October 1st 2024 - Holidays and Observances

 

(click on the day for details)

• Armed Forces Day (South Korea)
• Beginning of the United States' Fiscal Year
• Children's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala, Sri Lanka)
• Christian feast day:
  • Abai (Syriac Orthodox Church)
  • Bavo of Ghent
  • Blessed Edward James
  • Nicetius (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Remigius
  • Thérèse of Lisieux
  • Protection/Patronage of the Theotokos (Eastern Catholic Churches)
  • October 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of Prosecutors (Azerbaijan)
• Ground Forces Day (Russia)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Cyprus from United Kingdom in 1960.
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Nigeria from United Kingdom in 1960.
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Palau from UN trust territory status in 1994.
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Tuvalu from United Kingdom in 1978.
• International Day of Coffee
• International Day of Older Persons
• Lincolnshire Day (United Kingdom)
• National Day of the People's Republic of China (People's Republic of China)
• Pancasila Sanctity Day (Indonesia)
• Tampere Day (Finland)
• Teacher's Day (Uzbekistan)
• Unification Day (Cameroon)
• Defender of Ukraine Day (Ukraine)

 

Observances (click on the day, BD, week or month for details)

Fun Observances (2)

Balloons Around the World Day

Balloons Around The World is a made-up holiday that aims to spread cheer around the world. It is celebrated annually on October 1.

 

The unofficial holiday was created by Jeff Brown in 2000. The holiday encourages people to use balloons and the art of balloon twisting and decorating to bring smiles to the faces of those around them.

Animal Bladders

Balloons are bags, usually colorful and made of rubber or latex that can be filled with air or gases like Helium. Early balloons were made of animal bladders. While balloons are frequently used for decorative purposes, they can also be used for transportation, to gather atmospheric information, and by doctors to open up clogged arteries.

How to Celebrate?

• Have a party and use balloons for decoration.
• Learn how to make balloon animals and objects.
• If you already know how to make balloon objects, make some and give out to random people on the street and see them smile.
• What about taking that special one on a hot air balloon ride?

Did You Know…

…that rubber balloons were invented by scientist Michael Faraday in 1824?

 

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International Coffee Day

October 1 is annually celebrated as International Coffee Day. The unofficial holiday celebrates one of the most popular beverages in the world - coffee.

The holiday also helps raise awareness about sustainable coffee cultivation and fair trade practices within the coffee industry. Before 2015 the day used to be celebrated on different dates in different countries.

Coffee is a drink made from the seeds or berries of the coffee plant. As a beverage, it has been enjoyed by people around the world for many centuries. Historians believe that coffee was first discovered in Ethiopia but was cultivated on a large scale and traded for the first time by the Arabs.

Religious Ceremonies

Initially used for religious ceremonies and rituals, it became the beverage of choice in most households in the Middle East, Persia and Africa by the 16th century and in Europe and the Americas by the 17th century.

An Offense

Despite its popularity today, coffee had its share of critics in history. Sultan Murad IV of the Ottoman Empire hated coffee so much that he made coffee drinking an offense punishable by death. In England, King Charles II fearing plots hatched over cups of coffee ordered all coffee houses shut.

Many countries celebrate their own version of a Coffee Day on different dates during the year. For example, Germany started Tag Des Kaffees in 2006 and celebrates it every year on the first Saturday of September.

In the United States, National Coffee Day is celebrated on September 29.

The holiday has unknown origins and is also sometimes known as Coffee Day.

How to Celebrate?

Whether your “cup of coffee” is a refreshing iced coffee or a piping hot Americano, Espresso, Café au Lait (coffee with milk), or plain black with no sugar, International Coffee Day is a day to take some time off from your busy day to enjoy your favorite version of the beverage. Here are some ways to celebrate this day:

• Many coffee shops around the world offer a free cup of coffee on International Coffee Day, so get in line and grab yourself a cup of free coffee.
• Have coffee or coffee flavored food and beverages the whole day long. What about starting your day with coffee, have a coffee flavored yogurt for lunch and end the day with coffee crusted steak and a coffee flavored cake for dessert?
• Coffee bring friends together. Set up coffee dates with your friends and spend quality time with them over a cup of coffee.
• Join a coffee tasting event and learn about the art and science of growing and brewing coffee.
• Try new flavors and types of coffee.

Did You Know…

...that studies have shown that drinking a moderate amount of coffee can help live a healthier and longer life?

 

 

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“What are you doing?” asked my mother after I pressed several 
buttons on her microwave.

“Reheating these leftovers for two minutes at 80 percent.”

“I didn’t know you could do that.”

“Sure. How do you reheat bacon?”

“Oh,” she said, “that’s two biscuits and a popcorn.”

 

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My friend forgot his laptop on the floor of my room. My grandma thought it was a scale.


Conclusion: My grandma weighs $950.

 

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Take heed, scientists: Not every scientific advancement is Nobel Prize worthy. Some must lay claim to an Ig Nobel Prize, awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine:

The Prize for Physiology went to the report "No Evidence of Contagious Yawning in the Red-Footed Tortoise."

The Prize for Medicine went to a study that demonstrates that people make better decisions about some kinds of things — but worse decisions about other kinds of things — when they have a strong urge to urinate.

The Prize for Biology went to the discovery that a particular kind of beetle mates with a particular kind of Australian beer bottle.

 

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A husband and wife had been married for 60 years and had no 
secrets except for one: The woman kept in her closet a shoe box that 
she forbade her husband from ever opening. But when she was on her deathbed—and with her blessing—he opened the box and found a 
crocheted doll and $95,000 in cash.

“My mother told me that the secret to a happy marriage was to never 
argue,” she explained.

“Instead, I should keep quiet and crochet a doll.”

Her husband was touched. Only one doll was in the box—that meant she’d been angry with him only once in 60 years.

“But what about all this money?” he asked.

“Oh,” she said, “that’s the money 
I made from selling the dolls.”

 

 

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