The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Observed On This Date
International Awareness Day or Observance
Observed annually on 16 October to mark the 1945 founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.