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  2. List of month-long observances - Wikipedia

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    June. African-American Music Appreciation Month [28][29] ALS Awareness Month (Canada) Caribbean-American Heritage Month [30] LGBT Pride Month. National PTSD Awareness Day [31] National Safety Month [32] National Smile Month (United Kingdom, May and June) Devotion to the Sacred Heart.

  3. Category:October observances - Wikipedia

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    National Chemistry Week. National Coming Out Day. National Cyber Security Awareness Month. National day. National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust. National Day of Spain. National Day of the People's Republic of China. National Day of the Republic of China. National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

  4. Columbus Day - Wikipedia

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    October 13 (United States) 2026 date. October 12 (United States) Frequency. Annual. Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the Americas. He went ashore at Guanahaní, an ...

  5. List of environmental dates - Wikipedia

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    10-01: October 1 World Farm Animals Day [151] 10-02: October 2 World Habitat Day: 10: First Monday of October World Animal Day: 10-04: October 4 National Badger Day [152] [153] [154] 10-06: October 6 World Octopus Day [155] [156] [157] 10-08: October 8 Energy Efficiency Day [158] 10: First Wednesday in October International Day for Natural ...

  6. Indigenous Peoples' Day (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous Peoples' Day[a] is a holiday in the United States that celebrates and honors Indigenous American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures. [1] It is celebrated across the United States on the second Monday in October, and is an official city and state holiday in various localities.

  7. Leif Erikson Day - Wikipedia

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    Leif Erikson. Leif Erikson Day is an annual observance that occurs on October 9. [1] It honors Leif Erikson (Old Norse: Leifr Eiríksson), [note 1] the Norse explorer who, in approximately 1000, led the first Europeans believed to have set foot on the continent of North America (other than Greenland).

  8. October - Wikipedia

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    Maple leaf in October (Northern hemisphere). October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.Its length is 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, October retained its name (from Latin and Greek ôctō meaning "eight") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans.

  9. National Arts & Humanities Month - Wikipedia

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    National Arts & Humanities Month was established in 1993 and is celebrated every October [1] in the United States. It was initiated to encourage Americans to explore new facets of the arts and humanities in their lives, and to begin a lifelong habit of participation in the arts and humanities. It has become the nation's largest collective ...