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Name Your Car Day Peanuts Comic Strip First Published In 1950. International Day of Non-Violence, birthday of Mohandas Ghandi (born 1869) 2 |
Captain Kangaroo Day (Show first aired on this day in 1955) SOS Established in 1906 3 |
First Compact Disc and Player released by Sony in 1982 (Billy Joel '52nd Street') Robert Lawson born, 1892 Donald Sobol born, 1924 Sputnik I Launched in 1957 (first space vehicle) 4 |
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Thomas Edison Shows 1st Motion Picture In 1889. American Library Association Founded (1876) 6 |
Alice Dalgliesh born, 1893 American Bandstand premiered in 1957 Rose designated as the U.S. National Flower (1986) 7 |
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First Two-Way Telephone Conversation in 1876 Moldy Cheese Day The Count's Birthday (Sesame Street Character) 9 |
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Eleanor Roosevelt born, 1884 First Steam-Powered Ferryboat 'Juliana' began operations in 1811. 11 |
Dia de la Raza (Mexico) 12 |
Margaret Thatcher born in 1925. First Aerial Photo in US Taken from a balloon in Boston in 1860. Molly Pitcher (Revolutionary War Heroine) born, 1754 13 |
Lois Lenski born, 1893 Dwight David Eisenhower (34th President) born, 1890 Grover's Birthday (Sesame Street Character) 14 |
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San Francisco Earthquake (1989) 17 |
Little Orphan Annie birthday. Comic strip character, in 1922. Mason-Dixon Line Established (1767) Puerto Rico U.S. takes control of the former Spanish colony in 1898. 18 |
Ed Emberley born, 1931. Star Spangled Banner First Sung In 1814. Thomas Edison Demonstrated Electric Light Successfully in 1879. Final battle of the Revolutionary War (1781) 19 |
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Sir James Chadwick (Discoverer of the Neutron) born, 1891 Crockett Johnson born, 1906 20 |
Guggenheim Museum Opens (1959) 21 |
iPod First Revealed (2001) Red Ribbon Week (Oct 23-31) Marjorie Flack born, 1897 Edison Pele Brazilian soccer player, born in 1940. 23 |
Bruno Munari born, 1907 Betty Lou's Birthday (Sesame Street Character) 24 |
Pablo Picasso Born in Spain in 1881. 25 |
Hillary Rodham Clinton born, 1947. International Red Cross Organized In Geneva, Switzerland in 1863. Erie Canal Opened (1825) 26 |
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Bill Gates born, 1955 Plush Animal Lover's Day Statue of Liberty dedicated in 1886. Leonard Kessler born, 1921 28 |
Stock Market Crash (1929) 29 |
John Adams born in 1735. 30 |
Juliette Gordon Low Born in 1860, she started Girl Scouting in the United States in 1912. 31 |