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Category: Anniversaries & Historic Events
Events, awareness days, holidays, and promotions related to historical anniversaries.
This category covers historical events that fall on or near a specific day (or sometimes a month). It may be a birthday, a death day, a patent filing, or an event in the news. .
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Native American Day (US-SD)(1492): October...
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Native American Day is an official state holiday in South Dakota and an alternative to Columbus Day. It celebrates Native American heroes and trailblazers. It is part of a growing movement against celebra...
January
USS Cole (YE)(2000): October 12
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On October 12, 2000, the USS Cole, a Navy guided-missile destroyer (DDG-67), was hit by an Al Qaida terrorist attack while harboring and refueling in Aden, Yemen. Seventeen American sailors were killed...
January
Columbus Day (US)(1492): October 13
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Columbus Day is also called Indigenous Peoples Day in the United States. Columbus Day was an official holiday in the United States, created by a joint Congressional/Presidential resolution on April 30,...
January
Good Samaritan Day (2011): October 13*
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Today is one of two Good Samaritan Days each year. Good Samaritan Day is named after the Parable of the Good Samaritan from the New Testament of the Bible, Luke 10:25-37. The first God Samaritan Day was...
January
Independence Day Holiday, (FJ)(1970): Octo...
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Independence Day in Fiji marks the anniversary of October 10, 1970, the official day of independence from Britain. Independence Day is a national holiday celebrated on the 2nd Monday in October.
January
Indigenous Peoples' Day, Ntl., (1492): Oct...
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In 2021, after a rise of activism to recognize indigenous people in the United States rather than their colonizers, President Biden proclaimed the first-ever National Indigenous Peoples' Day. The followin...
January
Saint Edward's Feast Day (1163): October 1...
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Saint Edward the Confessor was born to King Ethelred II in Islip, England, in 1003 AD. Though he died in 1066, his remains were transferred to his final resting place on October 13, 1163. This day has bee...
January
Liberation Day (YE)(1963): October 14
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ENDING BRITISH COLONIAL RULE: LIBERATION DAY IN YEMEN The October 14, 1963, revolution in Yemen marks a significant turning point in the country's history. It began the armed struggle against British col...
January
Dictionary Day, Intl. (1758): October 16
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International Dictionary Day marks the anniversary of the birth of Noah Webster, a political writer, spelling reformer, editor, and prolific author. Born on October 16, 1758, Webster is best known for h...
January
African-American, Black Poetry Day (1711):...
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African-American Poetry Day marks the anniversary of the birth of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island, New York, in 1711. Hammond was the first African American to publish poetry in the United States. At the...
January
Poverty Eradication, Intl. Day for (1987):...
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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty was first designated in 1993 by the UN General Assembly. Its purpose is to promote awareness of the cost of poverty to society, the environment, and nation...
January
Birth of the Bab (1819): October 18
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The founder of the Baha'i faith (a breakaway from Islam), Sayyid Ali Muhammad, was born on this day, October 18, 1819, in Shiraz, Persia (Iran). Followers of the Baha'i faith do not work on this day.
January
Independence Day Holiday, (AZ)(1991): Octo...
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Independence Day in Azerbaijan marks the anniversary of October 18, 1991, when the nation separated from the Soviet Union. Independence Day is a national holiday.
January
Person's Day (CA)(1929): October 18
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On October 18, 1929, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in England ruled in the women's favor on whether women are "persons" according to the law. As persons, women would have the right to vote a...
January
Birth of the Baha'u'llah, (1817): October...
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Known as the Divine Educator and a prophet of the Baha'i Faith, Baha'u'llah was born on this day, October 19, 1817. His birthday is a religious holiday in the faith.
January
Gin and Tonic Day, Intl. (2010): October 1...
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International Gin and Tonic Day marks the anniversary of the death of Gin and Tonic lover Mary Edith Keyburn, October 19th, 2010. She was 95 and passed away in the hospital with smuggled gin and tonic at...
January
Yorktown Day, Virginia (US-VA)(1781): Octo...
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October 19, 1781, marks the last major battle of the American Revolution. American and French troops defeated the British at Yorktown. Every year the city of Yorktown, Virginia, celebrates this event with...
January
Gadhafi Assassination (2011): October 20
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Today marks the anniversary of the assassination of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. Muammar Gaddafi (often spelled Qaddafi or other variants) was a Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who...
January
Jotijot, Gurgadi (S)(1661): October 20
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Guru Har Rai, the seventh of ten gurus in the Sikh faith, passed away on this day in 1661. His youngest son, Har Krishan, was nominated to be a guru on this day, in the same year, at the tender age of fiv...
January
Mashujaa Day (KE)(1952): October 20
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On October 20, 1952, Kenya's first president (as yet a revolutionary), Jomo Kenyatta, and five colleagues were arrested by British colonial forces. That event is the origin of this holiday, initially call...
January
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