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Minority & Small Business Week
M ONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Homemade Cookies
Day
World Vegetarian Day
Henry Ford Intro
duced the Model T
(1908)
6
World Habitat Day
Child Health Day
Thomas Edison
Shows Ist Motion
Picture In 1889.
13
Columbus Day
Thanksgiving Day in
Canada
Molly Pitcher
(Revolutionary War
Heroine) bom, 1754
20
Sir James Chadwick
(Discoverer o f the
Neutron) bom,
1891
Crockett Johnson
bom, 1906
1
7
Theodore Roosevelt
bom in 1858.
7
Alice Dalgliesh bom,
1893
American Bandstand
premiered in 1957
Rose designated U.S.
Nat. Flower (1986)
14
Dwight David
Eisenhower (34th
President) bom, 1890
Grover's Birthday
(Sesame Street
Character)
21
Guggenheim Museum
Opens (1959)
o
8
Edward Ormondroyd
bom, 1925
J. Frank Duryea bom
in 1869
The Great Chicago
Fire started (1871)
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THURSDAY
Peanuts Comic Strip
First Published 1950.
International Day of
Non-Violence,
Mohandas Ghandi
birthday (bom 1869)
National Poetry
Day (England)
Leif Ericson Day
The Count's Birthday
(Sesame Street
Character)
15
National Grouch Day
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
First Compact Disc
and Player released
by Sony in 1982
(Billy Joel '52nd
Street')
SOS Established 1906
Eid al-Adha (Muslim
Holiday, 5th in
North America)
Sputnik I Launched
in 1957 (first space
vehicle)
Gene Zion bom, 1913
Ray Kroc bom, 1902
(Mastermind o f
McDonald's
franchise)
10
11
12
James Marshall bom,
1942
Henry Cavendish
bom in England in
1731.
Eleanor Roosevelt
bom, 1884
First Steam-Powered
Ferryboat 'Juliana'
began operations in
1811.
17
18
9
First Two-Way
Telephone Conver
sation in 1876
16
Dictionary Day
Black Poetry Day
Sweetest Day
Noah Webster bom,
1758
San Francisco
Earthquake (1989)
Mason-Dixon Line
Established (1767)
Puerto Rico Became
U.S. Colony In
1898.
24
25
World Food Day
Edward Ardizzone
bom, 1900
22
National Nut Day
23
iPod First Revealed
(2001)
Edison Pele Brazilian
soccer player, bom
in 1940.
United
Nations Day
Betty Lou's Birthday
(Sesame Street
Character)
National Bologna Day
28
Ä7/ Gates bom, 1955
Plush Animal Lover's
Day
Statue o f Liberty
dedicated in 1886.
29
Stock Market Crash
1929 (1929)
October I, 2014
30 €
John Adams bom in
1735.
Emily Post (author)
bom, 1873
31
Halloween
Juliette Gordon Low
Bom in 1860, she
started Girl Scout
ing in the United
States in 1912.
Pablo Picasso Bom
in Spain in 1881.
SUNDAY
World Teacher Day
Farmer’s Day
Dia de la Raza
(Mexico)
19
Thomas Edison
Demonstrated
Electric Light
Successfully in 1879.
Final battle o f the
Revolutionary War
(1781)
26
Mother-in-Law's Day
International Red
Cross Organized In
Geneva in 1863.
Erie Canal Opened
(1825)