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According to General Assembly resolution A/RES/61/271 of 15 June 2007, which established the commemoration, the International Day is an occasion... read more

World Smile Day is celebrated on the first Friday in the month of October every year. The idea of World Smile Day was coined and initiated by Ha... read more

In 1993 Professor Dr. Gerhard Englert proposed the idea to organize World Ostomy Day. The aim was to draw attention for people with a stoma and... read more

World Animal Day was observed on October 4th, the feast day of Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. Started in Florence Italy in 1931... read more

The General Assembly declares 4 to 10 October World Space Week to celebrate each year at the international level the contributions of space scie... read more

The idea of Ohio Violence Week was developed by the Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past, an organization that advocates for peace, tolerance and... read more

World Architect Day is celebrated on the first Monday of every October, concurrently with the United Nations’ World Habitat Day, was set up b... read more

In 1985 the United Nations designated the first Monday of October every year as World Habitat Day (Resolution 40/202 of 17 December 1985). The i... read more

UNESCO proclaimed 5 October to be World Teachers’ Day in 1994, celebrating the great step made for teachers on 5 October 1966, when a special ... read more

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed October 6 as German-American Day to celebrate and honor the 300th anniversary of German American imm... read more

World Sight Day, observed annually on the second Thursday of October, is a global event meant to draw attention on blindness and vision impairme... read more

Leif Erikson was born in Iceland and raised in Greenland. Norse sagas written 300 years after his death describe his explorations, around 1000 C... read more

Eggs are one of nature’s highest quality sources of protein, and indeed contain many of the key ingredients for life. The proteins contained w... read more

World Post Day is celebrated each year on 9 October, the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union in 1874 in the Swiss Cap... read more

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is a unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world. Voices f... read more

World Mental Health Day is observed on 10 October every year, with the overall objective of raising awareness of mental health issues around the... read more

Casimir Pulaski (March 6, 1745 – October 11, 1779) was a Polish noblemanb, soldier and military commander who has been called with his fellow ... read more

On December 19, 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 66/170 to declare 11 October as the International Day of the Girl C... read more

STATE OF ALABAMA. PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR: "WHEREAS, many of our state citizens are of Native American Indian heritage, and their Tra... read more

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Mona... read more

Columbus Day is a federal U.S. holiday that officially commemorates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ landing in the New World on Octob... read more

Farmer’s Day has history dating back to the 1800’s. There are some cities and towns across the United States that have their own versions of... read more