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R.C. saints - Saint Ursula and her 11 (or 11000) virgins; Saint Hilarion

Also see October 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Republic of China - Overseas Chinese Day

Trafalgar Day ? celebrated throughout much of the British Empire in the 19th and early 20th Century.

International Day of the Nacho ? celebrated in the United States and Mexico since the early 1990s.

Diwali in India (2006)

French Republican Calendar - Tonneau (Barrel) Day, thirtieth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

In the comic novel Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, the Earth was born on this day in 4004 BC, within a quarter of an hour of 9 in the morning. This was supposedly because God liked to get things over with early.

 
 

 

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