Holidays Calendar for September 28, 2020
Czech Statehood Day is one of the public holidays in the Czech Republic. This holiday is annually celebrated on September 28, that is also the feast of St. Wenceslaus, the patron saint of the Czech Republic.
Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. It is also referred to as Day of Atonement as its central themes are atonement (a transgression to be pardoned or forgiven) and repentance (teshuva, the way of atoning for sin).
International Right to Know Day is annually observed on September 28. This observance raises public awareness of the right to access of governmental information.
International Safe Abortion Day is observed annually on September 28. It originated in Latin America and the Caribbean in the early 1990s and officially became an international awareness day in 2011.
World Marmite Day is an unusual holiday celebrating an unusual food item. Each year on September 28, people across the world treat themselves to a savory food spread made from yeast extract.
International Poke Day is celebrated annually on September 28. It was created in honor of a Hawaiian raw fish dish that has become popular in other parts of the world over the past decade or so.
Psoriatic Arthritis Awareness Day, also known as PsA Awareness Day and PsA Day, is observed annually on September 28. It was launched to raise awareness of a chronic inflammatory disease that affects almost one-third of all patients with psoriasis.
People employed in the nuclear industry of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan annually observe their professional day, Nuclear Industry Worker's Day, on September 28.
People of the Republic of China, also known as Taiwan, annually celebrate Teachers' Day on September 28. This holiday commemorates the birthday of Confucius, who is believed to be the model master educator in ancient China.
On September 28, National Good Neighbor Day is celebrated. This annual holiday was first proclaimed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978.
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Philippines
National Day of Awareness and Unity against Child Pornography in the Philippines
Child pornography is one of the biggest problems in the Philippines. Anti-Child Pornography Alliance, a group comprising non-governmental organizations, church members and congressmen, declared National Day of Awareness and Unity against Child Pornography in the Philippines, that is annually observed on September 28.
Thai National Flag Day is celebrated annually on September 28. It was established in 2016 to commemorate the official adoption of the national flag of Thailand by King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) in 1917.
Railway Day in Indonesia is observed annually on September 28. It commemorates the day in 1945 when Indonesian nationalists took over the railway system of Java controlled by the Japanese army and created the Railway Bureau of the Republic of Indonesia.
Dominion Day used to be a bank holiday in New Zealand. For the time being, it is celebrated in the region of South Canterbury as a Provincial Anniversary Day. The holiday is held on the fourth Monday in September.
Even if you are on a diet, take a break from it on September 28 because it is the National Strawberry Cream Pie Day. It is perfectly excusable to indulge yourself with a slice of delicious pie on this holiday.
Ask a Stupid Question Day is an informal holiday that is celebrated in some American schools on September 28 (or on the last school day of September when September 28 falls on the weekend).
A nonprofit organization the Global Alliance for Rabies Control annually coordinates international campaigning of World Rabies Day on September 28. This observance was established in 2007, when the first activities were organized.
International Day for the Universal Access to Information, also known as simply Access to Information Day, is an annual observance held on September 28. It was established by the UNESCO General Conference in November 2015 and was first observed on September 28, 2016.
Freedom from Hunger Day is observed every year on September 28. The observance was initiated by international organization Freedom from Hunger, the first activities relating to this day were held in 2006.
Festivals on September 28, 2020
- Animafest Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia
- BUFF International Film Festival in Malmö, Sweden
- Auto China (Beijing International Automotive Exhibition) in Beijing, China
- Oktoberfest in Canada in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada
- Odesa International Film Festival in Odesa, Ukraine
- Reykjavik International Film Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland
- Vancouver International Film Festival in Vancouver, Canada
- Sofia International Film Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria
- Dublin Book Festival in Dublin, Ireland
- Zurich Film Festival in Zurich, Switzerland
- Dublin Theatre Festival in Dublin, Ireland
- Ottawa International Animation Festival in Ottawa, Canada
- London Fringe Theater Festival in London (ON), Canada
- St. Louis Renaissance Festival in Wentzville, USA
- Züri-Wiesn (Swiss Oktoberfest) in Zürich, Switzerland
This Day in History
- 2023 Two shootings occurred in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The first, in which two people were killed, was at a residence on Heiman Dullaertplein, followed by a second, in which one person was killed, in a classroom at the Erasmus University Medical Center.
