october 12

Brazil Our Lady of Aparecida Date: 12 October

Brazil Celebrates Our Lady of Aparecida as a National Holiday.

Every year on October 12 more than a hundred thousand people flock to visit the National Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida in Aparecida do Norte, São Paulo.

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Columbus Day Date: October 12, 2009

Columbus Day is celebrated all over North and South America on Second Monday of October.

Most countries all over the world have once been under the rule of the Europeans. The Europeans in search of trade routes to India set forth on journeys in different directions. Most of their journeys ended in vain either being shipwrecked by the violent seas or by pirates. There a few others who did find land but were killed by the natives. Besides all these there were a distinguished few who did live to tell their tales of discovery and bring the unknown world into the maps of European travelers.

One of that fortunate few to find land was Columbus. Christopher Columbus with his three ships set forth on an expedition to find a new sea route to India. On October 12, 1942, a sailor aboard the Pinta cried land and hence Americas were known to the European world.

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Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands Friendship Day: October 12, 2009

Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands Friendship is a public holiday in US Virgin Islands.

“Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands Friendship Day” is observed in the Caribbean nation of U.S. Virgin Islands each year on Columbus Day. This holiday has been celebrated since the 1960s, in celebration of the unique relationship between Virgin Islanders and Puerto Ricans. Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands Friendship Day is celebrated in place of Columbus Day, due to the controversy surrounding the atrocities committed against the indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean during Spanish colonization of the region.

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Samoa Lotu-A-Tamaiti Date: October 12, 2009

Samoa Celebrates Lotu-A-Tamaiti is a public holiday.

The people of Samoa will celebrate its Lotu-A-Tamaiti or White Sunday on the Monday after the second Sunday of October.

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Bouk Ok Pansa: October 12, 2009

Bouk Ok Pansa is a public holiday in Laos.

“Bouk Ok Pansa” means, in Laotian, “End of the Rains Retreat”. It is the day that marks the end of the Buddhists three month retreat during the rainy season. The date changes every year, and falls on the full moon of the eleventh lunar month (October).
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