Holidays and Observances
- Arbor Day (Poland)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Cerbonius
- Paulinus of York (in England)
- Viktor of Xanten
- October 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Double Ten Day (also National Day), celebrates outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911 that led to founding of the Republic of China in 1912
- Fiji Day, celebrates the independence of Fiji from United Kingdom in 1970
- Finnish Literature Day (Finland)
- Independence Day, commemorates the proclamation of Cuba's independence from Spain and the beginning of the Ten Years' War in 1868.
- Party Foundation Day (North Korea)
- World Day Against Death Penalty (International)
- World Mental Health Day (International)
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“... if it be true that death is annihilation, then the man who believes that he will certainly go straight to heaven when he dies, provided he has fulfilled certain simply observances in this life, has a cheap pleasure which will not be followed by the least disappointment.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
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