Important Dates: October 2018

Days

1^st International Day of Older Persons Link

1^st International Coffee Day Link

1^st World Vegetarian Day Link

1^st World Habitat Day Link

4^th National Poetry Day Link

5^th World Teachers Day Link

5^th Byte Night Link

5^th World Smile Day Link

6^th World Cerebral Palsy Day Link

9^th World Post Day Link

9^th Ada Lovelace Day Link

10^th World Mental Health Day Link

11^th World Sight Day Link

11^th International Day of the Girl Child Link

11^th National Coming Out Day Link

12^th World Egg Day Link

12^th The Big Pink Link

12^th World Arthritis Day Link

12^th International Foster Carer Appreciation Day Link

13^th International Day for Disaster Reduction Link

13^th World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Link

15^th Global Hand washing Day Link

15^th Global Wave of Light Link

16^th World Food Day Link

17^th International Day for the Eradication Of Poverty Link

18^th World Values Day Link

18^th Anti Slavery Day Link

18^th International Credit Union Day Link

19^th Wear It Pink Link

19^th Epilepsy Action 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 World Polio Day Link

23^rd Sudep Action Day Link

24^th United Nations Day Link

25^th-27^th Museums at Night Link

27^th World Day for AudioVisual Heritage Link

27^th National Mentoring Day Link

27^th/28^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

1^st-5^th Malnutrition Awareness Week

1^st-5^th National Work Life Week Link

1^st-7th Dyslexia Awareness Week Link

2^nd-6^th Humphreys Pyjama Week Link

4^th-10^th World Space Week Link

7^th-13^th Dyspraxia Awareness Week Link

8^th -12^th Backcare Awareness Week Link

8^th-14^th British Egg Week Link

8^th-21^st Wool Week Link

8^th-14^th National Braille Week Link

8^th-13^th Libraries Week Link

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

15^th-21^st Chocolate Week Link

15^th-21^st National Baking Week Link

15^th-21^st National Adoption Week Link

20^th-27^th International Brain Tumour Awareness Week Link

21^st 28^th One World Week Link

22^nd-28^th National Curry Week Link

29^th-4^th Nov UK Sausage Week Link

Months

Black History Awareness Month Link

Breast Cancer Awareness Month Link

Domestic Violence Awareness Month Link

Family Learning Festival Link

International Walk to School Month  Link

International School Library Month   Link

Lupus Awareness Month Link

National Cholesterol Month Link

Stoptober Month Link

The Big Draw Link

October Religious Days   

1^st Shemini Atzeret (Jewish)

2^nd  Simchat Torah (Jewish)

4^th St Francis Day (Christian)

8^th Thanksgiving Canada (Interfaith)

9^th-16^th Navaratri (Hindu)

18^th St Luke (Christian)

19^th Dasara (Hindu)

20^th Birth of the Bab (Bahai)

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

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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