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| OCTOBER is . . . Winter Month, American Magazine Month, Adopt-A-Pet Month, Auto Battery Safety Month, Campaign for Healthier Babies Month, Computer Learning Month, Consumer Information Month, Cookbook Month, Country Music Month, Crime Prevention Month, Domestic Violence Month, Energy Awareness Month, Fire Prevention Month, Hunger Awareness Month, Mental Illness Awareness Month, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National Cosmetology Month, National Dental Hygiene Month, National Pasta Month, National Pizza Festival Month, National Quality Month, Gourmet Adventures Month, International Doll Collectors Month, International Marine Travel Month, Museum Month, National Adopt-A-Shelter-Dog Month, National Family Sexuality Month, National Cooperative Month, National Popcorn Poppin' Month, National Restaurant-Hospitality Month, National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month, National Pork Month, National Seafood Month, National UNICEF Month, National Youth Against Tobacco Month, Spectacle of the Geese Month, Spina Bifida Month, Stamp Collecting Month, National Pretzel Month, National Clock Month, Month of the Hedgehog, Vegetarian Awareness Month, Co-Op Awareness Month, Family History Month, International Book Fair Month, Lupus Awareness Month, National Apple Jack Month, National AIDS Awareness Month, National Communicate With Your Kid Month, National Depression Education and Awareness Month, National Dessert Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, National Family Sexuality Education Month, National Health Care Food Service Month, National Infertility Awareness Month, National Kitchen and Bath Month, National Sarcastics Awareness Month, Polish American Heritage Month, National Car Care Month |
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| 1st Week | 2nd Week | ||
| Newspaper Week (Japan) Get Organized Week National Higher Education Week Universal Children's Week Minority Enterprise Week National Spinning & Weaving Week National Customer Service Week Mental Illness Awareness Week National Health Care Food Service Week Teens on the Town Gourmet Club Week National Schoolbus Safety Week National Temp Help Week National Remanufacturing Week National Port Week (begins 1st Wed) |
American Beer Week National Metric Week Fire Prevention Week National School Lunch Week National Business Woman's Week National Pet Peeve Week Home-Based Business Week National Pasta Week National Newspaper Week National Employ the Handicapped Week National 4-H Week International Letter Writing Week National Bookkeeper's Week National Respect Life Week National Fashion Week | ||
| 3rd Week | 4th Week | National Kraut Sandwich Week Credit Union Week National Pickled Pepper Week Getting the World to Beat a Path to Your Door Week Peace With Justice Week National YMCA Teen Week National Forest Products Week Bible Week National Business Women's Week International Pinball Week |
National Magic Week Peace, Friendship and Good Will Week National Cleaner Air Week National Hug-A-Vending Machine Week National Forest Products Week Toastmaster's Week National Consumers Week National Save Your Back Week New International Version of the Bible Week Disarmament Week (24th-30th) |
| October Movable Daily Holidays | |
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| Day | Holiday |
| Sunday before the 2nd | Tap-Up Sunday |
| 1st Sunday | Grandparent's Day Blessing of the Fishing Fleet |
| 1st Weekend | California Avocado Festival (Carpinteria, California) |
| 1st Monday | Child Health Day Universal Children's Day (UN) Wold Habitat Day (UN) |
| 1st Thursday | Nottingham Goose Fair begins (UK) |
| 1st Saturday | Black Cowboy Parade (Oakland, California) |
| 2nd Weekend | America's Sexy Wines Contest (Albuquerque, New Mexico) Fireant Festival (Marshall, Texas) National Wild Turkey Calling Contest & Turkey Trot Festival (Yellville, Arkansas) Parke County Covered Bridge Festival begins (Indiana) |
| 2nd Sunday | White Sunday (Western Samoa) Good Thief Sunday Sunbeam Sliding Sunday (Fairy) Cirio De Nazare begins (Brazil) |
| 2nd Monday | Discoverer's Day Pioneer's Day (South Dakota) Thanksgiving Day (Canada) Columbus Day observed (US) Virgin Islands-Puerto Rico Friendship Day |
| 2nd Tuesday | Fraternal Day (Alabama) |
| 2nd Wednesday | International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction (UN) |
| 2nd Thursday | National Dessert Day |
| 2nd Saturday | America's Sexy Wives Contest Fall Harvest Day (Maryland) National Wild Turkey Calling Contest and Turkey Trot Festival (Yellville, Arkansas) |
| 3rd Sunday | National Shut-In Visitation Day Boss' Day |
| 3rd Monday | Hurricane Thanksgiving Day (Virgin Islands) National Heroes Day (Jamaica) |
| 3rd Wednesday | Missouri Day (Missouri) |
| 3rd Saturday | Sweetest Day Frabjous Day Ironman Triathalon |
| 4th Sunday | Exaltation of the Shellfish (Spain) Mother-in-Law Day |
| Last Sunday | Standard Time resumes; turn back your clock at 2:00 a.m. Feast of Christ the King |
| Last Thursday | Punkie Night (Somerset, UK) |
| Sunday before the 31st | Reformation Sunday |
| 27th Day of 8th Lunar Month | Birthday of Confucius Observance |
| October Indeterminate Holidays The holidays in this table are either based on calendars other than the Gregorian Calendar or are keyed to natural events such as seasons or cosmological phenomena |
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| 15th Day of dark 1/2 of Kartika, 8th Hindu month (@ Oct/Nov) | Divali |
| 2nd Day of bright 1/2 of Kartika, 8th Hindu month (@ Oct/Nov) | Bhai Dooj |
| Night before full moon of Kartika, 8th Hindu month (@ Oct/Nov) | Pushcar Fair begins (India) |
| Full Moon Day of 11th Buddhist month (@ Oct/Nov) | Buddhist Lent ends |
| Full Moon Day of 11th Buddhist month (@ Oct/Nov) to Full Moon Day of 12th Buddhist month (@ Dec/Jan) | Robe Offering Month |
| Full Moon Day of Thadingyut, Burmese month | Paung-daw-U Pagoda Festival (Burma) |
| 9th Day of 9th Chinese moon (@ Oct/Nov) | Chinese Chong Jiu Festival |
| 1st Day of Shawwal, 9th Islamic month | Eid al-Fitr (Breaking of the Fast) |
| 1st Day of Bhadra, Nepalese month | Gai Jatra (Cow Festival; Nepal) |
| Early October | Oktoberfest Beer Festivals (US) |
| Mid-October | World Series of Baseball begins (US, Canada) |
| Sometime in October | Potato Days (Norway) Fantasia (Morocco) |
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| 1 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Paul Dukas Jimmy Carter Walter Mathhau Kona Carmack (Pb 2/96) Daniel Boorstein Vladimir Horowitz Julie Andrews Bonnie Parker James Whitmore George Peppard Larry Poons Stella Stevens (Pb 1/60) Henry III (1207) Rod Carew Gigi Lau Richard Stockton Tom Bosley Mark McGwire Edward Villella William E. Boeing Stanley Holloway Edward P. Boland Laurence Harvey Charles G. Fullerton Sergey Aksakov Annie Besant Grete Waitz Randy Quaid Faith Baldwin James Lawrence Richard Harris Donny Hathaway John Mackovic Rufus Choate William Rehnquist John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg Charles VI Firepup |
World Vegetation Day Magic Circles Day Fides (Old Roman Goddess of Faithfulness) Hungary Independence Day Universal Children's Day International Day for the Elderly Cameroon Unification Day Feast of Penha (Brazil) Nigeria Independence Day Pudding Season begins Flattering Finals (Fairy) St. Remigius' Day (aka Remi; patron of France) Cyprus Independence Day Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux (patron of florists, foreign missions, France, pilots; against tuberculosis) Kalends of October Armed Forces Day (Korea) Tuvalu National Holiday Medical New Year St. Theresa of the Child Jesus' Day (patron of missions) Agricultural Fair Day Day of the Caudillo (Spain) St. Romanos' Day People's Republic of China Independence(?) Day US Fiscal Year begins |
| October 1 Events | Yosemite National Park established
(1890) Honeymooners debut Beatles' Abbey Road released Ford Model-T 1st for sale (1908) Pennsylvania Turnpike opened (1940) 1st Yacht race Trail of Tears (4000 Cherokees die when forced to Oklahoma; 1838) Mr. Ed 1st spoke (1961) 1st State Fair in US (1810) Netscape's 1st beta web browser released (1994) Lawrence of Arabia captured Damascus Chopsticks 1st played on the piano 1st Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson National Geographic 1st published (1888) BBC began regular broadcasts in London (1936) John Philip Sousa became conductor of U.S. Marine Corp Band (1880) Disney World opened (1971) 1st World Series began (1902) London University opened (1828) St. Louis County founded (1812) Epcot Center opened (1982) Watergate trial began (1974) Rural Mail delivery began in US (1896) Mitchell Comet discovered (1847) Sex Education taught for the 1st time King of Siam died (1868) Special Delivery postal service began (1885) Commercial production of lightbulbs began (1880) Sound Barrier 1st broken by a Concorde (1969) European railroads linked with Russia (1903) Roger Maris hit Home Run #61 (1961) Blondie's Total Eclipse of the Heart reached No. 1 (1983) Polly Klaas kidnapped (Petaluma, California; 1993) 1st Piggly Wiggly supermarket opened (1916) Raven Sherman died (Terry & the Pirates comic strip; 1941) Kenneth Brannagh and Emma Thompson separated (1995) Edison Lamp Works began producing electric light bulbs (1880) Meco's Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band reached No. 1 (1977) Danielle Steele published 1st book (Going Home; 1973) Ralph & Norton bought their 1st TV (on the Honeymooners; 1955) Bill Hicks bumped from Letterman show for questionable reasons (1993) Lawrence of Arabia and Arab forces captured Damascus (1918) Babe Ruth called his shot in game 5 of the World Series, pointing to center field, and then hitting a home run (1932) |
