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October 2017
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SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
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Homemade Cookies Day
World Vegetarian Day
Henry Ford Introduced
the Model T (1908)
World Habitat Day
Child Health Day
Name Your Car Day
International Day of
Non-Violence
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Edward Ormondroyd
born, 1925
The Great Chicago Fire
started (1871)
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National Grouch Day
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Mother-in-Law’s Day
National Nut Day
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Stock Market Crash -
1929 (1929)
Captain Kangaroo Day
(Show first aired on
this day in 1955)
SOS Established in
1906
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Leif Ericson Day
Columbus Day
Thanksgiving Day in
Canada
Moldy Cheese Day
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James Marshall born,
1942
Henry Cavendish born
in England in 1731
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Dictionary Day
Noah Webster born,
1758
World Food Day
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Black Poetry Day
San Francisco Earth-
quake (1989)
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iPod First Revealed
(2001)
Red Ribbon Week (Oct
23-31)
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Bruno Munari born,
1907
National Bologna Day
United Nations Day
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John Adams born in
1735.
Emily Post (author)
born, 1873
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Halloween
Juliette Gordon Low
Born in 1860, she
started United States
Girl Scouting in 1912
Donald Sobol born,
1924
Sputnik I Launched
in 1957 (first space
vehicle)
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Eleanor Roosevelt
born, 1884
First Steam-Powered
Ferryboat ‘Juliana’ be-
gan operations in 1811
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Mason-Dixon Line
Established (1767)
Puerto Rico Became
U.S. Colony In 1898
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Pablo Picasso Born in
Spain in 1881
World Teacher Day
Gene Zion born, 1913
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National Poetry Day
(England)
Farmer’s Day
Dia de la Raza
(Mexico)
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Thomas Edison Electric
Light, 1879
Final battle of the
Revolutionary War
(1781)
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
born, 1947
International Red Cross
Organized In Geneva,
Switzerland in 1863
FRIDAY SATURDAY
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National Denim Day
Thomas Edison 1st Mo-
tion Picture, 1889
Am. Library Associa-
tion Founded (1876)
American Bandstand
premiered in 1957
Rose designated U.S.
National Flower, 1986
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Margaret Thatcher born
in 1925.
Molly Pitcher (Revolu-
tionary War Heroine)
born, 1754
Lois Lenski born, 1893
Dwight David Eisen-
hower (34th Presi-
dent) born, 1890
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Sir James Chadwick
(Discoverer of the
Neutron) born, 1891
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Sweetest Day
Guggenheim Museum
Opens (1959)
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Theodore Roosevelt
born in 1858
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Bill Gates born, 1955
Plush Animal Lover’s
Day
Statue of Liberty dedi-
cated in 1886
October is
Breast Cancer
Awareness Month