Day Guide for Saturday October 15th 2016 What are the holidays on October 15th 2016?

This is our day guide for Saturday October 15th 2016 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 15th 2016

Cambodia: Commemoration Day of King's Father

Norodom Sihanouk

Estonia: Ethnicity day

day dedicated to the Estonian unique language and cultural identity

Regional

India (regional): Lakshmi Puja

The most important day to worship Goddess Lakshmi falls on the full moon day in lunar month Ashwin

Regional

India (regional): Maharishi Valmiki Birthday

Valmiki is celebrated as the harbinger-poet in Sanskrit literature. He lived in the first millennium BCE

Sri Lanka: Vap Full Moon Poya

Marks Buddha's preaching of Abhidamma to the gods in Tavatimsa and the end of the Buddhist period of fasting

Tunisia: Evacuation Day

Commemorates the retreat of last French soldiers from Bizerte on October 15th 1963

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General Information for October 15th 2016
There are 6 public holidays today.
Day 289 of 2016
77 days left in 2016
Week 41 of the year
On this Day in History
2001 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
1987 – The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
1951 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first three oral contraceptives.
1940 – The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.