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| 2 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Mohandas K. "Mahatma" Gandhi Sting (Gordon Sumner) Hieronymus Bosch Groucho Marx Sherry Arnett (Pb 1/86) Ruth Rohde Graham Greene Nat Turner Charles Ricketts Mike Rutherford Bud Abbott Donna Karan Bunny Bleau Kimberly Herrin (Pb 3/81) Erica Boyer Moses Gunn Alex Raymond Rex Reed Cordell Hull Annette Anderson Don McLean Maury Wills Kathryn Morrison (Pb 5/78) Willy Ley Yuri Glazkov Spanky McFarland Mickey Marvin Clay S. Felker Roy Campbell Charlie Brown Yogi Bear Snoopy |
Old Man's Day (Hertfordshire, UK) Goddess Month of Mala ends Feast of Guardian Angels (Spain; patron of police) Name Your Car Day World Farm Animals Day Buttering-Up Quarter Finals (Fairy) National French Fried Scallops Day Guinea Republic Day Fashion Farrex (UK) Marching Band Festival St. Leger's Day (aka Leodegar; patron against blindness) Book It/National Young Reader's Day |
| October 2 Events | Phileas Fogg begins his 80-day trip around the world
(1872) 1st Atomic clock starts ticking Oldest Rocks known on Earth formed (Sagan calendar) Peanuts comic strip debuted (1950) Tin Can with opener patented Brigham Young arrested for polygamy (1871) Twilight Zone debuted (1959) Geneva Convention begins YMCA established Password debuted (1961) Cartier landed at Montreal (1535) London's red doubledecker buses began service (1925) Cries of Mutiny are 1st heard on Columbus' ships Environmental Protection Agency established Secret Squirrel debuted Redwood National Park established (1868) Aristole died (322 BCE) Peanuts comic strip began (1950) This Old House debuted (1979) 1st Pan American Conference held (1889) Thurgood Marshall appointed to US Supreme Court (1967) London becomes a "smokeless zone" Chevrolet sold its 1st Covair (1959) Samuel Adams died (1803) O.J. Simpson circus trial finally ended (1995) Rod Stewart's Maggie May reached No. 1 (1971) Santa Anna led 1st Texas Uprising (1835) Pitcher Bobby Feller struck out 18 Detroit Tigers in a row (1938) Catholic Church declared papal infallibility extended to matters of faith and morals (1870) British Major John Andre hanged as spy for being involved in a plot with Benedict Arnold (1780) |
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| 3 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Pierre Bonnard Thomas Wolfe Harvey Kurtzman Chubby Checker Gore Vidal Patrick Manson Timothy Bottoms Warner Oland Li Tzu-ch'eng Patrick Manson Leo McCarey Johnny Burke William Crawford Gorgas Steve Reich Pamela Hensley George Bancroft John Gorrie Eddie Cochran George Ripley James Darren Karen Elaine Morton (Pb 7/78) Lindsey Buckingham Madlyn Rhue Francisco Morazan William C. Gorgas Eleanora Duse Fred Clarke Jeff Bingaman Dave Winfield Travis Hill |
Feast of Free Spirits Dionysus' Day (also St. Dionysis' Day) Goddess Month of Hathor begins Child Health Day Virus Appreciation Day Buttering-Up Semi-Finals (Fairy) Dog Day St. Theresa of Lisieux' Day (patron of missions) National Carmel Custard Day Leiden Day (Netherlands; 1573) National Foundation Day (Korea; 2333 B.C.) Chung Yeung Festival (Hong Kong) St. Gerard of Brogne's Day (patron against jaundice, scrofula) Morazan Day (Honduras) Goose Fair (Nottingham, U.K.) St. Thomas de Cantilupe's Day |
| October 3 Events | Dick Van Dyke Show debuted Motor driven vaccuum cleaner patented Father Knows Best debuted (1954) Cartier discovered Montreal Mickey Mouse Club debuted (1955) SOS established as international distress code (1906) Ozzie and Harriet debuted Underdog debuted 1st Female US Senator took office (1922) Johns Hopkins University established (1876) Germany reunified (1990) UK 1st exploded an atomic bomb (1952) Andy Griffith Show debuted (1960) Francis of Assisi died (1226) Postal codes introduced in UK (1959) Bob Bundurant drove in his 1st Grand Prix race (1965) Chevrolet resumed auto production after WW2 (1945) Frank Robinson named 1st black MLB manager (1974) Thanksgiving officially designated by Lincoln as a national holiday (1863) Gilligan's Island staged a production of Hamlet (1966) Sinead O'Connor ripped up the pope's picture on Saturday Night Live (1992) UK Law chied resigned in sex scandal (1991) Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra orbited the Earth 6 times (1962) Charles II revoked the Massachusetts Bay Colony Charter fir ignoring Navigation acts and the Church of England (1684) O.J. Simpson incredulously found not guilty (1995) |
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| 4 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Alicia Silverstone Rutherford B. Hayes Charlton Heston Frederic Remington Anne Rice Edward L. Stratemeyer Dick Tracy Giovanni Piranesi Pancho Villa Buddy Bolden Richard Cromwell Buster Keaton Armand Assante Jean-Francois Millet Lori Saunders Damon Runyon Louis X (the Stubborn) Sam Huff Christina Smith (Pb 3/78) Susan Sarandon Alvin Toffler Michael Pupin Jan Murray Buddy Roemer Tony LaRussa Patti LaBelle Mike Adamle Sam Huff Clifton Davis Jackie Collins |
Vodka Day See the Light Day Buttering-Up Final (Fairy) Lesotho Independence Day St. Francis of Assisi's Day (patron of animals, ecology, Italy, merchants, needle workers, tapestry makers; against fire) Carrying in the Pudding (London, UK) National Taco Day St. Ammon's Day 10-4 Day (C.B.) St. Petronius' Day Widcombe Fair (U.K.) |
| October 4 Events | Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier New Amsterdam renamed New York (1664) Leave it to Beaver debuted (1957) Sputnik, the 1st satellite, launched (1957) 1st Balloon race Dick Tracy comic strip began (1931) Maltese Falcon premiered 1st English bible translation published (1535) Crusader Rabbit debuted Max Planck died (1947) Gregorian Calendar adopted (1582) Buick introduced the Riviera (1962) 1st External Pacemaker installed (1952) Janis Joplin died of an overdose (1970) Rembrandt died (1669) San Jose Sharks played their 1st game Pope Paul VI visited US (1965) Mexico became a republic (1824) Boys' Brigade founded (Glasgow; 1883) IRA's 7-month hunger striked ended (1981) New York City's Delmonico's restaurant closed (1918) German Freedom of the Press suspended by Hitler (1933) Battle of Germantown (U.S. War of Independence) Queen's Another One Bites the Dust reached No. 1 (1980) |
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| 5 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Karen Allen Ray Kroc Chester A. Arthur Dionysius Diderot Fracesco Guardi Robert Goddard Thomas Anshutz Bob Geldof Johnathan Edwards Chevalier d'Eon Glynis Johns Joshua Logan Robert Adams Vaclav Havel Penny Baker (Pb 1/84) Steve Miller Jeanne Evert Bill Dana Jean-Louis Lumiere Donald Pleasance Larry Fine Pavel R. Popovich Bill Willis Richard Gehr Jeff Conaway Walter Dale Miller Randy Bush Trace Armstrong Jimmy Cefalo Mario Lemieux Bil Keane |
Universal Children's Day Feast of the Empire of Lies Outer Space Nation of Celestia Independence Day Sea Serpant Day Mania Mundus (Festival to remember departed ancestors) Indian Day (Oklahoma) St. Placid's Day (patron against chills, drowning) National Apple Betty Day Autumn Leaf Festival Festival of the Five Toes (Fairy) Bulgaria Independence Day Dionysiad (Husi, Romania) National Storytelling Festival Wild Turkey Calling Tournament Unicorn Questing Season begins |
| October 5 Events | PBS debuted 2 states had the same winning lottery numbers (NJ & PA) Detective Story Magazine debuted You Bet Your Life debuted (1950) Declaration of the Rights of Man published (1789) Beatles' Love Me Do went gold Columbus discovered Costa Rica Jarrow Hunger March Crusade (UK; 1936) Dalton Gang robbed two banks Pope Gregory drops 14 days from calendar (1582) Monty Python's 1st season debuted (1969) 1st UK Hunger March held (1936) Frodo crossed the Bridge of Mitheithel (Hobbit) Columbus discovered Costa Rica Gumby cancelled (1957) Antioch College founded (1853) Moulin Rouge opened in Paris (1889) 1st Submarine attack (US Civil War; 1863) Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce surrendered (1877) Earl Warren sworn in as Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1953) Citizen Brewery, brewers of Pilsner Urquell, started brewing beer in the town of Pilsen, in what is now the Czech Republic (1842) Treaty of Ildefonso signed between Spain and France (1796) Bobby Darin's Mack the Knife reached No. 1 (1959) 1st Baby show Disney's The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad premiered (1949) Rosanne found her daughter's pot stash, smoking it with Dan for old times sake (on Rosanne; 1993) James T. Mangan charges the USSR with trespassing after Sputnik claiming that he filed a formal charter with the Cook County Recorder making outer-space his private domain (1957) |
