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