Day Guide for Wednesday October 20th 2021 What are the holidays on October 20th 2021?

This is our day guide for Wednesday October 20th 2021 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 20th 2021

International: Maulud Nabi

Celebrated by Muslims on the twelfth day of the month of Rabiulawal, the third month of the Muslim calendar

Guatemala: Revolution Day

In 1944, university students and military leaders aligned to overthrow the dictator Jorge Ubico

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India (regional): Lakshmi Puja

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

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India (regional): Maharishi Valmiki Birthday

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

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India (regional): Kumar Purnima

An important festival in Odisha where young women perform religious rites to seek ideal life partners and a bright future.

Kenya: Mashujaa Day

October 20th honours all those who contributed towards the struggle for independence

Myanmar: Full Moon of Thadingyut Holiday Holiday

The Festival of Lights marks the end of the perod of Buddhist lent

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

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General Information for October 20th 2021
There are 8 public holidays today.
Day 293 of 2021
72 days left in 2021
Week 42 of the year
On this Day in History
1977 – Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashes.
1970 - Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state.
1952 - Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and theWar of the Austrian Succession begins.