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| 6 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Le Corbusier Jenny Lind Karol Szymanowski Britt Ekland Thor Heyerdahl Carol Lombard Janet Gaynor Stephanie Zimbalist Fritz Scholder Shana Alexander George Westinghouse Samantha Torres (Pb 12/95) Albert J. Beveridge Shana Alexander Reginald Fessenden Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd Kevin Cronin Ruben Angel Sierra Fred Travalena Jimmie Johnson Napoleon McCallum John Cougar Mellencamp Ruben Sierra |
Erntedankfest (Germany; Potato Harvest Festival) Ivy Day (Ireland) St. Faith's Day (patron of prisoners, soldiers) National Noodle Day Festival of Spiritual Anarchy Apple Havest Festival National German-American Day Come and Take It Day (Texas) Physician Assistant Day Ashura (Muslim) Gopher Hill Day Chowderfest Festival of the Other Five Toes (Fairy) German Day (aka German Pioneer Day; Pennsylvania) St. Bruno's Day (patron against demonic possession) Armed Forces Day (Egypt) Brussel Sprout Festival St. Thomas' Day (Greek) |
| October 6 Events | Self-winding clock patented Dating Game debuted LSD outlawed (1966) Monty Python debuted on US television (PBS) Breakfast At Tiffany's premiered Pirate utopia "Libertaria" founded 1st Mennonite settlement in US established (Germantown, PA; 1683) Nickel plating patented 1st Turkish bath opened in US (1863) Jazz Singer, 1st "talkie," premiered (1927) 1st Chess tournament Mormons renounced polygamy American Library Association established (1876) Potassium discovered (1807) Battle of Yorktown ended 1st co-op store opened (Boston; 1845) To Die For premiered Columbus discovered Nicaragua Ether 1st demonstrated 1st US Train Robbery (1866) Mormons reluctantly renounced ploygamy (1890) French and British Troops captured Peking (1860) Chaing Kai-shek became President of China (1928) Monty Python's German episodes debuted Cadillac's front-drive Eldorado introduced (1966) Word "jazz" 1st used in print (1917) Anwar Sadat assassinated (1981) Byzantine Emperor Basil II conquered Bulgaria (1014) Cher's Half-Breed reached No. 1 (1973) William Tyndale burned at the stake for heresey (1536) Elizabeth Taylor married Larry Forensky (1991) US Submarine Sea Wolf set a record for 60-days submerged Davidson County, Tennessee founded (home of Nashville; 1783) |
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| 7 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Niels Bohr William Billings Caesar Rodney Thomas Wise Howard Chaykin John White Alexander Kenyon Cox Desmond Tutu Yo-Yo Ma June Allyson Sarah Churchill Andy Devine Jayne Torvill Thomas Keneally Imamu Amiri Baraka R.D. Laing Charles Dufoit John Cougar Mellencamp Alfred Drake Vaughn Monroe Martha Stewart Kevin Godley Al Martino Joe Hill Elijah Muhammed R.D. Laing Alfred Wallenstein James Whitcomb Riley Henry Wallace Kim Morris (Pb 3/86) Amiri Baraka Chuck Klein Jose Cardenal Erick Anderson Toni Braxton Heinrich Himmler Oliver North Judy Landers |
National Frappe Day Goose Fair opens (Nottinghamshire, UK) Victoria, Our Lady of Victories' Day (aka Pallas Athena) Festival of Food Pallas Athena (Old Roman Goddess of Triumph) Festival of the Deerk Toes (Fairy) Lepanto Day (Greece) Constitution Day (USSR) St. Justina's Day (patron of Padua, Venice) Deed of Cession Day (Fiji) Expulsion of Fascist Settlers Day (Libya) |
| October 7 Events | Carbon Paper patented American Bandstand debuted 1st Double-decker steamboat arrived in New Orleans Steve Hackett quit Genesis 1st Studio portrait photographed Edgar Allen Poe died 1st Infra-red photo taken Folding Machine patented Harvard Medical School opened (1783) 1st Pajama contest (NWU) Georgia Tech beats Cumberland 222-0 in Amer. Football Death Valley Days debuted (1952) 1st Greyhound race Battle of Saratoga George III closed US West to settlement (1763) 1st Railroad in US completed UK Newspaper "The Independent" 1st published (1986) Stamp Act passed by Congress 1st Airline, Holland's KLM, established (1919) Battle of King's Mountain (NC) Spartacus premiered Cats premiered on Broadway (1982) 1st Royal Broadcast on BBC (1922) Nuclear accident at Windscale atomic power station (UK; 1957) Alanis Morrisette's album Jagged Little Pill reached No. 1 (1995) US Granite industry began (1826) 1st Pictures of dark side of the Moon seen (1959) JFK signed nuclear test ban treaty with USSR and UK (1963) Charge of the Light Brigade premiered Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen married (1995) Janet Jackson's Miss You Much reached No. 1 (1989) Salon Exhibition criticized greatly leading to art style term "Fauvism" (Paris; 1905) Virginia's House of Burgess granted freedom to slaves who fought in Revolutionary War (1783) |
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| 8 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Eddie Rickenbacker Heinrich Schuetz Frank Herbert Chevy Chase Alfred Munnings Cesar Milstein Bill Hewitt Alfred Jarry Jesse Jackson Sigourney Weaver Clodagh Henri Le Chatelier Rona Barrett J. Frank Dureya Bill Hewitt David Carradine Brett Collins Mike Morgan Juan Peron Che Guevara Sarah Purcell Culpepper |
Fire Prevention Day American Tag Day Bearing of Green Branches (Ancient Athens) St. Thais' Day (patron of fallen women) Islamic New Year St. Pelagia's Day (patron of actresses) National Fluffernutter Day St. Bridget's Feast (Sweden) Thanksgiving (Canada) Simhat Torah World Lions Service Day Sergeant Alvin C. York Day Vanderbilt Cup Day St. Demetrius' Day (patron of Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia) Day of the Navy (Peru) St. Triduana's Day (patron against eye disease) |
| October 8 Events | 1st Airline movie shown Mrs. O'Leary's cow started Chicago Fire (1871) 1st Torpedo used in warfare Dow Jones began computing daily average (1897) US Navy WAVES established (1942) Ozzie and Harriet married (1935) Stage Door premiered Return of the Saint debuted 1st Automatic Pilot used I Love You Alice B. Toklas! premiered Def Leppard's Love Bites reached No. 1 (1988) French troops defeated the British at Ulm (1805) Ozzie and Harriet debuted on radio (1944) Wellington invaded Southern France (1813) Jerry Lee Lewis recorded Great Balls of Fire (1957) 1st Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race held (New York; 1904) UK's tallest building, the Post Office Tower, opened (1965) Beatles' Abbey Road reached No. 1 on the album charts (1969) Secret World of Alex Mack debuted (1994) Breathalyzer 1st used to test alcohol consumption on speeding motorist (1967) George M. Cohen's Little Johnny Jones premiered on Broadway (1904) Haitian despot Henri Christophe committed suicide (1820) 1st Legal Commercial Radio Station in UK went on the air (LBC; 1973) Four Aces' Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing reached No. 1 (1955) Green Bay Packer Paul Hornung scored a club record 33 points in one game (1961) Torrance family arrived at the summer resort to be caretakers for the winter (in Stephen King's The Shining) Sgt. York singlehandedly captured a hill, killing 20 and capturing 132, in the Argonne Forest (WW1; 1918) |
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| 9 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| John Lennon Shannon "Savannah" Wilsey Camille Saint-Saens Miguel de Cervantes Scott Bakula Nicholas Roerich Peter Tosh Frank Duveneck Emil Fischer Charles X Sean Ono Lennon Benjamin Banneker John Entwistle Martin Elmer Johnson Jacques Tati Bruce Catton Robert Finch Aimee Semple McPherson Russell Myers Joe Pepitone Alastair Sims Mike Singletary Jackson Browne Donald Sinden Piero Taruffi Mike Peters Steve Ovett Richard "Rube" Marquad Jose Sewell Trent Lott |
Magic Lantern Day Instant Karma Day Felicitas (Old Roman Goddess of Good Luck & Joy) Moldy Cheese Day Alphabet Day (Korea) Uganda Independance Day Leif Ericson Day (Iceland, NOrway, Wisconsin, Minnesota) Give Peace a Chance Day St. Demetrius' Day National Submarine-Grinder-Hoagie-Hero Day Curious Events Holiday (Fairy) St. Andronicus' Day (patron of silversmiths) World Post Day (UN) St. Denis' Day (patron of France; against frenzy, headaches) Feast of High Places Kite Flying Festival (China) National Coming Out Day St. Ghislain's Day (patron against twitching) Day of National Dignity (Peru) Season of Glass Anti-Columbus Day St. James the Less' Day (Eastern) Universal Postal Union Day St. Dionysius of Paris' Day (Protector from headaches & the devil) Hangul Nal Alphabet Day (Korea) St. John Leonardi's Day Chrysanthemum Festival (Japan) St. Louis Bertrand's Day (patron of Columbia) |
| October 9 Events | King Richard abandons the Crusades (1192) Oldest known fossils formed (Sagan calendar) Steam Calliope patented (1855) 1st 2-way phone conversation Elvis Presley divorced Priscilla (1973) Washington Monument opened Navigation Act passed (UK; 1651) Dumbarton Oaks Conference held Yale College founded (1701) Milton the Monster debuted 1st Shots fired at Yorktown (1781) Russians and Austrians pillaged Berlin (1760) Universal Postal Union established (1874) Casmir Pulaski killed at Battle of Savannah (1779) Earl of Warwick changed allegience to House of Lancaster (1470) 1st Underground Oil Pipeline completed (1865) Piggly Wiggly granted patent for self-service operation (1917) Nirvana's album In Utero reached No. 1 (1994) Ray Charles' Hit the Road Jack reached No. 1 (1961) James Watt resigned as US Secretary of the Interior (1983) Alexander Solzhenitsyn turned down Nobel Prize for Literature (1970) Thousands marched on Washington, DC for Lesbian and Gay Rights (1987) Overland Mail stage service began (1858) Dome of St. Paul's Cathedral pierced by Nazi bomb, leaving high altar in ruin (WW2; 1940) Kraft Foods made the world's largest grilled cheese sandwich (3,000 lbs.; 1996) Henry Sturmey became the 1st man to drive from Land's End, Cornwall to John O'Groats, Scotland (1897) |
