Taiwan’s National Day

Party Foundation Day in North Korea, marking the anniversary of foundation of the Workers’ Party of Korea

Fiji Day, marking the anniversary of its independence from the UK (1970)

World Mental Health Day

World Homeless Day

Ada Lovelace Day, aimed at increasing the profile of women in STEM

The First Australian Space Cyber Forum – Adelaide

World Porridge Day

Birthdays for Nora Roberts (1950) and David Lee Roth (1954)

Anniversary of:
• the first dinner jacket (tuxedo) being worn to an autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY (1886)
• the formation of the Women’s Social and Political Union by Emmeline Pankhurst to fight for women’s rights in Britain (1903)
• the release of the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations (1966)
• the deaths of Abel Tasman (1659), Orson Welles (1985), Yul Brynner (1985), Christopher Reeve (2004), and Dame Joan Sutherland (2010)