Face Your Fears Day
Face Your Fears Day falls on October 13, and the useful version of it is not bravado but the graded, repeated approach that anxiety treatment actually uses.
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
7 holidays celebrated today.
International Suit Up -day
International Suit Up Day falls on October 13, a fan-made day inspired by Barney Stinson of How I Met Your Mother and his insistence that a good suit improves any occasion.
John Peel Day
John Peel Day honors the BBC broadcaster who spent four decades playing records nobody else would, and who made a career out of being wrong in public.
National Peanut Festival
The National Peanut Festival is held each autumn in Dothan, Alabama, at the end of the peanut harvest, and has run since 1938 with George Washington Carver at the first one.
No Bra Day
No Bra Day falls on October 13 and is a social media awareness day during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, best used as a prompt to learn the signs and book a screening.
Yorkshire Pudding Day
Yorkshire Pudding Day honors a batter that began as a way to catch dripping fat under roasting meat and to fill people up before the expensive part of dinner.
Ada Lovelace Day
Ada Lovelace Day falls on the second Tuesday in October, honoring women in science and named for the mathematician who saw that a calculating engine could do more than calculate.