Month Long Observances

Adopt-a-Shelter-Animal Month

Computer Learning Month

Family History Month

National Apple Month

National Clock Month

National Dessert Month

National Pizza Month

National Popcorn Popping Month

National Roller Skating Month

Polish American History Month

National Stamp Collecting Month

Week Long Observances

1st Week - Fire Prevention Week

2nd Week - Teen Read Week

October 1st

Homemade Cookies Day

World Vegetarian Day

October 2nd

Name Your Car Day

Peanuts Comic Strip First PublishedIn 1950.

October 3rd

Captain Kangaroo Day
The show first aired on this day in 1955.

SOS Established
Designated as internationaldistress code in 1906.

October 4th

National Golf Day

Sputnik I Launched
The first space vehicle - launched in 1957.

World Card Making Day

October 5th

Ray Kroc's Birthday
Founder of McDonalds. Born in 1902.

World Teacher Day

October 6th

Child Health Day

Thomas Edison Shows 1st Motion Picture in 1889.

October 7th

American Bandstand Premiered in 1957.

October 8th

J. Frank Duryea's Birthday
Born in 1869. His brother, Charles, and him built and oprated the first automobile in the US. He also won America's first automobile race.

Yom Kippur begins at sundown.

October 9th

First Two-Way Telephone Conversation in 1876.

Leif Ericson Day

Moldy Cheese Day

The Count's Birthday (Sesame Street Character.)

October 10th

Henry Cavendish's Birthday
Born in England in 1731.

October 11th

Eleanor Roosevelt's Birthday
Born in born 1884.

First Steam-Powered Ferryboat Begins Operation
Name the "Juliana", began operation in 1811.

October 12th

D韆 de la Raza
Celebrate in Mexico.

Farmer's Day

October 13th

Columbus Day
Second Monday in October.

First Aerial Photo in US taken from a balloon in Boston in 1860.

Indigenous People's Day
Second Monday in October.

Margaret Thatcher's Birthday
Born in 1925.

Thanksgiving Day in Canada
Second Monday in October.

October 14th

Grover's Birthday
Sesame Street Character.


October 15th

National Grouch Day

National Poetry Day

October 16th

Boss's Day

Dictionary Day

World Food Day

October 17th

Black Poetry Day
Honoring the birthday of Jupiter Hammon. He was the first American black to publish his poetry.

October 18th

Alaska Day
The anniversary of the transfer of the territory and the raising of the US. flag at Sitka on this day in 1867.

Little Orphan Annie's Birthday
Comic strip character, in 1922.

Puerto Rico Became U.S. Colony in 1898.

Sweetest Day
Third Saturday in October.

October 19th

Star Spangled Banner First Sung in 1814.

Thomas Edison Demonstrated Electric Light sSuccessfully in 1879.

October 20th

Mickey Mantle's Birthday
Born on this day in 1931 in Spavinaw, Oklahoma.

Monster Mash Day
On this day in 1962 the Monster mash, by Bobby "Boris" Picket and the Crypt Kickers, reached number 1 in the music charts and stayed there for 2 weeks!.

October 21st

Guggenheim Museum Opens
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of modern and contemporary art opened in New York City on October 21, 1959.

October 22nd

National Nut Day

October 23rd

Edison Pele's Birthday
Brazilian soccer player, born in 1940.

October 24th

Betty Lou's Birthday
Sesame Street Character.

National Bologna Day

United Nations Day

October 25th

National Denim Day

Pablo Picasso's Birthday
Born in Spain in 1881.

October 26th

Hilary Rodham Clinton's Birthday
Born in 1947.

International Red Cross Organized in Geneva, Switzerland in 1863.

Mother-in-Law's Day Fourth Sunday in October.

October 27th

Theodore Roosevelt's Birthday
Born in 1858.

October 28th

Plush Animal Lover's Day

Statue of Liberty's Birthday

October 29th

National Organization of Women Founded in 1966.

October 30th

John Adams' Birthday In 1735.

October 31st

Halloween

Juliette Gordon Low's Birthday
Born in 1860, she was the woman who the started Girl Scouting in the United States in 1912.

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• international [,intə´næʃənəl] a.国际的，世界的 (初中英语单词)
• distress [di´stres] n.痛苦 vt.使苦恼 (初中英语单词)
• cheese [tʃi:z] n.干酪，乳酪 (初中英语单词)
• character [´kæriktə] n.特性；性质；人物；字 (初中英语单词)
• poetry [´pəuitri] n.诗；诗意 (初中英语单词)
• jupiter [´dʒu:pitə] n.朱庇特；木星 (初中英语单词)
• transfer [træns´fə:] v.&n.迁移；调动；转让 (初中英语单词)
• banner [´bænə] n.旗(帜)；头号标题 (初中英语单词)
• monster [´mɔnstə] n.怪物 a.大得异常的 (初中英语单词)
• player [´pleiə] n.游戏的人；选手 (初中英语单词)
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• roller [´rəulə] n.打滚的人；滚柱 (高中英语单词)
• motion [´məuʃən] n.手势 vt.打手势 (高中英语单词)
• balloon [bə´lu:n] n.气球 (高中英语单词)
• orphan [´ɔ:fən] n.&a.孤儿 vt.使成孤儿 (高中英语单词)
• solomon [´sɔləmən] n.所罗门 (高中英语单词)
• contemporary [kən´tempərəri] a.&n.同时代的(人) (高中英语单词)
• geneva [dʒi´ni:və] n.日内瓦 (高中英语单词)
• switzerland [´switsələnd] n.瑞士 (高中英语单词)
• prevention [pri´venʃən] n.预防；阻止；妨碍 (英语四级单词)
• vehicle [´vi:ikəl] n.车辆；媒介物 (英语四级单词)
• aerial [´eəriəl] a.空中的 n.天线 (英语四级单词)
• anniversary [,æni´və:səri] n.周年纪念(日) (英语四级单词)
• edison [´edisn] n.爱迪生 (英语六级单词)
• sundown [´sʌndaun] n.日落 (英语六级单词)
• picket [´pikit] n.(尖)桩 v.设置；监视 (英语六级单词)