OCTOBER

   
1st

National Day of the People's Republic of China

Republic of Cyprus, Nigeria, Tuvalu - Independence Day

San Marino - two Captains Regent, elected by parliament, take office for six months. 

Singapore - Children's Day 

Armenia - Teachers' Day 

2nd

Guinea - Independence Day 

India - Gandhi Jayanti (birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, 1869) 

International Day of Non-Violence to commomerate birthday of Mahatma Gandhi 

Judaism - Fast of Gedalia 

3rd

Germany - Day of German Unity 

Leiden - Siege of Leiden 

South Korea - National Foundation Day (Gaecheonjeol ???) 

4th

Lesotho - Independence Day (from Britain, 1966). 

5th

Portugal - Republic Day, celebrates overthrow of the Monarchy in 1910 

Indonesia - Army Day 

Christianity - Hor and Susia in the Coptic Church 

7th

East Germany - Republic Day 

8th

Bolivia - reportedly, Che Guevara is honoured on this day at which he was captured in La Higuera, as San Ernesto

Croatia - Independence Day 

Peru - Peru Croatia avy Day

9th

South Korea - Hangul Day: celebrating the invention of hangul, the native Korean phonetic alphabet. 

Uganda - Independence Day

Ecuador - Guayaquil's Independence Day (from Spain 1820) (Dia de la independencia de Guayaquil) 

Romania - Romanian Holocaust Remembrance Day 

10th

Fiji - Fiji Day (National Day) 

Old Michelmas - Celtic holiday 

North Korea - Party Foundation Party (celebration of the founding of the Workers Party of Korea) 

Finland - The Day of Finnish literature 

11th

United States - National Coming Out Day 

Republic of Macedonia - Revolution Day 

12th

Equatorial Guinea - Independence Day

Malawi - Mother's Day 

Spain - National Day 

United States - Columbus Day (traditionally) 

Latin America - El Dia de la Raza 

Brazil - Children's Day and the day of Our Lady of Aparecida (National Religious holiday). 

14th

Poland - Teachers' Day, or National Education Day

Republic of Moldova - Hramul Orasului

17th

Haiti - Death of Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1806), State holiday 

19th

Albania - Mother Teresa Day. 

Niue - Constitution Day in honour of the country's independence (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) in 1974. 

Hinduism - Hindu Festivals, Concluding of Navratri Festival of India. It is a nine day festival attributed to the Goddess Durga, the Supreme-Divine manifested in form of Mother. The 10th day, Hindus celebrate Dasara, the mark of Lord Rama's victory over demon Ravana - Goddess Durga Day. 

20th

Bahá'í Faith - Holy Day - Birth of the Báb

23rd

Hungary - National Day (revolution of 1956 and the proclamation of the Republic of Hungary in 1989) 

Republic of Macedonia - Day of the revolution 

Thailand - Chulalongkorn Memorial Day

25th

Grenada - Thanksgiving Day (commemorates Invasion of Grenada) 

Kazakhstan - Republic Day 

Virgin Islands - Thanksgiving Day 

29th

Turkey - Republic Day

Cambodia - Coronation Day of Norodom Sihamoni

31st

Protestant Church, Slovenia - Reformation Day: Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the Wittenberg church on this day in 1517 

Christianity - Halloween

Cornwall - Allantide 

Paganism and Celts - Samhain