National Pasta Day
National Pasta Day falls on October 17, honoring a food of two ingredients whose hundreds of shapes exist for reasons of sauce physics rather than decoration.
Saturday, October 17, 2026
5 holidays celebrated today.
Spreadsheet Day
Spreadsheet Day falls on October 17, the anniversary of VisiCalc's release in 1979, the program that gave people a reason to buy a personal computer.
Wear Something Gaudy Day
Wear Something Gaudy Day falls on October 17, suspending taste for a day, and the word itself descends from the Latin for joy rather than for vulgarity.
Bridge Day
Bridge Day falls on the third Saturday in October in West Virginia, the one day each year the New River Gorge Bridge is closed to traffic and opened to BASE jumpers.
Sweetest Day
Sweetest Day falls on the third Saturday in October, a regional Midwestern observance that began in 1920s Cleveland and has been called a candy-industry invention ever since.