Day Guide for Thursday October 12th 2017 What are the holidays on October 12th 2017?

This is our day guide for Thursday October 12th 2017 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 12th 2017

International: Race Day

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

Brazil: Lady of Aparecida

Known as 'Nossa Senhora de Aparecida', it honours Brazil's patron saint, the Virgin Mary Aparecida. Mary is honoured with a ten day festival in the city near São Paulo that bears her name

Israel: Simchat Torah

Marks the end of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle.

Mexico: Day of the Pluricultural Nation

Not an official holiday, this day commemorates the exact date when Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas

Spain: Hispanic Day

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

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General Information for October 12th 2017
There are 5 public holidays today.
Day 285 of 2017
80 days left in 2017
Week 41 of the year
On this Day in History
1994 - NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus.
1979 - The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
1960 - Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Unioncolonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe
1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.