Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for October 14, 2021

Many days there are far too many anniversaries, holidays, and observances to post about individually on social media, so in an effort to have more of them available, LLPHP is going to experiment with posting them daily. If there are other items you feel should be included, please email contact@llphp.org and share!


Please note all holidays and observances listed as “National” days are American holidays and observances unless it is stated otherwise.

On This Day

• Dussehra
• Global Handwashing Day
• Mammography Day
• National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day
• 1322: Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeated King Edward II of England, forcing Edward to accept Scotland’s independence
• 1865: The Cheyennes and Arapahos tribes signed a “peace treaty” and were then chased out of Colorado
• 1943: 600 Jewish prisoners mounted an uprising at the Nazi concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland allowing 300 people to successfully escape
• 1946: The Netherlands and Indonesia signed a cease fire
• 1958: The Malagasy Republic became an autonomous republic in the French Community
• 1964: Martin Luther King Jr. was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1968: A 6.8 earthquake wrecked the Australian town of Meckering, rupturing all nearby major roads and railways
• 1969: Race riots occurred in Springfield, Massachusetts
• 1971: 2 people were killed in Memphis, Tennessee during racial disturbances
• 1979: The first Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights March on Washington, DC was attended by over 100,000 people
• 1982: US President Reagan proclaimed the war on drugs
• 1986: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel for his efforts to ensure the Holocaust was remembered
• 2014: The World Health Organization announced the Ebola virus total death toll had reached 4,447,and the fatality rate had reached 70%
• 2017: The Spanish government said it would impose direct rule on Catalonia after the region voted for independence
• 2018: Flash flooding in France’s Aude region killed at least 10 people
• 2019: Spain’s Supreme Court jailed nine Catalan separatist leaders for sedition for holding the 2017 independence referendum, prompting violent clashes in Barcelona
• 2019: Hundreds of forest fires broke out in western Lebanon, killing three people and prompting calls for international help
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including October 14, 2021

• Navratri (October 7-15)
• Death Penalty Focus Week (October 10-16)
  
  

October Monthly Holidays and Observances

• National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)
• Agent Orange Awareness Month
• Antidepressant Death Awareness Month
• ADHD Month
• Blindness Awareness Month
• Celiac Disease Awareness Month
• Consumer Information Month
• Co-Op Awareness Month
• Diversity Awareness Month
• Domestic Violence Awareness Month
• Dwarfism Awareness Month
• Dysautonomia Awareness Month
• Dyslexia Awareness Month
• Eczema Awareness Month
• Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
• Emotional Wellness Month
• Employee Ownership Month
• Energy Awareness Month
• Financial Planning Month
• Fire Prevention Month
• Gay and Lesbian History Month
• Global Diversity Awareness Month
• Health Literacy Month
• Healthy Lung Month
• Home Eye Safety Month
• Hunger Awareness Month
• I’m Just Me Because Month
• LGBT History Month
• Long-Term Care Planning Month
• Lupus Awareness Month
• Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month
• Mental Illness Awareness Month
• Month of Free Thought
• National AIDS Awareness Month
• National Stop Bullying Month/National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
• National Critical Illness Awareness Month
• National Cyber Security Awareness Month
• National Dental Hygiene Month
• National Depression Education and Awareness Month
• National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
• National Down Syndrome Awareness Month
• National Learning and Development Month
• National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
• National Sensory Awareness Month
• National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
• National Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month
• National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month
• Positive Attitude Month
• Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
• Self-Promotion Month
• Sexuality Education Month
• Stress Awareness Month
• World Blindness Awareness Month
• Rabi ‘-al-Awwal (October 7-November 5)