Holidays Calendar for September 23, 2018
The people of Saudi Arabia celebrate the country’s National Day on September 23. This public holiday commemorates the proclamation of the Kindgom of Saudi Arabia in 1932.
Autumnal Equinox is a public holiday in Japan. It's celebrated on September 22 or 23. Since equinox may fall on different dates, the exact date of celebration is not announced till February of previous year.
Restless Legs Syndrome Awareness Day, also known as Restless Legs Awareness Day or RLS Day, is observed annually on September 23. It was crated to raise awareness of a long-term disorder that affects a person’s sleep quality.
Teachers of Brunei annually accept congratulations on Teachers' Day on September 23. This holiday was established in Brunei to commemorate the birth of the ruler Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III.
Mechanical Engineer's Day is a professional holiday in Ukraine celebrated on the fourth Sunday in September. It was officially established by President Leonid Kravchuk in 1993, but the history of the holiday begins during the Soviet era.
National Maritime Day is celebrated in Indonesia annually on September 23. It was established in 1964 by President Sukarno to commemorate the country’s first (and only) Maritime Conference that was held in 1963.
Kyrgyz Language Day is annually celebrated in Kyrgyzstan on September 23. This holiday was established to celebrate the adoption of a law on language of the Kyrgyz SSR in 1989.
September 23 is National Day of Women's Political Rights in Argentina. Celebration of this day is connected with Eva Perón's activity, First Lady of Argentina from 1946 till her death in 1952.
National Day of School Failure Prevention is a French national observance, that annually falls on September 23. This observance was created under initiative of the French organization AFEV in 2008.
Holocaust Memorial Day is a very important observance in Lithuania. Establishment of this memorial day is connected with liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto in 1943.
People of Puerto Rico annually observe Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares) to commemorate the events of the first large uprising against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico. The uprising began on September 23, 1868, thus laying foundation to this observance.
The Federated States of Micronesia consists of four states (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap), and each of them, except for Yap, officially celebrates the anniversary of liberation from Japanese occupation after World War II. Chuuk Liberation Day, for example, is celebrated on September 23.
Martyrs Day (Veer Shahidi Divas) is observed in the Indian state of Haryana on September 23 every year. It was established to honor the memory of all Haryana freedom fighters who gave their lives fighting for the independence of their country.
The National Great American Pot Pie Day is celebrated every year on September 23. This informal food related holiday was created in 2002 by Marie Callender's, the pot pie and frozen food company.
September 23 is a perfect day for making preserves or experimenting with salad dressings because it is National Apple Cider Vinegar Day. This unofficial holiday celebrates an extremely versatile product that can be found in many households.
Za’atar Day, also known as International Za’atar Day and World Za’atar Day, is observed annually on September 23. It celebrates a culinary herb that is widely used in Middle Eastern cuisine, as well as the spice mix of the same name, which is based on the herb.
Mabon is a Pagan festival, that is connected with autumn equinox. This is a ritual of thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth.
International Day of Sign Languages (IDSL) is a United Nations observance held annually on September 23, during International Week of the Deaf. It was established by a UN General Assembly resolution in 2017 and was celebrated for the first time in 2018.
Celebrate Bisexuality Day, also known as Bisexual Pride and Bi Visibility Day, is observed on September 23 every year by members of the bisexual community and their friends, families, supporters and allies.
National AFM Day, also known as National Acute Flaccid Myelitis Day, is observed on September 23. It was created to raise awareness of a rare spinal cord condition that was recognized in 2014.
Festivals on September 23, 2018
- Moscow Marathon in Moscow, Russia
- Manaki Brothers International Cinematographers’ Film Festival in Bitola, North Macedonia
- Comic Con Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine
- Haifa International Film Festival in Haifa, Israel
- Oz Comic-Con in Brisbane, Australia
- MCM Scotland Comic Con in Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Pacific Islander Festival in San Diego in San Diego, USA
- Oktoberfest in Munich in Munich, Germany
- Warsaw Autumn Music Festival in Warsaw, Poland
- Plano Balloon Festival in Plano, USA
- Pacific Meridian Film Festival in Vladivostok, Russia
- Bloody Scotland in Stirling, United Kingdom
- San Sebastian International Film Festival in San Sebastian, Spain
- Essential Baby & Toddler Show in Sydney, Australia
- Lviv International Literature Festival in Lviv, Ukraine
This Day in History
- 2012 Died: Corrie Sanders, South African professional boxer who won the WBO heavyweight title in 2003. He died in a hospital at the age of 46 after being shot during an armed robbery.
