Day Guide for Monday October 14th 2024 What are the holidays on October 14th 2024?

This is our day guide for Monday October 14th 2024 which shows you at a glance what's happening on this day around the world. Using the calendar on this page, you can look at a day guide for any day. Why not look up your birthday to see which holidays you share it with?

Holidays on October 14th 2024

International: Columbus Day

This national holiday commemorates the exact date when Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas

Bahamas: National Heroes' Day

The second Monday in October is National Heroes Day, which replaced Discovery Day in 2013

Belize: Día de la Raza

Marks the arrival of Columbus in the Americas on October 12th 1492

Public sector only

Canada: Thanksgiving

Celebrated on the Second Monday in October and statutory, except in Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

Colombia: Day of the Races

Honors the indigenous people of the Americas on the date when Columbus first set foot in the Americas

Equatorial Guinea: Independence Day (in lieu)

Independence from Spain on 12 October 1968, when the country became the Republic of Equatorial Guinea

Georgia: Day of Svetitskovloba

This public holiday commemorates the first Christian church to be established in Georgia. According to tradition the shirt of Jesus is buried under the church

Regional

India (regional): Durga Puja Holiday

Durga Puja is one of the largest Hindu festivals that involves worship of Goddess Durga symbolising power and triumph of good over evil in Hindu mythology.

Japan: Health-Sports Day

Japan celebrates Sports Day to promote sports and an active lifestyle to ensure a healthy mind and body

Regional

Moldova (regional): Chisinau City Day

Public Holiday just for Chisinau. Each city and village has its own celebration day

Regional

Pakistan (regional): Public Holiday

Islamabad, Rawalpindi: For the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's Council of Heads of Government meeting.

Samoa: Lotu a Tamaiti Holiday

Day after White Sunday, when parents and communities celebrate childhood

Sint Maarten: Constitution Day

The constitution came into force on October 10th 2010, the date of the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles

Tanzania: Mwalimu Nyerere Day

Commemorates the death of Julius Nyerere, the father of the nation, in 1999

Thailand: The Passing of King Bhumibol (in lieu)

In remembrance of His Majesty the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Rama IX who died on October 13th 2016.

Turks and Caicos Islands: National Heritage Day

This holiday replaced Columbus Day in 2014, which was also held on the second Monday In October

Regional

USA (regional): US Indigenous People's Day

This state holiday has been adopted on the second Monday in October to replace Columbus Day

Yemen: Liberation Day

Marks the start of the armed struggle against British rule in South Yemen in 1963

Observances on October 14th 2024

USA: Be Bald and Be Free Day

Find out the dates, history and traditions of Be Bald and Be Free Day

USA: National Dessert Day

This is the ultimate holiday for people with a major sweet tooth!

International: World Standards Day

A day to honor those who work to bring standards and order to our lives.

USA: National Kick Butts Day

Kick Butts Day involves more than 1,000 events in schools and communities across the United States and even around the world.

USA: Native American Day

Native American Day is a good reminder to reflect on, and learn more about, the important contributions of Native American people.

USA: National Kick Butt Day

Hey, it's the second Monday in October - don't you something you need to do, instead of sitting around reading?

USA: National Online Bank Day

Find out the dates, history and traditions of National Online Bank Day

USA: Indigenous People's Day

Find out the dates, history and traditions of Indigenous People's Day.

United Kingdom: UK Coffee Week

Find out the dates, history and traditions of UK Coffee Week.

Poland: Teachers Day

Find out the dates, history and traditions of Teachers Day

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General Information for October 14th 2024
There are 18 public holidays today.
Day 288 of 2024
78 days left in 2024
Week 42 of the year
On this Day in History
1981 - Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
1964 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies - such as Alexei Kosygin - the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as anonperson in the USSR.
1962 – The Cuban missile crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.
1944 - Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head of government.