- 2020 Died: Coolio (stage name of Artis Leon Ivey Jr.), American rapper best known for his singles "Gangsta's Paradise", "Fantastic Voyage", "1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)", and "C U When U Get There".
- 2014 A series of sit-in street protests against proposed reforms to the electoral system began in Hong Kong. It is known as the Umbrella Revolution because many protesters carried yellow umbrellas.
- 2012 Died: Michael O'Hare, American actor, best remembered for role as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair in the science fiction television series Babylon 5.
- 2012 Died: Larry Cunningham, Irish country music singer, who was one of the leading figures of the showband scene in the 1960s and 1970s. His best known single is '"Tribute to Jim Reeves".
- 1994 The cruise ferry MS Estonia, owned by the Estonian shipping company Estline, sank in the Baltic Sea. 138 people of 989 on board were rescued alive.
- 1989 Died: Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino lawyer and politician, the 10th President of the Philippines. His regime was know for corruption, extravagance, and brutality. He was removed from power in 1986 by the People Power Revolution.
- 1987 Born: Hilary Duff, American actress and singer, best known for the roles in the films Agent Cody Banks, A Cinderella Story, Raise Your Voice, and more.
- 1981 Died: Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela from 1945 to 1948 and from 1959 to 1964. He is known as the "Father of Venezuelan Democracy".
- 1978 Died: Pope John Paul I, born Albino Luciani. His reign is known to be one of the shortest in papal history (33 days).
- 1972 Born: Dita Von Teese (stage name of Heather Renée Sweet), American burlesque dancer, cabaret performer, model, and businesswoman. She is widely regarded as the "Queen of Burlesque".
- 1971 The Parliament of the United Kingdom banned the medical use of cannabis.
- 1970 Died: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian military officer and politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952.
- 1969 Born: Piper Kerman, American author and convicted felon. Her memoir of her prison experiences was adapted into the critically-acclaimed Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black.
- 1968 Born: Naomi Watts, British actress. Her breakthrough role was as Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn in David Lynch's psychological thriller Mulholland Drive in 2001.
- 1967 Born: Mira Sorvino, American actress. She is best known for her performance in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite, which earned her an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
- 1962 A fire broke out at the Paddington tram depot in Brisbane, Australia. 65 trams were destroyed. The destruction of the depot is generally seen as the beginning of the end of the tram system in Brisbane.
- 1961 The United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria, ceased to exist after a military coup in Damascus. Syria proclaimed independence from the union.
- 1958 A new constitution of France was ratified, leading to the formation of the French Fifth Republic on October 4. Guinea rejected the constitution and voted for independence.
- 1956 Died: William Boeing, American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed Boeing a year later. It is now one of the world's largest aerospace manufacturers.
- 1952 Born: Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress and model who appeared in over 50 films. She is best remembered as the eponymous character in five of the seven Emmanuelle films.
- 1951 The Colombia Broadcasting System (CBS) made the first color televisions available for sale to the general public; the product was discontinued less than a month later.
- 1939 The German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty, a second supplementary protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, was signed, dividing Poland between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
- 1936 Born: Emmett Chapman, American jazz musician best known as the inventor of the Chapman Stick and maker of the Chapman Stick family of instruments.
- 1935 Died: William Kennedy Dickson, British-American inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison.
- 1934 Born: Brigitte Bardot, French actress, singer, and model as well as an animal rights activist. Famous for portraying characters with hedonistic lifestyles, she is one of the best known symbols of the sexual revolution.
- 1928 Sir Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
- 1924 Born: Marcello Mastroianni, Italian film actor and one of the country's most iconic male performers of the 20th century. He played leading roles for many of Italy's top directors.
- 1901 Born: William S. Paley, American broadcaster, known as the founder of CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System). He built CBS from a small radio network to one of the foremost radio and television network operations in the USA.
- 1895 Died: Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist, known for discovering vaccination for rabies and anthrax, pasteurization, and microbial fermentation.
- 1891 Died: Herman Melville, American author and poet of the American Renaissance period. He is best known for his novels Typee and Moby-Dick.
- 1889 The first General Conference on Weights and Measures defined the meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of 90% platinum and 10% iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
- 1856 Born: American educator, author and composer. She wrote children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
- 1852 Born: Henri Moissan, French chemist, best remembered for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. This work brought him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1906.
- 1841 Born: Georges Clemenceau, French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. He played a key tole in the politics of the Third Republic.