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| 10 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Emily Dickinson Benjamin West Thelonius Monk Giuseppe Verdi Brett Favre Maurice Pendergast Antoine Watteau Fridtjof Nansen Harold Pinter Alberto Giacometti Martina Navratilova Adlai Stevenson Dorothy Lamour Helen Hayes James Clavell Ed Wood Jr. David Lee Roth Ben Vereen Paul Kruger Wilhelmina Holladay Tanya Tucker Henry Cavendish Charlie Brown Paul Kruger Gene Tenace |
Ganging Day Celebration of the Squeezed Nipple (Fairy) Kruger Day (South Africa) Double 10th Day Fiji Independence Day Photokina (Germany) Alex Kiui Day (aka Kivi Day; Finland) St. Victor's Day (patron of soldiers) Bonza Bottler Day Feast of Chains of Transmission St. Gereon's Day (patron against headaches) Health-Sports Day (Japan) St. Paulinus of York's Day National Angel Food Cake Day St. Francis Borgia's Day (patron of Portugal; against earthquakes) |
| October 10 Events | Potato Chips 1st made Tuxedo invented (1886) 1st Apples picked in the U.S. Stock Market Crash (1929) Plastics Industry began Boogie Nights premiered (1997) Chinese Revolution began with overthrow of Manchu Dynasty (1911) 1st Laundry detergent forsale Porgy and Bess premiered (1935) Mr. Magoo debuted US Naval Academy at Annapolis opened (1845) Catch-22 published Panama Canal completed (1913) Russia defeated Polish rebel army (1794) Vatican II Ecumenical Council held (1962) Spiro T. Agnew resigned as US Vice-President (1973) Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor remarried (in Botswana; 1975) Women's Social and Political Union formed (Manchester, UK; 1903) Ho Chi Minh returned to Hanoi after French Evacuation (1954) Worst-ever recorded Hurricane blew (Carribean; 1780) Puritan leader Cotton Mather received money from Elihu Yale to found Yale College (1718) Fish died according to Tombstone outside Disneyland's Haunted Mansion (1867) Members of various western indian tribes formed "First American Church" (1918) Whitesnake's Here I Go Again reached No. 1 (1987) Radiation Leak detected at Windscale atomic power station (1957) San Francisco 49ers played their 1st game at Candlestick Park (1971) Tail-less dress coat 1st worn at NYC's Tuxedo Club (1886) London Bridge reopened at Lake Havasu City (1971) Ghana's Finance Minister refused service in Delaware diner because he was black (1957) US President Woodrow Wilson pushed a red button in the oval office denoating explosives making final link in Panama Canal (1913) |
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| 11 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Fox Mulder Henry John Heinz Eleanor Roosevelt Art Blakey Roy Scheider George Ault Edwin Dickinson George Williams Harland Fiske Stone Jerome Robbins Friedrich Bergius Eleanor Roosevelt Willie Hoppe Gail Brown Ennio Morricone Luke Perry Parson Weems Joseph Alsop Roscoe Robinson Jr. George Preston Marshall Earl "Dutch" Clark Ron Leibman Daryl Hall Steve Young Robbie Conal Francois Mauriac Robert Gale Maria Bueno Dottie West Parson Weems General Twining Martin Bayless Patty Murray Greg Olson |
Feast of Real Family Values Vinalia (Roman Wine Festival) Pulaski Day National Bookkeeper's Day It's My Party Day St. Atticus' Day (Eastern) National Coming Out Day Cloud-Stamping Pentathalon (Fairy) St. Gomer's Day (patron of woodcutters, cowherds, & those unhappily married) National Gaelic Mod begins (Ft. William, Scotland) St. Bruno's Day (d.965) Festival of the Snow Geese International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction St. Nectarius' Day National Sausage Pizza Day St. James Grissinger's Day (patron of glass painters) |
| October 11 Events | Adding Machine patented (1887) Bugs Bunny debuted on TV Electric voting recorder patented, Edison's 1st (1868) 1st Meals served in flight (1919) Bureau of Surrealist Research founded (1924) Roll Film Cannister patented CBS received government approval to broadcast in color (1950) Gang of Four arrested in Berlin (1976) Daughters of the American Revolution founded Saturday Night Live debuted (1975) Oklahoma premiered McHale's Navy debuted (1962) Professor Quiz, 1st quiz show, debuted George II crowned King of England (1727) 1st Woman walked in space (1984) Apollo 7 launched (1968) Chicago Fire finally put out (1871) 1st US Calvary, First US Dragoons, assembled (1833) Neil Sedaka's Bad Blood reached No. 1 (1975) 1st Myst date needed to raise the ship (1984) Cosmonauts of Salyut 6 returned to earth after over 6 months in orbit (19800 Largest Pizza made (100 feet, 1 inch diameter; 94,248 slices; 1987) 1st Norman Rockwell portrait of a US President on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post (Eisenhower; 1952) San Francisco ordered Oriental children segregated in schools until pressured by US President Roosevelt to rescind (1906) |
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| 12 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Sappho Aleister Crowley Ralph Vaughn-Williams Winona Ryder Matsuo Basho Jonathan Trumbell Elmer Sperry Gene Vincent Ramsey McDonald Charles Loring Elliot Dick Gregory Luciano Pavarotti Tony Kubeck Neriah Davis (Pb 3/94) Theodore Earl Butler Kirk Cameron Susan Anton John Engler Adam Rich Helena Modjeska Charles Gordone Tony Kubek Jasroslav Drobny Sam Moore Jean Nidtech Chris Chandler Michael Zordich George Washington Cable Rick Ferrell Joe Cronin Edward VI Pedro I |
Columbus Day Fortuna Redux (Old Roman Goddess of Successful Journeys & Safe Returns) Dia De La Raza (Latin America) Farmer's Day (Florida) International Moment of Frustration Fraternal Day Global Scream Day (30-second scream at 1200 hours GMT) Equitorial Guinea Independence Day Family Harvest Festival (Nigeria) International Newspaper Carrier Day Farmer's Day (Florida) National Bookkeeper's Day Hispanity Day (Spain) St. Wilfrid of York's Day Imamat Day (Muslim) Runic half-month of Gyfu ends Somalia Independence Day Fireant Festival (Marshall, Texas) Last Pilgrimage to Fatima (Portugal) |
| October 12 Events | Medal of Honor 1st given to a conscientious
objector 1st Iron Lung used (1928) Indians discover Columbus lost on the shore on San Salvador (1492) 1st secular song published (Three Blind Mice; 1609) Basho died (1694) 2nd Boer War officially began (1899) White House cornerstone laid (1792) Conan comic book #1 published Battle of Orleans (100 Years War; 1428) Nurse Cavell shot by Germans (1915) Robert E. Lee died (1870) Ian Fleming died (1964) Andy Warhol set sail on an episode of The Love Boat (1985) Construction began on Holland Tunnel (1920) Hitler banned American Jazz from German radio (1935) "Executive Manion" renamed "The White House" (1901) Swanky Mode's appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show (1970: Tapeheads) 1st US Memorial to Columbus dedicated (Baltimore; 1792) Sid Vicious killed girlfriend Nancy Spungen (1978) Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight debuted on Playhouse 90 (1956) Publick House for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds, 1st Asylum, opened Nikita Khruschev banged his shoe on a table in UN General Assembly (1960) Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs' Sugar Shack reached No. 1 (1963) |
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| 13 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Lenny Bruce Dr. Beverly Crusher (2324) Molly Pitcher Jerry Rice Cornell Wilde Rudolf Virchow Conrad Richter Art Tatum Burr Tilstrom Robert Lamm Sammy Hagar Laraine Day Herbert L. Block Jesse Leroy Brown Yves Montad Lilly Langtry Paul Simon Doc Rivers Reggie Theus Marie Osmond George "Rube" Waddell Nipsey Russell Rich Kotie Eddie Matthews Margaret Thatcher |
Fontinalia (Old Roman Winter Festival) Modern Mythology Day Floating of the Lamps (Thailand) St. Edward the Confessor's Day Runic half-month of Wyn (joy) begins International Newspaper Carrier's Day National Peanut Festival Festival of Unmediated Play National Yorkshire Pudding Day Pumpkin Festival St. Colman's Day (patron of Austria, cattle, hanged men, horses) |
| October 13 Events | Zinc discovered Inherit the Wind premiered 1st Aerial Photos of U.S. U.S. Navy established (1775) Shroud of Turin declared a fake (1988) B'nai B'rith founded (1843) George Washington laid the cornerstone for the White House Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? premiered 1st Beatlemania riots Strange Days premiered (1995) Around the World in 80 Days premiered (1956) Greenwich, England accepted as Universal meridian (1884) Henry IV, 1st King from House of Lancaster, coronated (1399) General Motors 1st exhibited a solar-powered motor (1951) Boston beats Pittsburgh in 1st World Series of baseball (1903) Future Queen Elizabeth II made her 1st radio broadcast at 14 (1940) Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams published (1904) Scott Weiland completed the Detoit Marathon backwards (4 hrs, 7 min, 54 sec; 1982) Roman Emperor Claudius I died from poison mushrooms cooked by his wife (54 CE) Stevie Wonder's I Just Called to Say I Love You reached No. 1 (1984) Beat the Clock debuted Hitler tried unsuccessfully to persuade FDR to mediate peace between Germany, France, and Britain (1939) |
