September 27th - October 3rd

 
   

The world this week

 

 

 

Monday 

September27th

 

 

United Nations    

Business

Conferences

 

 

World Tourism Day

Organized by

 World Tourism Organization

 
   

 

World

Low cost Airlines

Conference

3 days, London

 

 

Tuesday

September 28th

200 National Celebrations

around the World

   

Birthdays

   

 

Czech Statehood Day

On the day that St. Wenceslas, Duke of Bohemia, was murdered by his brother in 935AD

 

 

 

 

French actress, and fashion model

Brigitte  Bardot

(1934)

 

   

Wednesday

September29th

 

 

       

Birthdays

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Lech Walesa

 co-founder of Solidarity, Nobel Peace Prize winner  and President of Poland

(1943)

 

Michelle Bachelet

President of Chile

(1951)

 

 

Road Cycling

World Championships

Geelong, Australia

Until 3rd October

Thursday

September 30th

 

 

 

 

Obscure

Celebrations

International Observations Travel conservation  

 

Ig Nobles

21st annual Prize Ceremony for the awards given by the

 Annals of Improbable Research

 

These are given for 'achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.'

 

 

International Translation Day

Celebrated on the feast of St. Jerome the patron saint of translators

 

 

Lufthansa open first regular flights into Baghdad

 

Clean energy Forum

Lisbon

until 1st October

 

Friday

October 1st

 

October's birthstone is the opal.

200 National Celebrations

around the World

International

Observations

Birthdays

Sport250

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National Day

 People's Republic of China

The PRC was founded on October 1, 1949 at a ceremony in Tiananmen Square

Celebrated with festivities, fireworks and concerts.

 

 

 

World Vegetarian Day

Established by the North American Vegetarian Society in 1977, "To promote the joy, compassion and life-enhancing possibilities of vegetarianism."

 

Starts a  month of Vegetarian Awareness

 

 

James Carter

 39th President of the United States and  Nobel Peace Prize, winner in 2002

(1924)

 

Golf

Ryder Cup
USA v Europe team

competition
Newport,
United Kingdom
 

3days

 

 

 

Independence Day

Cyprus and

Nigeria

International

Observations

Education

Nature and conservation

 

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

 

 

British universities

start this month

 

 

East Africa will be waiting for the rains to start.

Blue whales gathering off the west Coast of the USA.

Courting season for penguins and seabirds in Antarctica

 

Saturday

October 2nd

 

International events

Farming

Wider World

of Sport

 

 

 Birthday of

Mahatma Gandhi

A national holiday in India

 

and

The International Day of

Non-Violence

Agreed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007

 

 

 

In England Ewes are brought to the most fertile pastures to be "flushed" on a good diet  to  increase ovulation and improve conception prior to mating.

 

Also

World Farm Animals Day

 

The

Lifesaving World

Championships

Rescue 2010

Will attract 3000 competitors  

Alexandria  Egypt  until 17 October

 

 

 

World's Greatest

Festivals and Carnivals

 

Albuquerque International

Balloon Fiesta

A world renowned gathering of hot air balloons

Until10th

National Days Birthdays

 

Independence Day

Guinea

Celebrates independence from France in 1958

 

 

Gordon  Sumner

 Sting

musician with The Police and winner of sixteen Grammy Awards

(1951),

 

Donald McLean 

Singer-writer of American Pie

(1945)

 

Sunday

October 3rd

 

 

 

 

 

Elections

200 National Celebrations

around the World

Music

Commonwealth

Games

Time

 

Elections this weekend

 

Brazil

President and Parliament

 elections  today  Latvia

Presidential and Parliamentary elections Saturday

·  

Day of German Unity

 A public holiday to commemorate the anniversary of German reunification

 

 National Foundation Day

South Korea

 

 

U2

360° Tour

Final concert Coimbra, Portugal

 

 

Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games

Delhi, India

until 14th

 

Daylight

Saving

Time

starts in Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica

 

World's Greatest

Horse Races

 

Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

 The 'Arc'  is the most prestigious horse race on mainland Europe

Longchamps, Paris

 

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