global Hand washing Day Link
15th Conflict Resolution Day Link
16th World Food Day Link
18th Anti Slavery Day Link
20th International Credit Union Day Link
20th World Osteoporosis Day Link
21st Apple Day Link
21st Trafalgar Day Link
21st Wear It Pink Link
22nd International Stammering Awareness Day Link
22nd Make a Difference Day Link
24th United Nations Day Link
29th World Psoriasis Day Link
29th World Stroke Day Link
30th Clocks go back
31st National Bug Busting Day Link
31st Hallowe’en
Weeks
3rd-7th Humphreys Pyjama Week Link
3rd-8th Backcare Awareness Week Link
4th-10th World Space Week Link
9th-15th Baby Loss Awareness Week Link
10th-16th Wool Week Link
10th-16th National Braille Week Link
10th-16th National Curry Week Link
10th-16th Chocolate Week Link
10th-17th British Egg Week Link
15th-30th Family Learning Festival Link
17th-23rd National Baking Week Link
23rd-30th One World Week Link
26th-31st National Lorry 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
1st-10th Navaratri (Hindu)
2nd Muharram (Islam)
3rd-4th Rosh Hashanah (Jewish)
11th Dasara (Hindu)
12th Ashura (Islam)
12th Yom Kippur (Jewish)
17th-23rd Sukkot (Jewish)
18th St Luke (Christian)
20th Birth of the Bab (Bahai)
20th Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth (Sikh)
24th Shemini Atzeret (Jewish)
25th Simchat Torah (Jewish)
30th Diwali (Hindu, Sikh, Jain)
31st All Hallows Eve (Christian)
31st Wicca (Pagan)
31st New Year (Jain)
October National Days
1st China: National Day
1st Cyprus: National Day
1st Nigeria: Republic Day 1 Palau: National Day
1st Tuvalu: Independence Day
2nd Guinea: National Day
3rd Germany: National Day
4th Lesotho: National Day
9th Uganda: Independence Day
10th Taiwan: National Day 10 Fiji: National Day
12th Equatorial Guinea: National Day
12th Spain: National Day
19th Niue: National Day
21st Somalia: The Twenty-First of October Revolution
22nd Holy See: Anniversary, Pontifical Ministry of HH Pope John Paul II
24th Zambia: Independence Day
26th Austria: National Day
27th St Vincent and the Grenadines: National Day
27th Turkmenistan: National Day
28th Czech Republic: National Day
29th Turkey: Republic Day
October This Day in History
1st The People’s Republic of China proclaimed (1949)
3rd East and West Germany are reunited after 45 years (1990)
4th First English translation of the entire bible printed (1535)
4th Soviet satellite Sputnik is the first man-made object in space (1957)
4th Battle of Mogadishu (1993)
5th Jarrow March – 200 men from Tyneside march to parliament in London (1936)
6th First talking film – Al Jolson in the Jazz Singer – shown in USA (1927)
6th Yom Kippur War – Egypt and Syria attack Israel (1973)
6th President Anwar Sadat of Egypt assassinated (1981)
10th Emmeline Pankhurst forms Women’s Social & Political Union – women’s rights movement (1903)
12th Christopher Columbus lands in Bahamas (1492)
14th William defeats Harold in the Battle of Hastings (1066)
16th Marie Antionette is guillotined in Paris (1793)
21st Nelson is killed at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
21st Florence Nightingale leaves England for the Crimean War (1854)
22nd First ever parachute jump – by Andre-Jacques Garnerin from balloon over Paris (1797)
23rd Edgehill, the first major battle of English Civil War (1642)
23rd Hungarian Revolution begins (1956)
24th Black Thursday begins Wall Street Crash in New York (1929)
24th United Nations begins (1945)
25th Battle of Agincourt (1415)
25th Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)
31st Indira Gandhi killed (1984)
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