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| 14 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| William Penn e.e. cummings Roger Moore Dwight D. Eisenhower Harry Anderson James II Daniel Huntington Cliff Richard Adolphe Monticelli Ralph Lauren Lillian Gish Hannah Arendt George Grenville Francis Lightfoot Lee Joseph Duveen Gary Graffman Nikolai Adrianov Katherine Mansfield Greg Evigan John Dean Eamon de Valera Oscar Charleston Al Oliver Keith Byers Jerry Glanville Willie Aikens Grover (Sesame Street) |
Discoverer's Day (Hawaii) Winter's Day Be Bald and Be Free Day Peace Corps Day Founder's Day (Zaire) Yemen National Day National Frump Day Vinternatsblot Dessert Day Quarrel Festival (Japan) Columbus Day (Belize) First Fiddle of the Month (Fairy) Taoist Kusu Island Pilgrimage begins (Singapore) Blessing the Fish Harvest (Yorkshire, UK) St. Callistus I's Day National Chocolate Covered Insect Day St. Cosmas Melodus' Day (Eastern) Mega Kenka Matsui (Roughhouse Festival; Japan) |
| October 14 Events | Winnie-the-Pooh published (1926) Battle of Hastings (1066) 1st 50p coin minted Peace Corp 1st proposed (by JFK) March of Time debuted on radio 1st Newspaper ad appeared Society of United Irishmen founded (1791) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying premiered Coca-Cola's "It's the Real Thing" ad campaign launched (1969) 1st Televised wedding Tet Pilot Chuck Yeager flew the 1st plane to exceed the sound barrier (1947) Castaways finally rescused from Gilligan's Island (1978) All About Eve premiered 1st Musical Comedy performed (London; 1893) Oldsmobile Toronado introduced (1965) 810 died as HMS Royal Oak sunk by Nazis (1939) Everly Brothers' Wake Up Little Susie reached No. 1 (1957) Clampett's bought a film studio (on the Beverly Hillbillies; 1964) Direct Action blew up Litton Systems plant, Toronto, Canada (1982) Egypt and Syria invaded Israel on Yom Kippur (1973) |
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| 15 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Friedrich Nietzsche Mantua Virgil (70 BCE) P.G. Wodehouse Michel Foucault James Jacques Tissot Mario Puzo Ralph Blakelock John Kenneth Galbraith Evangelista Forricelli Penny Marshall Italo Calvino Jim Palmer Sarah Ferguson Renee Summers Mervyn LeRoy John L. Sullivan Devon Gummersall Lee Iacocca Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Joseph Miguel Carrera Roscoe Tanner Jean Peters Akba Mark Leonard Sarah Ferguson Barry McGuire C.P. Snow Kristine Winder (Pb 10/77) Trace Armstrong Richard Carpenter Marty Mann Joe Klecko Linda Lavin Ned Ray McWherter Mel Harder Tito Jackson |
World Poetry Day Parade of Giants & Dwarves (Spain) Driving Day Mertz of All Possible Mertzes St. Teresa of Avila's Day (patron of Spain, lace makers; against headaches, heart attacks) National Grouch Day Rainbow Pickling Day (Fairy) White Cane Safety Day National Shut-In Visitation Day St. Andeol's Day (patron of Switzerland) World Food Day Evacuation Day (Tunisia) National Roast Pheasant Day Ether Day World Food Day St. Lucian of Antioch's Day (Eastern) |
| October 15 Events | Debussy's La Mer premiered Phrase "Flower Power" 1st used Mata Hari executed for spying (1917) Untouchables debuted (1959) 1st Vietnam protest demonstration (1965) Pope Gregory XIII decreed 10 days would be dropped from calendar (1582) Central American Federation won its independence from Spain (1821) Little Nemo in Slumberland comic strip began (1905) Henry VIII had Gooseberries planted in his garden US Department of Transportation established I Love Lucy debuted (1951) R.E.M.'s album Monster reached No. 1 (1994) Clarence Thomas barely appointed to US Supreme Court (1991) Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life reached No. 1 (1977) UB40's Red Red Wine reached No. 1 (1988) Nazi Hermann Goering committed suicide (1946) Cellini got away with murder because Pope Paul liked his art work (1534) Graf Zeppelin completed its 1st transatlantic voyage (1928) Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur 1st met (1950) Charles V promoted Cortes to governor general of Mexico (1522) UK's Public Morals Committee attacked use of condoms because it produces "poor hereditary stock" (1927) |
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| 16 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Eugene O'Neil Bob Mould Oscar Wilde Noah Webster Tim Robbins Gunther Grass Arnold Bocklin Bob Weir Albrecht von Haller David Ben-Gurion Laurel Canyon Michael Conrad Bert Kaempfert Melissa Belote Flea Martha Smith (7/73) Angela Lansbury Leo Carroll Nicholas Culpepper Leon "Goose" Goslin Manute Bol Paul Strand William O. Douglas Fannie Lou Hamer Linda Darnell Suzanne Sommers Lynn Cain Chris Doleman Alfonso de Portago Kevin McReynolds |
World Food Day (UN) Dictionary Day National Boss Day St. Gall's Day (patron of birds, Switzerland) International Credit Union Day St. Hedwig's Day (patron of Bavaria, Silesia) Maintenance Personnel Day Sukkoth St. Lullus' Day National Liqueur Day St. Gerard Majella's Day (patron of childbirth, mothers) St. Margaret Mary Alacoque's Day (patron against polio) |
| October 16 Events | Marie Antoinette lost her head (1793) US Mint at Philadelphia established 1st Correspondence School opens Raid on Harper's Ferry (1859) 1st Birth Control Clinic opened (1916) Zorro debuted GOES I launched into orbit (1975) 1st modern Hotel opened (Tremont; 170 rooms with baths; Boston; 1829) Disney Studio established Yale founded (1701) Napoleon exiled to St. Helena (1815) 1st Anesthetized operation (1846) Boromir reaches Rivendell (Hobbit) Lion Sermon 1st given (1647) Mao-Tse Tung began China's Long March (1934) British New Guinea became part of Australia (1906) China exploded its 1st atomic bomb (1964) Rick Dees' Disco Duck reached No. 1 (1976) Creedence Cleawater Revival disbanded (1972) 1st Appearance of the Rhino in Spiderman comics US Deportation Act for alien anarchists passed (1919) Massacre at Luby's Cafeteria (Killeen, Texas; 1991) Ether 1st used in a capital operation (1846) Houses of Parliament burned (UK; 1834) Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN established (1945) International Trade in Endangered Species voted 76-11 to ban ivory trade (1989) Prime Minister Thatcher scrapped Independent Broadcasting Authority because they refused to stop the airing of a controversial documentary which showed her in a bad light (1991) |
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| 17 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Rita Hayworth Arthur Miller J.L. Kraft Childe Hassam Montgomery Clift Evel Knievel Jean Arthur George Wendt Jupiter Hammon Isak Dinesen Michael McKean Doris Humphrey Nathaniel West Tom Poston Julie Adams Marsha Hunt Jimmy Breslin Gary Puckett Beverly GarlandIsak Dinesen Pope John Paul I Gig Gangel (Pb 1/80) Steve Doulas McMichel Virgil Partch Margot Kidder James "Junior" Gilliam Don Coryell Alfred Pupunu John Wilkes Don Pasqua Barbara Hummel ("his wife" 1946; according to 1997 film The Rock) |
Sweetest Day Black Poetry Day St. Ethelred's Day Festival of Hengest (St. Ives, UK; trinket jewelry festival) Battle Flag Day St. Audrey's Day Fair (original tawdry fair; Isle of Ely, UK) Kanname-Sai Harvest Festival (Japan) Gaudy Day National Pasta Day St. Victor's Day Dessalines Day (Haiti) Four Prunes Day St. Ignatius of Antioch's Day Big Yellow Hat Day Large Fairies Come First Day (Fairy) International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (UN) St. John the Dwarf's Day |
| October 17 Events | 1st Oktoberfest celebrated Mason-Dixon line established Hype Park Corner Underpass opens 1st Bridge built using different color bricks Bella Duck splits leaving Donald with Huey, Dewie & Louie Loma Prieta earthquake (Northern California; 1989) 1st Cross-Country Run Albert Einstein arrives in US after fleeing Nazi Germany (1933) J.S. Bach married Council of Elrond (Hobbit) Hollywood Squares debuted Beethoven's 10th Symphony premiered (1988) Manfred Mann's Do Wah Diddy reached No. 1 (1964) Al Capone sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion (1931) 1st Nuclear Power Station in UK opened (1956) Jackson 5's I'll Be There reached No. 1 (1970) Perry Mason lost his 1st & only case to Hamilton Burger (1963) Sylvain Saudan made steepest ski run in alps (60%; 1967) American John Reed died and buried in the Kremlin Wall (1920) Charles II fled to France after his defeat by Oliver Cromwell (1651) Haitian tyrant Jacques I assassinated (1806) Vanilla Ice's To the Extreme became 1st album released on only CD and cassette (1990) OPEC anounced 70% oil price increase because US supported Israel in Yom Kippur War (1973) |
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| 18 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| D.T. Suzuki George C. Scott Hans Holbein the Younger James David Brooks Canaletto Evelyn Waugh Ntozake Shange Salomon Auguste Andree Chuck Berry Pierre Trudeau Henri Bergson Inger Stevens Peter Boyle Forrest Gregg Avis Kimble (Pb 11/62) Wynton Marsalis Melina Mercouri Pierre de Lacios Mike Ditka Emily Arth (Pb 6/88) Alfred Binet Wendy Wasserstein Pam Dawber Ntozake Shange John Johnson A.J. Liebling Keith Jackson Richard Stankiewicz Cyrus Reed Teed (aka Prophet Koresh) Laura Nyro Erin Moran George Hendrick Tommy Hearns Andy Carey Michael Archer (1986; in Face/Off) Gary Richrath Jesse Helms |
