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Events In October 2025
Database of events, awareness days, holidays, and promotions occurring in October of this year.
October Events
Estate Planning Awareness Week, Ntl.: Octo...
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More than half of Americans, an estimated 56%, do not have an estate plan, making estate planning a critically overlooked component of financial health. National Estate Planning Awareness Week (H. Res. 1...
October
Freedom of Speech Week: October 20-26
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Ever since the concept of free speech was added to the Bill of Rights via the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1791, there have been vast differences in opinion as to how exactly this phrase is...
October
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...
October
Health Education Week, Ntl.: October 20-24
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National Health Education Week is sponsored by the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) and has been observed since 1995, during the third week of October. The focus of the National Health Educat...
October
Heritage Week, Ntl., (JM): October 20-26
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National Heritage Week honors Jamaica's heroes, one per day, beginning with the first prime minister and a leader in its fight for independence in the early 20th century, Alexander Bustamante. National He...
October
Heroes Day, Ntl., (JM): October 20
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Heroes Day honors Jamaica's first prime minister and a leader in its fight for independence in the early 20th century, Alexander Bustamante. National Heroes Day is an official national holiday that occurs...
October
HIP Week (CA): October 20-24 (est)
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HIP Week (Health Information Professionals Week) is an annual event in Canada that celebrates and recognizes the contributions of health information professionals (HIPs). HIP Week is typically held duri...
October
Hurricane Thanksgiving Day (VI/VG): Octobe...
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Celebrated in the British and US Virgin Islands, Hurricane Thanksgiving Day celebrates surviving the peak of Hurricane season in the Caribbean. Legal holiday. Technically, the hurricane season runs for f...
October
Information Overload Day: October 20
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Information Overload Day discusses the issue of information overload and how it affects our lives and diminishes productivity and quality of life among knowledge workers worldwide. Created by the Israeli...
October
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...
October
Male Breast Cancer Awareness Day (AU): Oct...
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October in Australia is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. October 20 is set aside as Male Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Though rare in men, breast cancer does occur and claims dozens of lives each ye...
October
Mashujaa Day (KE)(1952): October 20
Daily
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...
October
Medical Assistants Week: October 20-24
Weekly
The third complete working week of October is Medical Assistants Week, a time to honor and appreciate medical assistants in all areas of health care and their immeasurable contribution to saving people's...
October
Miss American Rose Day: October 20
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Miss American Rose Day encourages people to do a day of community service and present the women in their life with a single rose of appreciation. It's a day to treat every American woman in your life like...
October
Narak Chaturdashi (H): October 20
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Naraka Chaturdashi (Kali Chaudas, Roop Chaudas, Bhoot Chaturdashi, and Naraka Nivaran Chaturdashi) is a Hindu holiday that falls on the second day of the five-day festival Diwali. Hindu mythology teache...
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