This is our day guide for Sunday October 15th 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 15th 2017
Not a Public Holiday
Argentina: Mother's Day
In Argentina, Mother's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of October.
Cambodia: Commemoration Day of King's Father
Norodom Sihanouk
Tunisia: Evacuation Day
Commemorates the retreat of last French soldiers from Bizerte on October 15th 1963Go to Today | October 16th 2017
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| General Information for October 15th 2017 | |
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| There are 3 public holidays today. | |
| Day 288 of 2017 | |
| 77 days left in 2017 | |
| Week 41 of the year | |
| On this Day in History | |
| 2003 - The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi runs into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43. | |
| 1997 - The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn. | |
| 1997 – The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke thesound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere. | |
| 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. |
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