GARE Diversity Calendar

October 2025


10/1 Purple star icon International Day for Older Persons (UN)
10/1 Red bar icon Maha Navami (Hindu)
10/1 Red bar icon Yom Kippur begins (Jewish)
10/2 Red bar icon Dussehra (Hindu)
10/2 Red bar icon Yom Kippur ends (Jewish)
10/2 Green Triangle icon Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday
10/2 Purple star icon International Day of Nonviolence (UN)
10/4 Red bar icon Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (Christian)
10/5 Purple star icon World Teachers’ Day
10/5 Red bar icon Onam (Hindu)
10/6 Purple star icon Child Health Day
10/6 Purple star icon World Habitat Day (UN)
10/7 Red bar icon First Day of Sukkot (Jewish)
10/8 Purple star icon International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
10/9
10/9 Purple star icon World Post Day (UN)
10/10 Purple star icon World Mental Health Day (UN)
10/10 Purple star icon World Inclusion Day
10/10 Purple star icon World Sight Day
10/11 Purple star icon International Day of the Girl Child (UN)
10/11 Blue circle National Coming Out Day (LGBTQIAA+)
10/12 Purple star icon World Arthritis Day
10/12 Blue circle National Freethought Day
10/13 Red bar icon Last Day of Sukkot
10/13 Blue circle Indigenous Peoples’ Day
10/14 Red bar icon Shemini Atzeret (Jewish)
10/15 Red bar icon Simchat Torah (Jewish)
10/15 Blue circle White Cane Safety Day (Blind Awareness)
10/15 Purple star icon International Pronouns Day
10/16 Purple star icon World Food Day (UN)
10/16 Blue circle Boss’s Day
10/16 Blue circle Spirit Day (LGBTQIAA+ anti-bullying)
10/17 Purple star icon International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (UN)
10/18 Purple star icon World Menopause Day
10/19 Purple star icon International Breast Cancer Day
10/20 Red bar icon Deepavali (Hindu)
10/20 Red bar icon Gur-Gaddi Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh)
10/20 Purple star icon World Osteoporosis Day
10/21 Red bar icon Bandi-Chhor Diwas (Sikh)
10/22 Red bar icon Birth of the Bab (Baha’i)
10/23 Red bar icon Birth of Baha’u’llah (Baha’i)
10/23
10/24 Purple star icon United Nations Day (UN)
10/26 Red bar icon Christ the King (Christian)
10/27 Purple star icon World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
10/29 Purple star icon World Stroke Day
10/31 Blue circle Halloween


Color Shape Key

Green Triangle icon Green Triangle – Diversity Leaders’ Birthdays
Blue circle Blue Circle – United States Holidays
Red bar icon Red Bar – Religious / Cultural Holidays
Purple star icon Purple Star- International Holidays
black square Black Square – Equinoxes