Holidays Calendar for October 11, 2020
On October 11, North Macedonians celebrate a public holiday known as People's Uprising against Fascism Day or Revolution Day. It commemorates the beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia against the Axis occupants.
White Sunday is a holiday celebrated in Samoa, Tokelau, and American Samoa on the second Sunday in October. The Monday after White Sunday is an official public holiday in Tokelau and Samoa.
The Day of Logistics Support Specialists of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is an official professional observance in the Ukrainian Armed Forces (ZSU) held annually on October 11. It was established by the Commander-in-Chief of the ZSU and celebrated for the first time in 2023.
Agricultural Workers' Day is an official professional holiday in Russia. It is celebrated on the second Sunday in October. The holiday was established by President Boris Yeltsin in 1999.
Artist's Day is a Ukrainian professional holiday celebrated on the second Sunday in October. It was officially established in 1998 by President Leonid Kuchma, who supported the initiative of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
Cultural Workers' Day is an official professional holiday in the Republic of Belarus celebrated on the second Sunday in October. It was established in 1998 by President Alexander Lukashenko and has been observed annually ever since.
On the second Sunday of October, when the harvest season is nearing its end, Armenians celebrate the annual harvest festival. Festivities are held in almost every city, town and village, and the best farmers from all over the country come to the Armenian capital of Yerevan to participate in a gastronomic exhibition.
General Pulaski Memorial Day is a United States observance held annually on October 11. This holiday honors General Kazimierz (Casimir) Pulaski, a Polish hero of the American Revolutionary War, who is referred to as the father of the American cavalry.
Pizza is one of America's favorite foods. It can be made with various toppings some of which even have their own national day. For example, the National Sausage Pizza Day is celebrated on October 11.
International Day of the Girl Child, also known as International Day of the Girl, is a United Nations observance held on October 11 every year. It was officially inaugurated by UN General Assembly in December 2011 to recognize girls' rights and raise awareness of the challenges girls have to face.
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National Coming Out Day
National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is an annual observance which aims to recognize members of LGBTQ+ community. It started as a national civil awareness day in the United States, but now NCOD is celebrated in many countries throughout the world.
National Bolivian Women’s Day (Día de la Mujer Boliviana) is celebrated in Bolivia on October 11. Although it is not a public holiday, women employed in the state sector typically have the second half of the day off on the occasion.
Grandparents, as well as mothers and fathers, deserve their own holiday, when all grandchildren could say “thank you” to their grandmothers and grandfathers. German kids have such an opportunity on the second Sunday in October, since it's Grandmothers' Day.
Festivals on October 11, 2020
- Pacific Meridian Film Festival in Vladivostok, Russia
- UniCon (Latvian Comic Con) in Riga, Latvia
- Feria de Jerez (Jerez Horse Fair) in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
- Kazan Marathon in Kazan, Russia
- International Alba White Truffle Fair in Alba, Italy
- SCHLINGEL International Film Festival in Chemnitz, Germany
- Georgia Renaissance Festival in Fairburn, USA
- Weimar Onion Market in Weimar, Germany
- Baku International Jazz Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan
- Warsaw International Film Festival in Warsaw, Poland
- Celtic Colours International Festival in Cape Breton Island, Canada
- Marunada (Chestnut Festival in Croatia) in Lovran, Croatia
- Sitges Film Festival in Sitges, Spain
- CinEast Film Festival in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Kerrville Folk Festival in Kerrville, USA
This Day in History
- 2022 Died: Angela Lansbury, Irish-British and American actress and singer. Her career spanned eighty years and included roles in film, television, and on stage.
- 2019 Died: Alexei Leonov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut and fighter pilot. In 1965, Leonov became the first person to conduct a spacewalk.
- 2009 Died: Angelo DiGeorge, Italian American physician and pediatric endocrinologist, known for his research on 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.
- 2007 Died: Werner von Trapp, Austrian-born American singer, a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives inspired The Sound of Music.
