October 14

Scroll down for the world's holidays, annual events and a few anniversaries on October 14.

See also:  October,  Today in History,  movable October holidays,  possible October holidays

     spotlight on:  

•  Be Bald and Be Free Day
•  Celebrating the cephalic area
•  Dessert Day
•  First Fiddle of the Month (Fairy)
•  National Chocolate Covered Insect Day
•  National Frump Day
•  National Train Your Brain Day
•  Peace Corps Day
•  Vinternatsblot
•  Winter's Day
•  World Standards Day - October 14, 2004
•  “Black Thursday” Day, 2003

Christian holidays

•  Calendar of Saints - October 14

anniversaries

•  October 14, 1582 does not exist on the Gregorian calendar - it became October 24, 1582, when the ten-day lag of the previously used Julian calendar was corrected

directories

October holidays & events by location

•  Africa
•  Asia & Middle East
•  Europe
•  North & Central America
•  Oceania
•  South America

Africa

•  Zaire Founder's Day

Asia

•  Quarrel Festival - in Japan
•  Mega Kenka Matsui (Roughhouse Festival) - in Japan
•  Taoist Kusu Island Pilgrimage begins - in Singapore

Middle East

•  Yemen National Day

Australia and Oceania

Europe

•  Blessing the Fish Harvest (Yorkshire)
•  Big Kids Day - in the Channel Islands
•  world’s largest book fair - in Frankfurt, Germany; October 14 - 18, 2009
  •  Report from the Field- The World's Largest Book Fair
  •  Culture & Lifestyle
  •  Microsoft Announces $100,000 Frankfurt eBook Awards
  •  Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels - in German
  •  54th Frankfurt Book Fair
  •  book fair to stay in Frankfurt until 2010 - article

North America

•  Columbus Day observed in the US

Caribbean

•  Columbus Day - in Belize

Central America

South America

Gregorian calendar

•  Day 287, with 78 days remaining in the year
•  2001 A. D.: Sunday
•  2002 A. D.:  Monday
•  2003 A. D.:  Tuesday
•  2004 A. D.:  Thursday
•  2005 A. D.:  Friday

•  2006 A. D.:  Saturday
•  2007 A. D.:  Sunday
•  2008 A. D.:  Tuesday
•  2009 A. D.:  Wednesday
•  2010 A. D.:  Thursday
•  2011 A. D.:  Friday

other calendars

•  Julian period & Julian Day
•  Illuminati
•  Hebrew
•  Mayan
•  Chinese
•  Erisian (Discordian) 
•  Islamic
•  French Revolutionary

season

•  Northern hemisphere:  Autumn
•  Southern hemisphere:  Spring

zodiac

•  Libra

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last edited Thursday, December 25, 2008