- Roman Empire - Meditrinalia is held in honor of Meditrina
- RC Saints - memorial of the blessed Pope John XXIII; Saints Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus; Alexander Sauli;
- United States - National Coming Out Day
- Republic of Macedonia - Revolution Day
World-wide Holidays
Friday, October 10, 2008
World-wide holidays: 11 October
Holidays and observances
Thursday, October 9, 2008
World-wide holidays: 10 October
Holidays and observances
- RC Saints - Saint Thomas of Villanueva? ; Saint Paulinus of York (in England); Viktor of Xanten; Saint Cerbonius
- Republic of China (Taiwan) - National Day (Double Ten Day 雙十國慶)
- Fiji - Fiji Day (National Day)
- Japan - National Health-Sports Day until 2000; since made a moveable feast on the second Monday in October.
- World Mental Health Day
- Old Michelmas - Celtic holiday
- French Republican Calendar - Tournesol (Sunflower) Day, nineteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
- North Korea - Party Foundation Party (celebration of the founding of the Workers Party of Korea)
- Finland - The Day of Finnish literature
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
World-wide holidays: 09 October
Holidays and observances
- RC Saints - Saint Denis, Saint Ghislain, Saint John Leonardi and Saint Louis Bertrand, patron saint of Colombia.
- South Korea - Hangul Day: celebrating the invention of hangul, the native Korean phonetic alphabet.
- Uganda - Independence Day (from Britain, 1962)
- Leif Erikson Day - in United States, Iceland and Norway: celebrating the first European landing in North America
- Ecuador - Guayaquil's Independence Day (from Spain 1820) (Dia de la independencia de Guayaquil)
- Romania - Romanian Holocaust Remembrance Day
- French Republican Calendar - Sarrasin (Buckwheat) Day, eighteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
World-wide holidays: 08 October
Holidays and observances
- RC Saints - Palatia and Laurentia
- Bolivia - reportedly, Che Guevara is honoured on this day at which he was captured in La Higuera, as San Ernesto, answering prayers for rain.
- Also see October 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- French Republican Calendar - Citrouille (Pumpkin) Day, seventeenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
- Independence Day in Croatia
- Navy Day in Peru
Monday, October 6, 2008
World-wide holidays: 07 October
Holidays and observances
- RC Saints - Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary; formerly Saint Justina, Saint Osyth
- Feast day of Pope Mark.
- Saints Sergius and Bacchus; also see October 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- French Republican Calendar - Sixteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
- Brazil - Composer Day
Sunday, October 5, 2008
World-wide holidays: 06 October
Holidays and observances
- RC Saints - Saint Bruno, St Faith
- Also see October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Egypt - Armed Forces Day; commemorates the October war of 1973.
- U.S. - German-American Day observed since 1987
- Judaism - Fast of Gedalia (2005)
- French Republican Calendar - Âne (Donkey) Day, fifteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
Saturday, October 4, 2008
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