Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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Child Health Day first Monday in Oct.
Homemade Cookies Day
World Vegetarian Day | 2
Name your Car Day
Peanuts Comic Strip first Published in 1950 | 3
Captain Kangaroo Day first showed aired on this day in 1955
SOS Established Designated as International Distress Code in 1906 | 4
National Golf Day
Sputnik I Launched first space vehicle launched in 1957 | 5
Ray Kroc's Birthday founder of McDonald's born in 1902
World Teacher Day | 6
Thomas Edison shows 1st Motion Picture in 1889 |
7
American Bandstand Premiered in 1957 | 8
Columbus Day
Indigenous People's Day
J. Frank Duryea's birthday born in 1869 (with his brother Charles, built and operated the 1st automobile in the US. Also won America's 1st Auto Race
Thanksgiving Day in Canada | 9
1st Two Way Telephone Conversation in 1876
Leif Ericson Day
Moldy Cheese Day
The Count's Birthday from Sesame Street | 10
Henry Cavendish's Birthday born in England in 1731 | 11
Eleanor Roosevelt's Birthday born in 1884
First Steam Powered Ferryboat begins operation named the "Juliana" began operation in 1811 | 12
Dia de la Raza Celebrated in Mexico
Farmer's Day | 13
First Aerial Photo in US taken from a balloon in Boston in 1860
Margaret Thatcher's Birthday born in 1925 |
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Grover's Birthday Sesame Street Character | 15
National Grouch Day
National poetry Day | 16
Boss's Day
Dictionary Day
World Food Day | 17
Black Poetry Day, honoring Jupiter Hammon, the first American black to publish his poetry | 18
Alaska Day, raising of the US flag at Sitka in 1867
Little Orphan Annie's Birthday Comic strip character in 1922
Puerto Rico became US colony in 1898 | 19
Star Spangled Banner first Sung in 1814
Thomas Edison demonstrated electric light Successfully in 1879 | 20
Micky Mantle's Birthday born in 1931 in Spavinaw Okla.
Monster Mash Day, song by Bobby "Boris" Picket & the Crypt Kickers in 1962
Sweetest Day |
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Guggenheim Museum of Contemporary & Modern Art Opens in New York City Oct 21, 1959
Mother in Law's Day | 22
National Nut Day
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Edison Pele's birthday Brazilian soccer player, born in 1940 | 24
Betty Lou's Birthday, Sesame Street Character
National Bologna Day
United Nation's Day | 25
National Denim Day
Pablo Picasso's Birthday born in Spain in 1881 | 26
Hilary Rodham Clinton's Birthday born in 1947
International Red Cross organized in Geneva, Switzerland in 1863 | 27
Theodore Roosevelt's birthday born in 1858 |
28
Plush Animal Lover's Day
Statue of Liberty's Birthday | 29
National Organization of Women founded in 1966 | 30
John Adam's birthday in 1735 | 31
Halloween
Juliette Gordon Low's birthday born in 1860, the woman who started Girl Scounting in the US in 1912 | | | |
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