October 14 Holidays

National Dessert Day celebrates the sweet course that follows a meal in virtually every food culture on Earth — from Japanese mochi to Turkish baklava to American cheesecake — whose cultural variations represent the full spectrum of human ingenuity applied to sugar. Emergency Nurses Day was established to honor the emergency nursing profession — the nurses who staff emergency departments, manage trauma cases, and provide care in the highest-acuity settings in hospital medicine. Be Bald and Be Free Day was created to celebrate male pattern baldness and to encourage those with hair loss to embrace it as a natural, dignified, and increasingly fashionable condition. National Stop Bullying Day was established to raise awareness for bullying — affecting an estimated 20 percent of U.S. high school students — and to encourage schools, parents, and students to adopt zero-tolerance bullying policies.