Day Guide for Monday October 12th 2020 What are the holidays on October 12th 2020?

This is our day guide for Monday October 12th 2020 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 2020

International: Columbus Day

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

International: Indigenous Resistance Day

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

Bahamas: National Heroes' Day

The second Monday in October is National Heroes Day, which replaced Discovery Day in 2013

Belize: Indigenous People’s Resistance Day

Marks the arrival of Columbus in the Americas on October 12th 1492

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

Public sector only

Canada: Thanksgiving

Celebrated on the Second Monday in October and statutory, except in Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

Equatorial Guinea: Independence Day

Independence from Spain on 12 October 1968, when the country became the Republic of Equatorial Guinea

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

North Macedonia: Revolution Day (in lieu)

As Revolution Day falls on a Sunday in 2020, the following Monday will be a public holiday

Samoa: Lotu a Tamaiti Holiday

Day after White Sunday, when parents and communities celebrate childhood

Sint Maarten: Constitution Day

The constitution came into force on October 10th 2010, the date of the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles

Spain: Hispanic Day

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

Turks and Caicos Islands: National Heritage Day

This holiday replaced Columbus Day in 2014, which was also held on the second Monday In October

Regional

USA (regional): US Indigenous People's Day

This state holiday has been adopted on the second Monday in October to replace Columbus Day

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General Information for October 12th 2020
There are 14 public holidays today.
Day 286 of 2020
80 days left in 2020
Week 42 of the year
On this Day in History
1999 - Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
1994 - NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus.
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
1901 - President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.