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Events In October 2025
Database of events, awareness days, holidays, and promotions occurring in October of this year.
October Events
Flute Tooting Day: October 4
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International Toot Your Flute Day celebrates you and all your fabulousness! While holidays celebrate special occasions, famous people, fabulous food, and super-duper inventions, today’s holiday commemora...
October
Frugal Fun Day, Intl.: October 4
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Frugal Fun Day is celebrated every year on the first Saturday in October. The day's challenge? Do not spend more than $5 on anything today. See if you can do it! You can do many activities to celebrate...
October
Fungus Day, Ntl. (UK): October 4 (est)
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UK Fungus Day, the outreach arm of the British Mycological Society (BMS), is raising awareness of fungi and fungal science by supporting nationwide events which give visitors to venues across the UK the c...
October
Independence Day, (LS)(1966): October 1
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Independence Day in Lesotho marks the anniversary of October 4, 1966, the official day of independence from Britain. Independence Day is a national holiday.
October
Kimchi Fest (US-PA): October 4 (est)
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KOREAN FOOD COMES TO PHILADELPHIA: THE KIMCHI FEST Created in 2022, the Kimchi Fest in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, celebrates the dish and Korean culture with food tables, a Korean cultura...
October
Madonna del Lume Celebration, (US-CA): Oct...
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Blessing the fishing fleet before the new season to ensure a good catch and safety for the fishermen is a tradition dating back centuries to Porticello, Italy. The Madonna del Lume (Mother of the Light) i...
October
Ships-in-a-Bottle Day: October 4
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About 1784 is when people started putting ships into bottles. Before that, German artist Matthias Buchinger experimented with objects in bottles beginning in 1719. This highly detailed hobby requires an...
October
Space Week, World (1957): October 4-10
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On October 4, 1957, Sputnik I was launched by the Soviet Union, kicking off the Space Race that would culminate in the July 1969 moon landing. The United Nations declared 1999 World Space Week to mark all...
October
Ten-Four Day: October 4
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Ten-Four is radio lingo for "I got it," "Good to go," or "Affirmative." It is part of the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code developed for citizen radio operators between 1937 and 1939. These calls were u...
October
Vodka Day, Ntl.: October 4
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"Voda" is Russian for water, and vodka is Russia's water of life. First distilled in homes during the 9th Century AD, the first commercial distillery began in 1174 AD, according to the Vyatka Chronicle...
October
American Music Awards: October 5 (est)
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Dick Clark created the American Music Awards in 1973 as an event that could replace the Grammy Awards when the latter's contract expired. The American Music Awards rely on the public's vote rather than...
October
Apple Betty Day: October 5
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An Apple Betty is an apple pie without the crust, using sugar/butter crumbles instead. Some may refer to it as a cobbler or crumble. National Apple Betty Day is an unofficial holiday with no sponsor.
October
Bed and Breakfast, Country Inn Day (US/CA)...
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The first Sunday in October recognizes all B&Bs, inns, and their keepers in the US and Canada through "National Country Inn, Bed & Breakfast Day," The event was created in 2005 by Tina Czarnota, the autho...
October
Carry a Tune Week, Ntl (1746): October 5-1...
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From William Billings and Woody Guthrie to John Denver, America has a rich history in music. National Carry a Tune Week is created by music preservationist Roger Hall to carry on the tradition of American...
October
Chic Spy Day™ (1962): October 5
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Created in 2015, and on the anniversary of the release of the first James Bond film "Dr. No" on October 5, 1962, Chic Spy Day celebrates spy craft from real spies like John André, James Armistead Lafayett...
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