Persons Day (Canada) St. Luke's Day (patron of doctors, painters, glassmakers, artists, butchers, notaries, sculptors) Festival of Poetic Terrorism Alaska Day Pandrosos (Greek all-refreshing Goddess) Nike Awareness Day Great Horn Fair (Kent, UK) National Chocolate Cupcake Day Chile Independence Day No Beard Day Lukesmas King Look Under Your Mattress's Unique Hiding Display (Fairy) International Credit Union Day |
| October 18 Events | Ivory Soap invented 1st Art school opened Sandblasting patented BBC Radio established (1922) 1st Underwater Telegraph cable laid (NY Harbor; 1842) H.E.W. banned cyclamates Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth founded (1895) Puerto Rico became US Colony (1898) Lincoln shaved off his beard Hi and Lois comic strip began (1954) Water Pollution Control Act passed (1972) XYZ Affair Citroen 2CV automobile introduced (1948) Roseanne debuted (1988) 1st War Crimes trial began (1945) Disney's Jungle Book premiered (1967) John Lennon and Yoko Ono arrested for marijuana possession (London; 1968) Rules of American Football 1st formulated (1873) US attacked Iranian oil rig in retaliation for gunboat attacks (1987) International Court of Justice at the Hague announced (1907) UK declared Canadian women to be "persons" (1929) 1st Nike Awareness Day observed (started by Kim Doonesbury, in comic strip Doonesbury) Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes forcing many protestants (aka Huguenots) to flee France (1685) Teddy Roosevelt is ridiculed in the press for inviting black leader Booker T. Washington to the White House (1901) |
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| 19 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Peter Max Umberto Boccioni Jack Anderson Alfred Dreyfus John LeCarre Robert Beatty Tor Johnson John Lithgow William Burns Thomas Browne Auguste Lumiere Martha Jefferson Robert Reed Lewis Mumford Anna Clarke (Pb 4/87) Miguel Angel Asturais Walter Cannon Amy Carter John McLoughlin Arleigh Burke Woody (Madness) Patricia Ireland Bradley Lee Daugherty Anne S. Peck Jim Dombrowski Webster Slaughter Bern Bennett Tim Belcher La Wanda Page Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown Evander Holyfield |
Evaluate Your Life Day Feast of the Wicked Scam National Seafood Bisque Day St. Peter of Alcantara's Day (patron of Brazil, watchmen) Anniversary Day Bob Evans Farm Festival Potato Festival Birth of Bab (Baha'i) Change Your Life Day St. John de Breboeuff and Issac Jogues and companions' Day Feast of St. Paul of the Cross Sweetest Day Jesuit Martyrs Day (Canada) Seek the King Week begins (Fairy) Bettara-Ichi (Pickle Market Fair; Japan) St. Rene Goupil's Day (patron of anesthesiologists) |
| October 19 Events | Army shoulder patches established George Washington made 5-star general 1st Air warfare "Black Monday" worldwide stock market crash (1987) Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown (1781) West Side Story premiered San Jose Sharks play their 1st game Washington Monument cornerstone laid Battle of Yorktown ended (1781) Marlon Brando debuted on Broadway (1944) N.C. Wyeth died in automobile accident (1945) A-Ha's Take on Me reached No. 1 (1985) Napoleon began retreating from Moscow (1812) Star Spangled Banner 1st sung (1814) 1st company to manufacture internal combuction engines formed (1860) Newspapermen's round-the-world airplane race ended (1936) De Lorean car plant in Belfast, Northern Ireland closed (1982) Monty Python's 3rd season debuted in U.K. Billy Preston's Nothing from Nothing reached No. 1 (1974) Martin Luther King Jr. and 52 others arrested in sit-down demonstration (Atlanta, Georgia; 1960) 11-year old Grace Bedell wrote President Lincoln, asking him to grow a beard (1860) |
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| 20 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Charles Ives Ellery Queen Christopher Wren Siyyid Ali "the Bab" Muhammad James Chadwick Bela Lugosi Jerry Orbach Mickey Mantle William Christopher John Reed Tom Petty John Dewey Will Rogers James Mann Anna Neagle Juan Marichal Keith Hernandez Thomas Hughes June Blair (Pb 1/57) Herschel Bernardi Arlene Francis Roosevelt Brown Margaret Dumont Joyce Brothers Art Buchwald Jerry Orbach Arthur Rimbaud William "Judy" Johnson David Krieg |
Feast Of No Excuse For A Feast Season of the Aftermath begins (Discordian) New York Times Day Revolution Day (Guatemala) National Brandied Fruit Day Kenyatta Day (Kenya) Change Your Oil Day Apple Butter Stirrin' Festival St. Conrad Ferrini's Day (patron of universities) International Juan Valdez Appreciation Day |
| October 20 Events | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington premiered Radio tube invented 1st Life saved with a parachute P.T. Barnum's Circus opened "The Greatest Show on Earth" at the Hippodrome (1873) Battle of Salamis (480 BCE) Mr. Smith Goes To Washington premiered London's Sunday Times 1st published (1822) Rubber Band invented Babes in Arms premiered 1st Community hospital established Battle of Ulm Pegaso Z-102 automobile introduced (1950) Jesus Christ Superstar premiered Moscow Soccer tragedy killed 340 (1982) UN War Crimes Commission established (1943) German city of Aachen taken by US 1st Army (WW2; 1944) UK and US established American border at 49th Parallel (1818) Momma comic strip began (1970) Prime Minister Maurice Bishop assassinated in Grenada (1983) General MacArthur returned to the Philippines (1944) Trial over Lady Chatterly's Lover begain in London (1960) Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned in connection with Watergate (1973) Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashed, killing 3 band members (flames on cover of then-current album are quickly removed; 1977) US House Un-American Activities Committee began harrassing entertainment industry (1947) Boris Pucket & The Crypt-Kickers' Monster Mash reached No. 1 (1962) |
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| 21 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Alfred B. Nobel Whitey Ford George Solti Pretty Boy Floyd Dizzy Gillespie Ursula K. LeGuin Karl Knaths Will Carleton Samuel Taylor Coleridge Georg Stahl Lee Loughnane Steve Cropper Carrie Fisher Katsushka Hokusai Georgia Brown Malcolm Arnold Charlotte Caffey Manfred Mann Geoffrey Boycott Caroline Fillmore Jade Jagger Elvin Bishop Frances Fitzgerald Mo Lewis George Bell |
Make a Difference Day Trafalgar Day Babbling Day Festival of Parlor Shamanism St. Ursula's Day (patron of teachers, schoolgirls, orphans, tailors, universities; against the plague) Costa Rica Independance Day National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day Compact Day (Marshall Islands) Malagasy Independance Day Lancing Tournament National Shut-In Day Overseas Chinese Day(Taiwan) National Day (Somalia) Army Day (Honduras) St. Hilarion's Day Overseas Chinese Day (Taiwan) St. John of Bridlington's Day (patron against complications in childbirth) |
| October 21 Events | 1st Planetarium opened (Munich; 1923) Lightbulb invented (1879) 1st Bomber flew Strait of Magellan discovered 1st Tattooed man appeared Honda sold its 1st car (1963) Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld premiered (1858) 1st British nuclear submarine launched Battle of Trafalgar (1805) Louis XIV returned to Paris (1652) Martial Law imposed in France (1789) 1st Pears in syrup served (at Henry IV's wedding) John Cleese appeared on the Muppet Show Sydney Opera House opened (1973) TV Version of Casino Royale debuted Elvis Presley's Jailhouse Rock reached No. 1 (1957) 1st Electric Plane flew (1973) My Fair Lady premiered (1964) Angel On My Shoulder premiered Battle of Antioch (1st Crusade; 1097) Hairbreadth Harry comic strip began (1906) Guggenheim Art Museum opened in NYC (1959) Chuck Berry's My Ding-a-Ling reached No. 1 (1972) Yippies exorcised evil spirits from the Pentagon, causing it to visibly levitate (1967) |
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| 22 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| N.C. Wyeth Franz Liszt Timothy Leary Le Corbusier Doris Lessing Jimmy Foxx Sarah Bernhardt Cherrie Whitter (Pb 2/85) Robert Rauschenberg Edmund Dulac George Beadle Joan Fontaine Constance Bennett Layla Harvest Roberts (Pb 10/97) Jean Grolier Bobby Seale John Reed Grizzly Adams Catherine Deneuve Brian Boitano Jeff Goldblum Annette Funicello Christopher Lloyd Robert Rauschenberg Curly Howard Derek Jacobi Joe Carr Pete Pihos Eddie Brigati Wilbur Wood Christopher Lloyd John Chafee Rowland Emett Tony Roberts |
National Nut Day Festival of Eras (Jidalmatsuri, Japan) World's End Day (Millerism) Jidai Matsuri (Festival of the Eras; Kyoto, Japan) Festival of the House of Mercy National Barber's Day St. Mary Salome's Day Holy See (Vatican City) Chung Yeung (Hong Kong) St. Donatus' Day Libra zodiac sign ends St. Abercius' Day |
| October 22 Events | Worldwide flu epidemic (1918; 20 million died) 1st US planes used in war Jackie Robinson became 1st black major league baseball player Barber's Association of America established 1st Streamlined Pullman train used Cuban Missile Crisis began (1962) Boston Symphony gave their 1st performance (1881) Princeton University chartered (1746) 1st Xerox image produced (1938) Gopher trap patented Terry & the Pirates comic strip began (1934) 1st Parachute jump (1797) San Houston sworn in as 1st President of Republic of Texas (1836) Metropolitan Opera House opened Break the Bank debuted (1948) 1st Woman flew a solo flight (1909) Trans-Australian Railway opened (1917) Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen found guilty of murdering his wife (1910) Nelson Mandela's treason trial began (1962) Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas premiered (1993) KGB spy George Blake escaped from maximum security prison in London (1966) Phil Collins' Groovy Kind of Live reached No. 1 (1988) William Miller predicted the world would end on this day in 1844 Deer Hunter discovered unmanned plane crashed in tree after pilot crank-started it and it had taken off without the pilot 65 miles away (1987) |
