White Cane Safety Day is a celebration of achievements of blind and visually impaired people and it takes place on October 15^th. It was established in 1964 when the U.S. congress allowed president Lyndon S. Johnson to announce that the day October 15^th would be an annual celebration known as White Cane Safety Day.  
 
In 1969, ICBA decided that the day October 15^th would be the international celebration of White Cane Safety Day. First international celebration took place in 1970. It was officially celebrated for the first time in 1993 in Poland.   
The aim of White Cane Safety Day is to show the issue of blind and visually impaired people to society. It is a good opportunity for the population of people with visual impairment to remind the general public that blind people exist in a society and, although they have their problems, they want to live in the same way as other citizens, without limits and fake pity.