Holidays Calendar for October 29, 2020
King Norodom Sihamoni's Coronation Day is a Cambodian public holiday celebrated on October 29. The reigning King of Cambodia ascended the throne in 2004, following the abdication of his father Norodom Sihanouk.
Republic Day in Turkey is celebrated on October 29. It is a public holiday that commemorates the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. The celebration begins at 1:00 pm on October 28 and lasts thirty-five hours.
Bishop James Hannington Memorial Day is a Ugandan public holiday celebrated annually on October 29. The government of Uganda established it in 2022 to honor the first Anglican bishop of East Africa.
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Chad,
Comoros,
Egypt,
Eritrea,
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Iraq,
Jordan,
Libya,
Maldives,
Mali,
Mayotte,
Senegal,
Sierra Leone,
Sudan,
Syria,
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UAE,
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Mawlid (Birth of the Prophet)
Mawlid is an Islamic observance that occurs on the 12th day of the month of Rabi' al-awwal. It commemorates the birthday of Muhammad.
World Stroke Day is an annual awareness day observed on October 29. It was established to raise awareness of the high rates and serious nature of stroke and educate people about the treatment and prevention of this condition.
World Psoriasis Day is an international awareness day observed on October 29. Its main goal is to raise awareness of an autoimmune disease that affects millions of people all over the world, as well as to combat stigma associated with it.
International Carignan Day is a wine-related holiday celebrated annually on the last Thursday of October. It was created to raise awareness of a grape variety that originated in Spain but is more commonly found in French wines.
Security Guard Day, officially named Security Company Employee Day, is a professional holiday celebrated in Kazakhstan on October 29. It was officially established in 2017 to honor the staff of specialized security units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and employees of private security companies.
Military Financier Day is a professional holiday in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Celebrated annually on October 29, it honors all military and civilian personnel of the Department of Finance of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
Cyrus the Great Day, also known as Cyrus Day, is an Iranian observance held on October 26 (7th of Aban in the Zoroastrian calendar). It is dedicated to the Persian king Cyrus II, who became famous as the founder of the Achaemenid Empire that conquered most of Southwest Asia and much of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
October 29 is celebrated as Ľudovít Štúr's birthday in Slovakia. This official remembrance day is dedicated to the leader of the Slovak national revival who is credited with developing the Slovak language standard.
Serbian Constitutional Referendum Anniversary is an unofficial observance held on October 29 in the Republic of Serbia. It commemorates the 2006 constitutional referendum that resulted in the adoption of the current Constitution of Serbia.
National Oatmeal Day is celebrated every year on October 29. This food-related holiday is dedicated to one of the most popular breakfast cereals which is known for its health benefits.
International Day of Care and Support is a United Nations observance held annually on October 29. It was created to highlight the importance of care work, both paid and unpaid, and encourage governments around the globe to implement comprehensive care and support policies.
National Cat Day is observed annually on October 29. It was founded by Colleen Paige, an animal welfare advocate, and is supported by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Festivals on October 29, 2020
- Lucca Comics & Games in Lucca, Italy
- Dharamshala International Film Festival in Dharamshala, India
- Raindance Film Festival in London, United Kingdom
- Geneva Book and Press Fair in Geneva, Switzerland
- Lund International Fantastic Film Festival in Lund, Sweden
- British Urban Film Festival in London, United Kingdom
- Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) in Valladolid, Spain
- Marmaris International Race Week in Marmaris, Turkey
- Prague Fringe Festival in Prague, Czech Republic
- National Film Festival for Talented Youth in Seattle, USA
- Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale) in Vienna, Austria
- Austin Film Festival in Austin, USA
- São Paulo International Film Festival in São Paulo, Brazil
- Freimarkt in Bremen in Bremen, Germany
- LUSCA Caribbean International Fantastic Film Fest in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
This Day in History
- 2019 At least 159 people were killed and 196 others were injured in a crowd surge occurred during Halloween festivities in the Itaewon neighborhood of Seoul, South Korea.
- 2013 Turkey opened the Marmaray sea tunnel, connecting Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait, in Istanbul. The length of the tunnel is 47.6 mi (76.6 km).