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| 23 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Pele Michael Crichton Pierre Larousse Robert Bridges "Weird Al" Yankovic Johnny Carson Lawren Harris Jean-Louis Forain William Coolidge Gertrude Ederle Nikki Charm Diana Dors Adlai Stevenson Nicolas Apert Louis Riel Felix Bloch Ned Rorem James Daly Katherine Hushaw (Pb 10/86) Rama V (1868) Louann Fernald (Pb 6/79) Frank "Bruiser" Kinard Jim Bunning Mike Tomczak Doug Flutie Brent Williams Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodriguez Doug Flutie Al Jolson |
Feast of Fools Canning Day Festival of Forgotten Gods Swallows leave Capistrano National Boston Cream Pie Day Chulalongkorn Day (Thailand) National Mole Day St. James' Day Finding of the King Jubilation (Fairy) Hungarian Revolution Day St. John of Capistrano's Day (patron of military chaplains) TV Talk Show Host Day Scorpio zodiac sign begins |
| October 23 Events | Planet Earth created (9:00 a.m.) 1st National Horseshoe Tournament held Taming of the Shrew premiered 1st Shot fired in WW II Flying Tigers premiered Leon Trotsky expelled from Communist Party (1926) 1st National Women's Rights Convention (1850) Disney's Dumbo premiered (1941) 1st Old age home Metropolitan Opera House opened (1883) 1st Plastic surgery operation performed Videotape 1st aired on TV (Jonathan Winters Show; 1956) Terrorists attacked US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon killing 240 (1983) 1st National US radio broadcast (1924) Dion's Runaround Su reached No. 1 (1961) Battle of El Alamein began (WW2; 1942) 1st Reconnaisance flight (WW I) Coup d'etat attempted against Napoleon (1812) UK Courts finally ruled wives have right to say "no" (1991) Russian tanks called in to Hungarian Revolution (1956) World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois opened (1892) Charles I's Cavaliers clashed with Cromwell's Roundheads at Battle of Edgehill (1642) 25,000 women march in NYC for right to vote (1915) Chicago's If You Leave Me Now reached No. 1 (1976) 62 members of Lebanese parliament signed agreement to share equally power between Muslims & Christians (1989) UK, UK, USSR, and France agree to end German occupation and allow West Germay to join NATO (1954) |
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| 24 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Kevin Kline Dr. Bones McCoy Sarah J.B. Hale Big Bopper Moss Hart Denise Levertov Mainbocher Bill Wyman Y.A. Tittle Lt. Uhuru F. Murray Abraham Anton Von Leeunanhoek Hendrik Roozeboom Craig Russell Abu Nuwas Morena Corwin (Pb 9/92) Luciano Berio Belva Lockwood Patrick Hunter James Sherman Omar Moreno Sybil Thorndike Tito Gobbi David Nelson |
Feast of Good & Plenty United Nations Day Maladay (aka Elder Malaclypse's Day; Discordian) Zambia Independance Day Pennsylvania Day National Bologna Day St. Raphael the Archangel's Day (patron of health inspectors, druggists, happy meetings, leaving home, travellers; against blindness) Suez Day (Egypt) World Development Information Day (UN) St. Anthony Claret's Day (patron of weavers, savings banks) |
| October 24 Events | United Nations established (1945) 1st Weekly magazine published Friction matches patented 1st Telegran sent across the US (1861) Last ride of the Pony Express (1861) 40 hour work week established in US (1940) 1st Person survived going over Niagra Falls in a barrel (1901) Rev. Jim Bakker sentenced to 45 years for swindling his followers (1989) 1st Soccer club established Seth Thomas alarm clock patented George Washington Bridge opened (NYC; 1931) 1st Comic strip appeared Battle of Tours (732 CE) Kojak debuted (1973) Robert Motherwell's 1st one-man exhibit opened (1944) Brenda Lee's I Want To Be Wanted reached No. 1 (1960) Horn of the Mark blown in the Shire (The Hobbit) Al Capone sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion (1931) James Brown recorded Live at the Apollo (1962) Treaty of Westphalia signed, ending 30 Years' War (1648) Norwegian traitor Vidkun Quisling executed (1945) US Bureau of Facts and Figures established (1941) Anna Edson Taylor went over Niagra Falls in a barrel (1901) Michael Jackson's Bad reached No. 1 (1987) |
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| 25 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Pablo Picasso Johann Strauss Anne Tyler Geoffery Chaucer Jon Anderson Georges Bizet Richard E. Byrd Baron Grenville Adam Goldberg Thomas Babbington Macauly Henry Norris Russell Arshile Gorky Brian Kerwin Helen Reddy Michael Douglas Eduardo Barrios Max Stiner Whit Bissell Bob Knight Tony Franciosa Marion Ross Anthony Johnson Bobby Thompson Hanna Gray Minnie Pearl Lord Macaulay Eddie Lang Billy Barty |
Cartoonists Against Crime Day St. Crispin's Day (patron of shoemakers, glovemakers, weavers) Ugly Pickup Truck & Ugly Pickup Queen Contest (Chadron, Nebraska) St. Crispinianus's Day (Crispin's twin) Dioscuri (Shoemaker's Day) Punk-For-A-Day Day Thanksgiving (Virgin Islands) National Greasy Foods Day Sourest Day Munzipan Feast (Fairy) Retrocession Day (Taiwan) St. Gaudentius' Day Halloween Holiday (Ireland) Feast of Forty Martyrs of England and Wales |
| October 25 Events | Charge of the Light Brigade (1854) Weber's Euryanthe premiered 1st Trademark patented Picasso's Guernica unveiled Erie Canal opened (1825) Private Eye 1st published (1961) Battle of Agincourt (100 Years War; 1415) Teapot Dome scandal unfolded (1923) George Washington Bridge opened (NYC) 1st Railroad timetable published (1839) Airbrush patented US invaded Grenada (1983) Communist China invaded Tibet (1950) UK's National Theatre on London's South Bank opened (1976) Taiwan expelled from UN to allow Communist China to join (1971) 1st Female FBI agents completed training (1972) October Revolution began (Russia) Chuckles bit the dust (Mary Tyler Moore Show; 1975) Taiwan returned to Chinese rule (1945) Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street published Cyndi Lauper's True Colors reached No. 1 (1986) Three-Diode Amplification Diode patented (1906) Susan Smith's children reported kidnapped (Union City, SC; 1994) Chuckles the Clown killed dressed in a peanut suit (on the Mary Tyler Moore Show; 1975) Professor Sean Maguire met his future wife, missing the 6th game of the World Series (1975; in film Good Will Hunting) Bufano Statue erected in Cathedral Grove of Muir Woods to honor the UN (1969) Charles V, King of Spain & Holy Roman Emperor, retired to Spanish Monastery (1556) |
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| 26 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Martin Heidegger Bob Hoskins Hippocrates (460 BCE) Georges Danton Desiderius Erasmus Natalie Merchant C.W. Post Philip Evergood Felix the Cat Domenico Scarlatti Joseph Hansom Ralph Bakshi Francois Mitterrand Pat Sajak John Arden Aphra Behn Jackie Coogan Mahalia Jackson Jaclyn Smith Hilary Rodham Clinton Charles Sprague Suzy Parker Abby Rockefeller Jason Grode Chuck Forman Sid Gilman Bob Golic Steve Rogers Leon Trotsky Bootsy Collins |
Top-Spinning Ceremony (Siam) National Mincemeat Pie Day International Red Cross Day St. Demetrius' Day (Eastern) Norway Independence Day French Food Festival Horseless Carriage Day Mule Day Flag Day (Austria) Toping Wagglegammon (Fairy) Pumpkin Day Exaltation of the Shellfish (Pontevedra, Spain) St. Bonaventura of Potenza's Day (patron against disease of the bowels) |
| October 26 Events | Doonesbury comic strip began (1970) 1st Pineapple grown in U.K. harvested Beatles receive MBE (1965) Village Voice 1st published (1955) 1st Homemakers conference Erie canal opened (1825) Victor Emmanuel declared King of Italy (1860) 1st Mules imported to US (1785) Rotary motion washing machine patented St. Elsewhere debuted (1982) Camelot premiered Royal Marines established (UK) Victory at Sea debuted George III crowned King of England (1760) Minutemen established Gunfight at the OK Corral fought (1881) Pan Am offered the 1st US jetliner service (1958) Baboon's heart transplanted into 2-week-old human Baby Fae (1984) UN International Atomic Energy Agency established (1956) Whitney Houston's Saving All My Love For You reached No. 1 (1985) Jeffrey Archer resigned as deputy chairman of UK Conservative Party after allegations that he paid a prostitute to leave the country (1986) Pan American Boeing 707 jets & BOAC Comet airliners began regular transatlantic service (1958) US President Nixon prepared to enter World War III after learning that USSR was sending arms to Middle East War (1973) Montreal DJ pretending to be the Canadian Prime Minister, spoke to Queen Elizabeth II for 17 minutes (1995) |
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| 27 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| John Cleese Roy Lichtenstein Kata Karkkainen (Pb 12/88) Scott Weiland Veronica Hart Dylan Thomas James Cook Walt Kuhn Theodore Roosevelt Niccolo Paganini Sylvia Plath Leif Ericson Enid Bagnold Jane Alexander Emily Post Captain James Cook Frederick De Cordova Carrie Snodgrass Nanette Fabray Teresa Wright Ralph Kiner Bill George Oliver Tambo Floyd Cramer H.R. Haldeman Freddie DeCordova Ruby Dee Warren Christopher Matt Cavanaugh Simon Le Bon |