- 2008 22-year-old student Matti Juhani Saari shot and fatally injured 10 people before killing himself at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Western Finland.
- 2004 More than 3,000 people were killed in Haiti by floods caused by Hurricane Jeanne. The hurricane also caused deaths in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the US.
- 1994 Born: Aurora Perrineau, American actress and model. She is best known for her roles as Shana Elmsford in Jem and the Holograms, Tanya in When They See Us, and as C in Westworld.
- 1987 Born: Skylar Astin, American actor of stage and screen who became known for portraying Jesse Swanson in the musical films Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2.
- 1985 Born: Cush Jumbo, British actress and writer best known for her roles as Lucca Quinn in The Good Wife and The Good Fight and as June Lenker in Criminal Record.
- 1983 A bomb exploded in the baggage compartment of Gulf Air Flight 771 on approach to Abu Dhabi International Airport. The plane crashed in the desert between Abu Dhabi and Dubai; all 107 passengers and 5 crew members died.
- 1978 Born: Anthony Mackie, American actor. He achieved global recognition for portraying Sam Wilson / Falcon / Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- 1973 Born: Yorgos Lanthimos, Greek filmmaker. His best known works include Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Favourite, Poor Things, and Kinds of Kindness.
- 1973 Died: Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, and passionate love poems
- 1970 Died: Bourvil (born André Robert Raimbourg), French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy films, most notably in his collaborations with Louis de Funès.
- 1969 Born: Patrick Fiori, French singer who represented France in the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest and originated the role of Phoebus in the musical Notre-Dame de Paris.
- 1959 Born: Jason Alexander, American actor and comedian who gained stardom for his role as George Costanza in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld.
- 1957 Born: Rosalind Chao, American actress known for her roles as Soon-Lee Klinger on AfterMASH and Keiko O'Brien on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
- 1949 Born: Bruce Springsteen, American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Nicknamed "the Boss", he has released 21 studio albums during a career spanning six decades.
- 1943 Born: Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer, songwriter and former professional footballer. He is recognized as the most commercially successful Spanish singer in the world and one of the top record sellers in music history.
- 1943 The Italian Social Republic was founded during World War II. It was a German puppet state and fascist rump state with limited diplomatic recognition.
- 1939 Died: Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche.
- 1930 Born: Ray Charles, American singer, songwriter, musician and composer. Referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius", he is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential musicians in history.
- 1929 Died: Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-Hungarian chemist, remembered for his research in colloids. This work brought him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925.
- 1920 Born: Mickey Rooney, American actor. In a career spanning nearly nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era.
- 1916 Born: Aldo Moro, Italian statesman and prominent member of Christian Democracy (DC) and its center-left wing. He served as prime minister of Italy in five terms.
- 1915 Born: Clifford Shull, American physicist who was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Canadian Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.
- 1909 The Phantom of the Opera, a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois, a French daily newspaper.
- 1905 Norway and Sweden singed the Karlstad Treaty that peacefully dissolved the Union between the two countries.
- 1901 Born: Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, poet, and journalist, a leading representative of the Czechoslovakian artistic avant-garde. He was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1896 Died: Ivar Aasen, Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet, best known for having created Nynorsk, one of the two official written versions of Norwegian.
- 1889 Died: Wilkie Collins, English novelist and playwright best known for The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The latter established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel.
- 1889 Japanese entrepreneur Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Yamauchi Nintendo to produce and market hanafuda, a type of Japanese playing cards.
- 1880 Born: John Boyd Orr, Scottish teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition.
- 1877 Died: Urbain Le Verrier, French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune.
- 1870 Died: Prosper Mérimée, French writer, historian, and archaeologist. He is best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's eponymous opera.
- 1869 Born: Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, Irish-born American cook who is believed to have infected between 51 and 122 people with typhoid fever as an asymptomatic carrier.
- 1861 Born: Robert Bosch, German industrialist, engineer and inventor, best known as the founder of Robert Bosch GmbH.
- 1846 Neptune, the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System, was discovered by astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle.
- 1830 Died: Elizabeth Monroe, the first lady of the United States from 1817 to 1825, as the wife of James Monroe. Due to her fragile health, many of her duties were assumed by her eldest daughter, Eliza Monroe Hay.
- 1459 The first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, the Battle of Blore Heath, was fought in Staffordshire. It was won by the Yorkists.
- 1338 The Battle of Arnemuiden was fought between England and France. It is known to be the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle in which gunpowder artillery was used.