October 8th Holidays
🐙 World Octopus Day
👁️🗨️ World Sight Day
🐣 International Birth Registration Day
👣 International Podiatry Day
⚕️ Allan Herndon Dudley Syndrome Awareness Day (World MCT8-AHDS Day)
✝️ Feast Day of Saint John Leonardi
🇺🇸 National Pierogi Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Salmon Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Depression Screening Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Fluffernutter Day - USA
🇺🇸 American Touch Tag Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day - USA
🇺🇸 Ombuds Day - USA
🇨🇦 National Children’s Hospice Palliative Care Day - Canada
🇨🇺 Day of the Heroic Guerrilla (Día del Guerrillero Heroico) - Cuba
🇹🇭 Phuket Vegetarian Festival (เทศกาลกินเจภูเก็ต) - Thailand
🇵🇪 Battle of Angamos Day (Combate de Angamos) - Peru
🇮🇳 Indian Air Force Day (वायु सेना दिवस)
🇷🇺 Additional Education Worker Day (День работника дополнительного образования) - Russia
🇦🇲 Tank Operators Day (Տանկիստի օր) - Armenia
🇹🇯 Agriculture Day (Рӯзи кишоварзӣ) - Tajikistan
🇮🇷 Children’s Day (روز کودک) - Iran
🇺🇦 Lawyer’s Day (День юриста) - Ukraine
🇭🇷 Independence Day (Dan neovisnosti) - Croatia
🇳🇿 International Lesbian Day - New Zealand, Australia
🇦🇺 Royal Launceston Show Day - Australia
This Day in History
• On October 8, 1818, in England, boxing gloves were used in combat for the first time 208 yr.
• On October 8, 1926, the world's first football report on the radio took place 100 yr.
• On October 8, 1945, American engineer Percy Spencer has patented a microwave oven 81 yr.
