October

October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days.

Events in October

• Major League Baseball Playoffs
• National Coming Out Day
• Second Monday of the month: Thanksgiving in Canada, Columbus Day in the USA.
• The European Union and the USA revert back from Summer Time (Daylight Saving Time) to regular zone time on the last Sunday of the month, from 3 AM to 2 AM. At Merton College, Oxford, this has been celebrated since 1972 with a backward procession round Fellow's Quad between 2 A.M. BST and 2 A.M. GMT.
• The last Monday in October is one of the public holidays in the Republic of Ireland and in the Irish Calendar the month is called Deireadh Fómhair (literally "End of Autumn") and is the third and last month of the Autumn season.
• The Oktober Fest in Germany
• Halloween on the night of 31 October to 1 November
• In the pagan wheel of the year October ends at or near to Samhain in the northern hemisphere and Bealtaine in the southern hemisphere.
• The Russian October Revolution of 1917 (which took place on November 7 in the Gregorian Calendar).