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October 16
Pavarana (BU)
In the Theravada Buddhist tradition, Pavarana marks the end of the Rains Retreat for the Ordained.

October 16-23
Sukkot (JU)
Sukkot, Succot, or Sukkos (Feast of Booths, Feast of Tabernacles) is a biblical Jewish holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei. It is one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals (shalosh regalim) on which the Israelites would make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem.

October 17
The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (UN)
Celebrated every year on October 17 throughout the world; was officially recognized by the United Nations in 1992, but the first commemoration of the event took place in Paris, France in 1987.

October 17 – November 13
Kathina (BU)
Kathina is a Buddhist festival which comes at the end of Vassa, the three-month rainy season retreat for Theravada Buddhists. The season during which a monastery may hold Kathina is one month long, beginning after the full moon of the eleventh month in the Lunar calendar (usually October).

October 18
Persons Day
An annual event, this day commemorates the case of Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General), more commonly known as The Persons Case – a famous Canadian constitutional case decided on October 18, 1929 by the Judicial Committee of the Imperial Privy Council, at that time the court of last resort for Canada, which held that women were eligible to sit in the Canadian Senate.

October 20
Birth of the Bab (BA)
On October 20th, Baha’is around the world celebrate the Birth of the Báb, one of the founders of this faith. The Báb is often referred to as the Herald of the Baha’i Faith, because it was His mission to prepare the way for Baha’u’llah, the Founder of the Baha’i Faith.

October 23
Shemini Atzeret (JU)
Celebrated on the 22nd day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei in the Land of Israel, and on the 22nd and 23rd outside the Land, it directly follows the Jewish festival of Sukkot and thus Shemini Atzeret is literally the eighth day; it is a separate — yet connected — holy day devoted to the spiritual aspects of the festival of Sukkot.