- 2002 A bomb exploded at the Myyrmanni shopping mall in Myyrmäki, Finland, killing 7 people, including two teenagers and a 7-year-old child.
- 2000 NASA launched STS-92, the 100th mission of the Space Shuttle. Space Shuttle Discovery was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
- 2000 Died: Donald Dewar, Scottish politician and statesman who served as the 1st First Minister of Scotland from May 17, 1999 until his death.
- 1998 Died: Richard Denning, American actor known for his roles in sci-fi films, such as Unknown Island and Creature from the Black Lagoon.
- 1992 Born: Cardi B (stage name of Belcalis Marlenis Cephus), American rapper and songwriter who has established herself as one of the most successful female artists in contemporary music.
- 1986 U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavík, Iceland.
- 1985 Born: Michelle Trachtenberg, American film and television actress best known for her role as Dawn Summers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- 1984 NASA astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to perform a spacewalk during Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-G.
- 1983 Born: Bradley James, English actor known for his roles as Arthur Pendragon in Merlin, Damien Thorn in Damien, Varga in Underworld: Blood Wars, and others.
- 1982 The Mary Rose, a carrack-type warship of the English Tudor navy, was salvaged by the Mary Rose Trust from the sea bed of the Solent.
- 1977 Born: Matt Bomer, American actor best known for his roles as the con artist Neal Caffrey on White Collar and Felix Turner in The Normal Heart.
- 1976 Born: Emily Deschanel, American actress best known for playing the role of Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan in the Fox crime procedural series Bones.
- 1969 Born: Stephen Moyer, English actor. He is best known for his role as Bill Compton in True Blood. From 2017 to 2019, he starred as Reed Strucker in The Gifted.
- 1968 Born: Jane Krakowski, American actress best known for her roles in the comedy series 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, as well as for her stage roles on and off Broadway.
- 1966 NASA launched Apollo 7, the first mission in the United States' Apollo program to carry a crew into space. It was launched from Cape Canaveral.
- 1966 Born: Luke Perry, American actor primarily known for portraying the character of Dylan McKay on the popular series Beverly Hills, 90210.
- 1965 Died: Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the FSA.
- 1963 Died: Jean Cocteau, French novelist, poet, playwright, artist, and filmmaker. One of hist most famous works is the novel Les Enfants Terribles.
- 1946 Born: Sawao Kato, renowned Japanese gymnast. Kato is regarded as one of the most successful athletes of all time at the Olympic Games.
- 1918 A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck the island of Puerto Rico, killing approximately 116 people. It is known as the San Fermín earthquake.
- 1899 The Second Boer War began. It was fought between the UK and the South African Republic and Orange Free State. The war ended in a British victory.
- 1896 Born: Roman Jakobson, Russian-American linguist and literary theorist. Jakobson was a pioneer of the structural analysis of language.
- 1889 Died: James Prescott Joule, English physicist and brewer who studied the nature of heat and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.
- 1885 Born: François Mauriac, French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, critic and journalist who was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1884 Born: Friedrich Bergius, German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1931, sharing it with his colleague Carl Bosch.
- 1884 Born: Eleanor Roosevelt, American politician, diplomat and activist, First Lady of the United States as the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1852 The University of Sydney was officially inaugurated. It is Australia's first university and is also regarded as one of its most prestigious.
- 1844 Born: Henry J. Heinz, American businessman primarily known as the founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (1869), a food processing company.
- 1821 Born: George Williams, English philanthropist primarily remembered as the founder of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA).
- 1708 Died: Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German physicist, mathematician, physician, and philosopher credited with inventing European porcelain.
- 1303 Died: Pope Boniface VIII (born Benedetto Caetan), head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1294 until his death. He is remembered for his feud with Dante Alighieri.
- 1138 The 1138 Aleppo earthquake occurred in northern Syria. With about 230,000 casualties, it is one of the deadliest earthquakes in history.