October 23rd - Holidays and Observances

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• Christian feast day:
  • Feast of the Most Holy Redeemer
  • James the Just (i.e. James, brother of Jesus) (Lutheran, Episcopal Church (USA), Eastern Orthodox)
  • Allucio of Campugliano
  • Amon of Toul (Diocese of Toul)
  • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
  • Ignatios of Constantinople
  • John of Capistrano^[23]
  • Joséphine Leroux
  • Peter Pascual
  • Romain (Romanus) of Rouen
  • Servandus and Cermanus
  • Severin of Cologne
  • October 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Christmas or the Feast of Señor Noemi (the Child Jesus) in the Apostolic Catholic Church
• Aviator's Day (Brazil)
• Chulalongkorn Day (Thailand)
• Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle (Republic of North Macedonia)
• Liberation Day (Libya)
• Mole Day (International observance)
• National Day (Hungary)
• Paris Peace Agreement Day (Cambodia)

 

Observances (click on the day for details)

Make A Difference Day

iPod Day

Snow Leopard Day

SUDEP Action Day

Boston Cream Pie Day

TV Talk Show Host Day

Event Organizers Day

 

Fun Observances

Mole Day

Mole Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated by chemists and chemistry students on October 23 in honor of the mole, a measuring unit in Chemistry.

The mole measures chemical entities such as atoms or molecules and is formally defined as the amount of any substance that contains as many entities as there are atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12.

Associated with Avogadro’s number, a dimensionless measuring unit in Chemistry, the mole approximates to 6.02×10²³. The number is named after Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro.

6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m

Mole Day is celebrated annually between 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m (18:02) on October 23 because when written in the month-date format, the date and time 6.02, 10/23 include the digits in Avogadro’s number.

The National Mole Day Foundation founded in 1991 celebrates the day every year with a theme. Some of the recent themes include Molar Eclipse in 2012, Mole of the Caribbean in 2010, and Molar Express in 2009.

How to Celebrate?

• Get your geek on for this day. Wear a mole t-shirt and when someone asks you about it, explain the concept of mole to them.
• Have a mole-themed party and serve guaca“mole” and wear mole (the animal) costumes.

Did You Know…

…that a group of moles is called a labor?

 

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While driving on the highway, my daughter noticed a child in the window of a car in the next lane, holding up a handwritten sign that read "Help."

A few minutes later, the car passed her and she again glanced at it. The little boy held up the same sign and this time followed it with another, which read "My mother is singing!"

 

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FYI: By the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas song, your home is crammed with 23 flying Birds and 50 hyperactive Humans.

 

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My sister was busy getting ready to host our entire family for Easter. On her to-do list was a hair appointment for her daughter. "So, Katie," said the stylist as the little girl got up in the chair, "who's coming to your house this weekend with big ears and floppy feet?"

Katie replied, "I think it's my uncle Brian."

 

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