Balloons Around the World Day celebrates the art of balloon sculpture. This event attracts both amateur and professional balloon sculptors. Just one request - if you're near me, try to avoid making that squeaky, rubby sound while twisting your balloons.
Does your car have a name, or does the concept creep you out because of the movie Christine? Today is Name Your Car Day.
Today is Phileas Fogg's Wager Day, as depicted in the Jules Verne novel, Around the World in Eighty Days. Main character Phileas Fogg made the following wager on October 2nd: "I will bet twenty thousand pounds against anyone who wishes that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less; in nineteen hundred and twenty hours, or a hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred minutes." SPOILER ALERT: December 21st is celebrated as Phileas Fogg Wins a Wager Day.
World Farm Animals Day is "dedicated to exposing, mourning, and memorializing the more than 65 billion cows, pigs, turkeys, chickens, and other land animals who needlessly suffer and die every year in the world's farms and slaughterhouses."
Today's the day to do something nice for the person who keeps your workspace clean. Celebrate National Custodial Worker Day.
The United Nations sponsors International Day of Non-Violence on the birth date of Mahatma Gandhi.
Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Guardian Angels on this day.
Guinea observes Independence Day on October 2nd.
The only foodie celebration in today's plethora of holidays is National Fried Scallops Day. Enjoy this seafood delicacy with your favorite sauce - tartar, cocktail, or butter.
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