Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for October 5, 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

• Do Something Nice Day
• National Storytelling Day
• 1450: Jews were expelled from Lower Bavaria by the order of Ludwig IX
• 1465: French King Louis XI signed a peace treaty with Charles the Stout
• 1789: During the French Revolution the women of Paris marched to Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris
• 1793: Christianity was disestablished in France as part of the French Revolution
• 1869: A strong hurricane known as the Saxby Gale devastated the Bay of Fundy region in Maritime Canada. Incredibly British naval officer Stephen Martin Saxby is said to have predicted the storm 10 months earlier in December 1868 via astronomy
• 1877: Chief Joseph surrendered ending the Nez Perce War
• 1908: Bulgaria declared independence from Turkey and Ferdinand I became Tsar
• 1910: The Portuguese overthrew their monarchy and proclaimed a republic
• 1942: 5,000 Jews of Dubno, Russia were massacred
• 1942: During the Budy Massacre at an Auschwitz sub-camp, 90 French-Jewish women were beaten to death by guards
• 1954: Hurricane Hazel formed in the Caribbean. It would kill 400-1000 people in the Bahamas and Haiti
• 1968: A civil rights march in Derry was stopped by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) which resulted in clashes and further led to two days of serious rioting. This is often considered the start of ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland
• 1988: Israel banned Meir Kahane’s Kach Party on grounds of racism
• 2000: Mass demonstrations in Belgrade, called the Bulldozer Revolution, led to the resignation of Slobodan Milošević
• 2012: Anglo Platinum Limited fired 12,000 striking workers in South Africa
• 2015: Flooding in South Carolina from a “1,000-year storm” resulted in 12 people dying and 9 dams failing
• 2015: Governor of California Jerry Brown signed a bill giving terminally ill patients the “right to die”
• 2018: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad for “efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war”
• 2020: India’s COVID-19 death toll passed100,000, with 6.6 million known cases, the third highest death toll in the world behind the US and Brazil
• 2020: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated 10% of world’s population may have been infected with COVID-19, more than 20 times the number of confirmed cases
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including October 5, 2021

• Fire Prevention Week (October 3-9)
• Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 3-9)
• Financial Planning Week – October 4-8
  
  

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