National Potato Day American Beer Day Celtic tree month of Gort ends Feast of the Lord of Misrule Good Bear Day Navy Day Angam Day (Nauru) Big Bang Day Day of Peace St. Vincent Independence Day Naming Day (Zaire) Tunch Paddling Festival (Fairy) Runic half-month of Wyn ends Crack-nut Night (aka Nut-Crack Night) Turkmenistan Independence Day St. Frumentius' Day (patron of Ethiopia) National Day (Grenadines) Swamp Buggy Race Day |
| October 27 Events | City of Philadelphia founded (1762) Treaty of Fontainebleau signed Walt Disney debuted on TV Largest tuna caught (1496 lbs.) Oil discovered in US (Titusville, PA) NYC Subway opened (1904) Baby carriage patented Term "jazz" 1st used in print (1916) 1st Federalist Paper published (1787) Rebel Without a Cause premiered Ivan the Great died (1505) Apollo 12 landed on the moon Macys opened 1st Quakers hanged (Boston; 1659) The Mouse That Roared premiered Congo changed its name to Zaire (1971) French invaded Austrian Netherlands (1792) UK Parliament agreed to apply to join EEC (1971) Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall arrested for fraud (NYC; 1871) Golden Gate National Recreational Area established (1972) Michael Servetus burned at the stake for blasphemy (1553) Charles II of England sold Dunkirk to Louis XIV for 2.5 million livres (1662) UK annexed Griqualand, South Africa, a diamond producing region (1871) Gladys Knight & the Pips' Midnight Train to Georgia reached No. 1 (1973) |
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| 28 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Francis Bacon Jonas Salk Evelyn Waugh Desiderius Erasmus Julia Roberts Richard Doll Annie Potts Charlie Daniels Edith Head Veronica Gamba (Pb 11/83) Joan Plowright Howard Hanson Georges Escoffier Bruce Jenner Jane Alexander Elsa Lanchester Henry III (1017) Pan Dawber Robert Liston Auguste Escoffier Jami Gertz Bowie Kuhn Dennis Franz Thelma Hopkins Anna Elizabeth Dickinson Benjamin Paul Blood Joe Page Wayne Fontana Cleo Laine Steve Atwater Dody Goodman |
Time Day National Chocolate Day St. Simon's Day Fyribod (or Forebode) National Holiday (Hungary) Folly Day Runic half-month of Hagal (constraint) begins Ohi Day (Greece) Wild Foods Day Czechoslovakia Independence Day St. Firmilian's Day (Eastern) Celtic tree month of Ngetal (Reed) begins Nationalist China Independance Day St. Jude's Day (patron of desperate or hopeless cases) |
| October 28 Events | Le Morte D'Arthur published Cotton Gin patented Harvard University founded (1636) Gulliver's Travels published (1726) 1st Child born in an airplane Statue of Liberty dedicated (1886) Americazation of Emily premiered Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony premiered Hungarian Revolution (1956) 1st Female US Ambassador appointed (1949) Earthquake destroyed Lima, Peru (1746) Black-Shirt Fascists captured Rome (1922) UK Parliament opening 1st televised (1958) George Eastman announced invention of Color Photographic Process (1914) Edouard Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff (1863) Nick Gilder's Hot Child in the City reached No. 1 (1978) Cuban Missile Crisis ended (1962) Volstead Act passed (1919) Michael Faraday invented device to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy (1831) |
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| 29 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Ralph Bakshi Edmund Halley Winona Ryder Kevin Maguire Richard Dreyfuss Apollonius of Tyana Zoot Sims Edward Wadsworth R.B. Kitaj Jean Giradoux Bela Lugosi Denny Laine Geraldine Brooks Bill Mauldin Fanny Brice Kate Jackson James Boswell Dirk Kempthorne J.T. Smith Melba Moore Daniel Decatur Emmett Connie Mack Peter Green Jim Bibby Randy Jackson Jesse Lee Barfield Michael D'Andrea Carter Charles Swann Joseph Goebbels |
Laugh Suddenly For No Reason A Lot Today Day Hermit Day Festival of Global Climate Change Hide From Everyone Day Iroquois Feast of the Dead (every 12 years) Kampuchea Independance Day Oatmeal Day Second Fiddle of the Month (Fairy) Turkey Republic Day St. Baldus' Day (patron of cattle; against family problems) National Disgusting Little Pumpkin-Shaped Candies Day |
| October 29 Events | Red Cross founded (1963) 1st Corn husking contest (311) Tanganyika and Zanzibar became Tanzania (1964) Stock Market collapsed (1929) 1st Arab Oil Embargo began (1973) National Organization for Women founded (1966) 1st Slot machine paid $275,000 Tomb of Genghis Kahn discovered Ball point pens appeared for sale Kalamazoo County, Michigan founded (1829) 1st Fire to be put out using man-made rain Rosie Beau comic strip began (1916) Duane Allman killed in motorcyle accident (1971) 1st Compulsory US peacetime draft began (1940) Tomb of Genghis Khan discovered (1927) Israeli soldiers crossed the Sinai Peninsula (1956) 1st Steam-powered warship launched (1814) Star of India & other gems stolen from Natural History Museum, NYC (1964) Leon Czolgosz electrocuted for assassinating US President McKinley (1901) The Tollivers visited their son Michael in San Francisco (Tale of the City) Lindy Chamberlain, who claimed her baby was taken by a Dingo, convicted of murder (Australia; 1982) |
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| 30 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| John Adams Christopher Columbus Jan Vermeer Christopher Wren Erza Pound Alfred Sisley Harold Pinter Ted Williams Charles Atlas Louis Malle Henry Winkler Diego Maradona Paul Valery Harry Hamlin Ruth Gordon Grace Slick Admiral "Bull" Halsey Richard Brinsley Sheridan Melissa Holliday (Pb 1/95) Bill Terry Ed Delahanty Joe Adcock Gordon Parks Nestor Almedros Dale Dawkins Fred Friendly Jim Perry Dick Gautier John S. Bowen |
Covenant of Grace Day Devil's Night (Detroit, Michigan) Chan Kom (Mexico) Buy-A-Doughnut Day Goddess Month of Hathor ends Swaziland Independance Day Los Angelitos (Mexico) St. Dorothy of Montau's Day (patron of Prussia) National Candy Corn Day St. Serapion of Antioch's Day Look in the Back of Your Refrigerator Day |
| October 30 Events | Time clock patented Yeoman of the Guard established by Henry VII of England (1485) Shostakovich 11th Symphony premiered 1st Person shown on television (1925) Orson Welles 1st broadcast The War of the Worlds on radio (1938) Muhammed Ali beat Sonny Liston for the Heavyweight Boxing Title (1964) Rev. Sun Myung Moon simultaneously wed 6,516 couples (1988) Martians destroyed Los Angeles (War of the Worlds; 1938) 1st US College admitted women (Oberlin College; 1838) Jerry & friends got lost in the mall parking garage (on Seinfeld; 1991) Lawrence of Arabia turned down the Order of the Bath from King George V (1918) Men At Work's Who Can It Be Now? reached No. 1 (1982) World Columbian Exposition in Chicago closed (1893) Tsar of Russia reluctantly agreed to grant the October Manifesto (1905) Chinese boy Emperor Pu Yi granted Chinese Constitution (1911) Polish Solidarity leader, Father Jerzy Popieluszko, found dead after being missing for 12 days (1984) |
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| 31 October | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| John Keats Benoit Fourneyron Frank Shorter Jane Pauley Cal Hubbard Itzhak Perlman David Ogden Stiers John Candy Michael Collins Dan Rather Eddie Charlton Dave McNally Gerhard Domagk Dale Evans Juliette Gordon Low Robin Moore Annabella Lwin Ed "The Creeper" Stroud Richard Hunt Meindert Hobbema Joseph Swan Melinda Dillon Larry Mullen John Evelyn Deidre Hall Tom Paxton Lee Grant Michael Landon Barbara Bel Geddes Ethel Waters Wilbur "Pete" Henry Mickey Rivers Bill Fralic Larry Mullen Jr. Roy Romer Chaing Kai-Shek Kinky Friedman Preston Pegram Mary Reiver |
Halloween Samhain Eve (Druid) Old Celtic New Year's Eve Festival of Inner Worlds Goddess Month of Cailleach/Samhain begins Homemakers Day Increase Your Psychic Powers Day Beggar's Night National UNICEF Day Youth Honor Day (Iowa, Massachusetts) Antigua Independence Day National Magic Day Reformation Day Trick or Treat Night Duck Apple Night (Liverpool, UK) Apple and Candle Night (Wales) Thump-the-Door Night (Isle of Man) St. Quentin's Day (patron of bombardiers, locksmiths, porters; against coughs, sneezes) Feast to Pomona (Roman Empire) National Caramel Apple Day Dookie Apple Night (Newcastle, UK) St. Wolfgang's Day (patron of carpenters, shepherds; against apoplexy, gout, hemorrhages, stomach trouble, wolves) |
| October 31 Events | Nevada became 36th state (1864) Protestant Reformation began (1517) Monty Python's 4th season debuted 1st Pacemaker installed (1958) Columbia University founded (1754) Battle of Britain ended (WW 2; 1940) Mount Rushmore completed (1941) Supremes' Baby Love reached No. 1 (1964) Pneumatic Tire patented (1888) Harry Houdini died after punch in the stomach (1926) Stalin's body removed from public display (1961) Indira Gandhi assassinated (1984) Sistine Chapel 1st opened to the public (1512) James Joyce finished Ulysses (1921) Dixie Dugan comic strip began (1929) IRA Bomb exploded on top of London's Post Office Tower (1971) Boris Pasternak expelled from Soviet Writers' Union for Dr. Zhivago (1958) |
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