World Food Day.
The United Nations Memorial Day was established by a resolution of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Conference in 1979. The holiday is held on the date of the organization's founding – October 16, 1945.
World Bread Day.
This holiday was established in 2006 on the initiative of the International Union of Bakers and Confectioners.
Bread baking began as early as 15 thousand years BC. According to scientists, during the process of cooking cereal porridge, part of the flour spilled out and turned into a golden cake, attracting eaters with its pleasant aroma and taste.
Today, bread is one of the most popular foods worldwide, and each country has its own tradition of preparing this dish. For example, in Russia, loaf bread and rye bread have become traditional, in the Middle East – pita, in France – baguette, in Italy – focaccia, in the North Caucasus – churek.
And most of all they love bread in Türkiye. This country is even listed in the Guinness Book of Records – they consume about 200 kg of bread per capita per year.
International Credit Union Day
This holiday was established in 1948 at the initiative of the National Credit Union of the United States and is celebrated annually on the third Thursday in October. In 2025 it falls on the 16th.
Wild Cat Day
An unusual holiday was born in 2001 in the United States at the initiative of the national human rights organization Allies of Stray Cats.
The cat family has about 40 species, from small species weighing about 1 kg and body length from 35 to 48 cm (spotted red cat), to giant species – up to 3.8 meters tall and weighing 300 kg (Amur tiger).
Boss day.
The idea of celebrating this holiday belongs to American Patricia Harovsky. She works as a secretary at an insurance company run by her father. Patricia, on behalf of all employees, decided to thank her father for his leadership and registered October 16 (her father's birthday) with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as a professional holiday for leaders – Boss's Day.
Today this holiday is celebrated not only in America, but also in England, Australia and South Africa.
World Anesthesiologists Day.
Unofficial professional holiday of anesthesiologists-resuscitators and all specialists in this field of medicine. On October 16, 1846, the first anesthetic surgery in the history of medicine was performed. At Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, surgeon John Warren successfully removed a large tumor from the neck of a patient named Gilbert Abbott under ether anesthesia.
35 years ago (1990) the RSFSR Law “On the referendum of the RSFSR” was passed.
According to the document, an all-Russian referendum is “a nationwide vote on the most important issues of the state and public life of the republic.”
The right to decide on holding a referendum belongs to the Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR, and in the period between congresses – to the Supreme Soviet of Russia. People's deputies can make such a decision on their own initiative or at the request of at least one million RSFSR citizens with the right to participate in the referendum or at least one third of the total number of people's deputies of the RSFSR.
Questions about changing the status and territorial integrity of the entities constituting the RSFSR, taxes, budget, amnesty, amnesty, emergency and urgent measures to ensure public order, health and safety of the population cannot be put to a referendum. Decisions taken at the All-Russian referendum have the highest legal value and do not require any approval.
This law became the first legislative act in the history of the Soviet Union providing for the holding of a referendum.
