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SUNDAY
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
8
Edward Ormondroyd
born, 1925
The Great Chicago Fire
started (1871)
15
National Grouch Day
22
Mother-in-Law’s Day
National Nut Day
29
Stock Market Crash -
1929 (1929)
9
Leif Ericson Day
Columbus Day
Thanksgiving Day in
Canada
Moldy Cheese Day
10
James Marshall born,
1942
Henry Cavendish born
in England in 1731
16
Dictionary Day
Noah Webster born,
1758
World Food Day
17
Black Poetry Day
San Francisco Earth-
quake (1989)
23
iPod First Revealed
(2001)
Red Ribbon Week (Oct
23-31)
24
Bruno Munari born,
1907
National Bologna Day
United Nations Day
30
John Adams born in
1735.
Emily Post (author)
born, 1873
31
Halloween
Juliette Gordon Low
Born in 1860, she
started United States
Girl Scouting in 1912
11
Eleanor Roosevelt
born, 1884
First Steam-Powered
Ferryboat ‘Juliana’ be-
gan operations in 1811
18
Mason-Dixon Line
Established (1767)
Puerto Rico Became
U.S. Colony In 1898
25
Pablo Picasso Born in
Spain in 1881
12
National Poetry Day
(England)
Farmer’s Day
Dia de la Raza
(Mexico)
19
Thomas Edison Electric
Light, 1879
Final battle of the
Revolutionary War
(1781)
26
Hillary Rodham Clinton
born, 1947
International Red Cross
Organized In Geneva,
Switzerland in 1863
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
13
Margaret Thatcher born
in 1925.
Molly Pitcher (Revolu-
tionary War Heroine)
born, 1754
14
Lois Lenski born, 1893
Dwight David Eisen-
hower (34th Presi-
dent) born, 1890
20
Sir James Chadwick
(Discoverer of the
Neutron) born, 1891
21
Sweetest Day
Guggenheim Museum
Opens (1959)
27
Theodore Roosevelt
born in 1858
28
Bill Gates born, 1955
Plush Animal Lover’s
Day
Statue of Liberty dedi-
cated in 1886
October is
Breast Cancer
Awareness Month