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October 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Día de la Canción Criolla ; Earliest day on which All Saints Day can fall, while November 6 is the latest; celebrated on Saturday between October 31 and November 6 (Finland, Sweden) Halloween and related celebrations: Allantide
It is the closest city to Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautama Buddha, which is located 25 km (16 mi) to the west. The city borders the Indian city of Sonauli in Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh. Although the current name was first used in 1977, [3] many still refer to it as Bhairahawa. [4]
Reformation Day is a Protestant Christian religious holiday celebrated on 31 October in remembrance of the onset of the Reformation. According to Philip Melanchthon , 31 October 1517 was the day Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg , Electorate of Saxony , in the Holy Roman Empire .
Samhain is one of the quarter days in the medieval Gaelic calendar and has been celebrated on 31 October – 1 November [108] in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. [109] [110] A kindred festival has been held by the Brittonic Celts, called Calan Gaeaf in Wales, Kalan Gwav in Cornwall and Kalan Goañv in Brittany; a name meaning "first day ...
2021 World Cities Day China Observance in Shanghai. World Cities Day was established on 27 December 2013 by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution A/RES/68/239, [3] in which the General Assembly "decides to designate 31 October, beginning in 2014, as World Cities Day, invites States, the United Nations system, in particular UN-Habitat, relevant international organizations, civil ...
Because of the October 31 scheduled halt to testing of hydrogen and atomic bombs, the U.S., the United Kingdom and the USSR had all raced to perform as many detonations as possible during October, with 29 by the U.S. alone during the month of October. The final American test, code-named Titania, took place at 20:34:00.2 UTC (12:34 local time ...
The "Era Fascista" marked October 29 as day 1 of Anno I in the official calendar indtroduced in Anno V (1926). The Fascist regime would last until Anno XX (1943). Elections were held in Switzerland for the 198-member National Council.
October 1956 was the tenth month of that leap year. The month which began on a Monday and ended after 31 days on a Wednesday The following events occurred in October 1956: October 1: Former Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz is released from Spandau Prison October 23: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 breaks out in the capital Budapest