- 2012 Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast of the United States. 148 people were killed directly and 138 more indirectly. The hurricane caused nearly $70 billion in damages and major power outages.
- 2004 The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcast an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist admitted direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- 1998 Hurricane Mitch made landfall in Honduras. It caused 11,374 fatalities in Central America, including approximately 7,000 in Honduras and 3,800 in Nicaragua due to cataclysmic flooding.
- 1997 Died: Anton LaVey, American author, musician, and LaVeyan Satanist. He was the founder of the Church of Satan, the philosophy of LaVeyan Satanism, and the concept of Satanism.
- 1991 The American Galileo spacecraft approached 951 Caspra, an asteroid that orbits very close to the inner edge of the asteroid belt, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
- 1990 Born: Eric Saade, Swedish singer and songwriter who represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany with the song "Popular", placing third.
- 1987 Died: Woody Herman, American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. His bands often played music that was cutting edge and experimental; their recordings received numerous Grammy nominations.
- 1981 Died: Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and poet. As an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music and articulate, diverse lyrics.
- 1975 Born: Michael Schur, American television producer, writer, director, and actor. His most notable credits include The Office, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and The Good Place.
- 1972 Born: Gabrielle Union, American actress who rose to prominence after landing her breakthrough role in the teen film Bring It On. In 2020, she was included on Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
- 1971 Died: Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist, remembered for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis. This work won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948.
- 1971 Born: Winona Ryder, American actress. Her notable film credits include Beetlejuice, Heathers, Edward Scissorhands, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Age of Innocence, Little Women, and others.
- 1969 The first ever computer-to-computer link was established on ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet.
- 1967 Born: Rufus Sewell, British actor of stage and screen. His film credits include Hamlet, A Knight's Tale, The Legend of Zorro, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and others.
- 1964 The Star of India and several other gems of note were stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City by Murph the Surf and gang.
- 1957 Born: Dan Castellaneta, American actor and writer. He is best known for voicing Homer Simpson on the animated series The Simpsons, as well as other characters on the show
- 1954 Born: Lee Child, British author who writes thriller novels, and is best known for his Jack Reacher novel series about the adventures of a former American military policeman.
- 1953 Died: William Kapell, American classical pianist who is widely regarded as the greatest American pianist of the 20th century. He was killed in a plane crash at the age of 31.
- 1950 Died: Gustaf V, King of Sweden from 1907 until his death. He became the first Swedish king not to have a coronation and so never wore a crown, a tradition that has continued ever since.
- 1947 Born: Richard Dreyfuss, American actor, known for starring in a number of successful films, including American Graffiti, Jaws, The Goodbye Girl, Mr. Holland's Opus, The Day Reagan Was Shot.
- 1941 In the Kaunas Ghetto (Lithuania), over 10,000 Jews were shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
- 1938 Born: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. She was the first elected female head of state in Africa.
- 1929 The New York Stock Exchange crashed, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s. This day is known as Black Tuesday and the first day of the Great Depression.
- 1920 Born: Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-American immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jean Dausset and George Davis Snell.
- 1911 Died: Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born American newspaper publisher and politician whose name is best known for the Pulitzer Prizes established in 1917 as a result of the specified endowment in his will to Columbia University.
- 1891 Born: Fanny Brice, American actress and singer, known as the creator and star of the radio comedy The Baby Snooks Show. Her biography became the basis of the musical Funny Girl, in which Brice was portrayed by Barbra Streisand.
- 1882 Born: Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright, considered to be one of the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II.
- 1877 Died: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, but later distanced himself from the movement.
- 1863 Representatives of eighteen countries met in Geneva and agreed to form the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- 1856 Born: Jacques Curie, French physicist and mineralogist. Along with his younger brother, Pierre Currie, he discovered some of the mechanisms behind piezoelectricity.
- 1783 Died: Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie.
- 1618 Died: Walter Raleigh, English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, he played a leading part in English colonization of North America.
- 1504 Born: Shin Saimdang, Korean artist, writer, calligraphist, and poet, who lived during the Joseon period. She was the mother of the Korean Confucian scholar Yi I (Yulgok).