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