October 17, 2018
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October 2018
C alendar
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
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2
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World Habitat Day
Child Health Day
Homemade Cookies
Day
World Vegetarian Day
Name Your Car Day
International Day
of Non-Violence
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9
Columbus Day
Thanksgiving Day in
Canada
The Great Chicago
Fire started (1871)
First Two-Way Tele-
phone Conversation
in 1876
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National Grouch
Day
22
National Nut Day
29
Stock Market Crash -
1929 (1929)
Captain Kangaroo
Day (Show first
aired in 1955)
SOS Established in
1906
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Leif Ericson Day
SUNDAY
7
Donald Sobol born,
1924
Sputnik I Launched
in 1957 (first space
vehicle)
National Denim Day
World Teacher Day
Thomas Edison 1st
Motion Picture, 1889
American Library
Association Found-
ed (1876)
American Bandstand
premiered in 1957
Rose designated as
the U.S. National
Flower (1986)
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Margaret Thatcher
born in 1925
First Aerial Photo in
US Taken, 1860
Lois Lenski born,
1893
Dwight David Eisen-
hower born, 1890
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National Poetry Day
(England)
Eleanor Roosevelt
born, 1884
James Marshall
born, 1942
FRIDAY SATURDAY
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6
Farmer’s Day
Dia de la Raza
(Mexico)
Moldy Cheese Day
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Dictionary Day
Noah Webster born,
1758
World Food Day
17
Black Poetry Day
San Francisco
Earthquake (1989)
23
iPod First Revealed
(2001)
Red Ribbon Week
(Oct 23-31)
24
National Bologna
Day
United Nations Day
30
John Adams born,
1735
Emily Post (author)
born, 1873
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Halloween
Juliette Gordon Low
Born in 1860; start-
ed Girl Scouting in
the United States
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Mason-Dixon Line
Established (1767)
Puerto Rico Became
U.S. Colony, 1898
Star Spangled Banner
First Sung In 1814
Thomas Edison
Demonstrated Elec-
tric Light, 1879
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Pablo Picasso Born
in Spain in 1881
Hillary Rodham
Clinton born, 1947
International Red Cross
Organized, 1863
Sweetest Day
Crockett Johnson
born, 1906
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Theodore Roosevelt
born in 1858
Guggenheim Muse-
um Opens (1959)
28
Mother-in-Law’s
Day
Bill Gates born, 1955
Statue of Liberty
dedicated in 1886