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Events In October 2025
Database of events, awareness days, holidays, and promotions occurring in October of this year.
October Events
Labour Day (NZ)(1862): October 27
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Labour Day in New Zealand is a national holiday honoring the work of the nation's citizens. The day celebrates the achievement of an eight-hour workday in 1840, and New Zealand was the first nation to pas...
October
Mentoring Day, Intl. (UK): October 27*
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Global Mentoring Day originated in 2015 in the United Kingdom with professional business mentor Chelsey Baker. Mentors help people learn in life and on the job and are often the key to success: teachers,...
October
Navy Day (US)(1922): October 27
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The United States Navy was established as the Continental Navy on October 13, 1775, by the Continental Congress. It authorized the procurement, fitting, manning, and dispatch of two armed vessels to cruis...
October
Sausage Week, United Kingdom: October 27 -...
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UK Sausage Week is an annual initiative of Meat Management magazine. Its purpose is to boost trade throughout the United Kingdom in meat products via butchers, manufacturers, retailers, and associations....
October
Sonographers Day, Australian (AU): October...
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Sonographers are medical imaging professionals that work with ultrasound machines in a wide variety of health disciplines. They allow doctors and nurses to see what's happening inside a person without cut...
October
Chocolate Day, Ntl.: October 28
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National Chocolate Day is one of several chocolate days on the calendar, including World Chocolate Day on July 7 and International Chocolate Day marks the birthday of Milton S. Hershey (September 13, 1857...
October
First Responders Day, Ntl.: October 28
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First Response Coalition began lobbying congress to recognize first responders with a day of honor in 2006. Each year congress reaffirms the date through house and senate resolutions. Currently, nearly fi...
October
Independence Day, (CZ)(1918): October 28
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Independence Day in the Czech Republic marks the anniversary of October 28, 1918, when the Slavic and Czech people came together to create the nation of Czechoslovakia. Independence Day is a national holi...
October
Ochi Day (GR)(1940): October 28
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"Ochi!", Greek for "No!" is what the Greeks told Mussolini and his fascist army when Italy tried to invade Greece on October 28, 1940. Ochi, ochi, ochi, Senor Mussolini! The Greeks stood their ground an...
October
Plush Animal Lover's Day: October 28
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Plush Animal Lover's Day celebrates plush animals. The legend is that it was created in the late 1980s by a collectibles dealer named Royal Selangor and that it was initially Teddy Bears Picnic Day. W...
October
Saint Jude's Day: October 28
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There will be few people alive who cannot, at one point in their lives, affiliate with Saint Jude (Judas Thaddaeus), the patron saint of lost causes. We've all been on our knees at some point; it is part...
October
Statue of Liberty Day (1886): October 28
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Statue of Liberty Day marks the anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty by President Grover Cleveland on Oct. 28, 1886. The statue, one of the most recognizable in the world, was a gift f...
October
Aliyah Day (IL): October 29
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Around 1488 BC, the Torah, the holy book of Judaism, teaches that Joshua crossed the River Jordan with the Israelites. Crossing the Jordan (an actual river) is equated with entering a new life. The Israel...
October
Black Tuesday (1929): October 29
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Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, is when the stock market collapsed, losing 13% of its value in a single day and sending the industrialized world into a ten-year economic depression. Sixteen million four...
October
Care and Support, Intl. Day of: October 29
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LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDID THING... INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CARE AND SUPPORT The International Day of Care and Support, observed annually on April 15, aims to raise awareness about the importance of care and s...
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