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Worldwide Holidays or Events for October 2011

1st October
Armed Forces Day: South Korea.

Goodwill Day: Namibia.

Independence Day: Cyprus, Nigeria, Tuvalu.

National Day: Botswana.

National Day: China.
The official reception and celebration are held in the Great Hall of the People while various kinds of performances and operas are shown at all theatres.

Unification Day: Cameroon.

United Nations Day: Barbados.

2nd October
Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday: India.

Independence Day: Guinea.

3rd October
Foundation Day: South Korea.

Morazan Day: Honduras.

Unity Day: Germany.

4th October
Independence Day: Lesotho.

5th October
Republic Day: Portugal.

Sports Day: Lesotho.

6th October
Armed Forces Day: Egypt.

8th October
Battle of Angamos: Peru.

9th October
Independence Day: Uganda.

Independence of Guayaquil Day: Ecuador.

National Dignity Day: Peru.

10th October
Kruge Day: South Africa.

Moi Day: Kenya.

National Day: Taiwan.

Columbus Day: United States

Thanksgiving Day: Canada

Beginning of Independence War: Cuba.

Revolution Day: Panama.

12th October
Columbus Day:
Belize, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Dia de La Raza: Mexico.

Discovery Day: Bahamas.

Discovery of America: Argentina.

Independence Day: Guinea.

13th October
Cession Day: Fiji.

14th October
Founders' Day: Zaire.

15th October
Evacuation Day: Tunisia.

Independence Day: Bosnia.

17th October
Dessalines Day: Haiti.

18th October
Lord of the Miracles: Lima, Peru.

20th October
Heroes' Day: Jamaica.

Kenyatta Day: Kenya.

Revolution Day: Guatemala.

21st October
Army Day: Honduras.

Overseas Chinese Day: Taiwan.

Revolution Day: Somalia.

22nd October
John Paul II Day: Vatican.

23rd October
Chulalongkorn Day: Thailand.

National Liberation Day: Egypt.

Revolution Day: Hungary.

24th October
Independence Day: Zambia.

Suez Victory Day: Egypt.

United Nations Day.

26th October
Government Day: Rwanda.

National Day: Austria.

Revolution Day: Benin.

27th October
Independence Day: Saint Vincent, Turkmenistan.

28th October
National Day: Cyprus.

National Holiday: Greece.

29th October
Cumhuriyet Bayrami: Turkey.
Commemorates the proclamation of the Republic in 1923.

National Youth Day: Liberia.

31st October
Chiang Kai-shek's Birthday: Taiwan.

Halloween.

Reformation Day: Slovenia.

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