September 30 Holidays

International Podcast Day was established in 2014 to celebrate the podcast — the on-demand audio format that has grown from 3.2 million listeners in 2006 to more than 464 million subscribers globally. Botswana Independence Day marks September 30, 1966, when Botswana gained independence from Britain and began a path from one of the world’s poorest countries to one of Africa’s most stable and fastest-growing economies, driven by diamond revenues and governance reform. Blasphemy Day was established in 2009 by the Center for Inquiry to defend free expression and to protest blasphemy laws — eight countries currently punish blasphemy with death, and dozens more impose prison sentences. International Translation Day marks September 30, the feast day of Saint Jerome, the 4th-century theologian who translated the Bible into Latin — chosen by the International Federation of Translators as a tribute to the 640,000 professional translators whose work makes global communication possible.