October Holidays & Observances Calendar

OCTOBER HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES		Holiday posters index \| September \| October \| November \| search site autumn posters
October Observances:		poster links	resource links
	Dental Hygiene Month	dental posters
	Dinosaur Month	dinosaur posters
	Family History Month
	Hispanic Heritage Month	Latino posters
	Stamp Collecting Month		American Philatelic Society
	UNICEF Month	peace posters	United Nations Children's Fund

	First Week of October
	National Breastfeeding Week		La Leche League
	National Newspaper Week	Headlines posters	National Newspaper Assoc
	World Space Week	astronomy posters	SpaceWeek.org

	Second Week of October
	National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Week		National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness
	National Fire Prevention Week		Nat'l Fire Protection Assoc.
	School Lunch Week	nutrition posters	School Nutrition Assoc.

	Third Week of October
	National Chemistry Week	science posters	National Science Teachers Assoc
	National Food Bank Week	food posters	America's Second Harvest
	National Health Education Week	health posters	National Center for Health Education
	Infection Control Week	disease posters	Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
	National Pharmacy Week	medicinal posters	US Dept of Health & Human Services
	Reading Week	vintage reading posters	American Library Association
	Wolf Awareness Week	mammals posters	Timber Wolf Alliance

	Fourth Week of October
	National Magic Week		Soc of American Magicians
	Respiratory Care Week	respiratory anatomy posters
	World Rainforest Week	rain forest posters

October Holidays

	10-12, 1492 Columbus Day (observed 2nd Monday of October)	Columbus posters
	10-17-2009, Diwali, Festival of Lights (11-5-2010, 10-26-2011)	India posters	What is Diwali?
	10/31- Halloween	Halloween posters

October Notable Dates


	b. 10-1-1507 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, architect	Vignola print	Giacomo Barazzi da Vignola Resource File
	b. 10-1-1903 - Vladimir Horowitz, pianist	Vladimir Horowitz print	Vladimir Horowitz Resource File
	b. 10-1-1924 - Jimmy Carter, US President	presidents posters	White House Bio - Carter

	b. 10-2-1851 - Marshal Ferdinand Foch, military	Marshal Ferdinand Foch TIME Magazine cover	Ferdinand Foch Resource File
	b. 10-2-1869 - Mahatma Gandhi; India	Gandhi posters	CP Links for Learning - Gandhi
	b. 10-2-1871 - Cordell Hull	Cordell Hull TIME Magazine cover	Cordell Hull Resource File
	b. 10-2-1904 - Graham Greene, author	Graham Greene print	Graham Greene Resource File

	b. 10-3-1858 - Eleonora Duse, actress	Eleonora Duse TIME Magazine cover	Eleonora Duse Resource File
	b. 10-3-1862 - Alice B. Woodward, artist	Alice B. Woodward print	Alice B. Woodward Resource File
	b. 10-3-1867 - Pierre Bonnard, artist	Pierre Bonnard print	Pierre Bonnard Resource File
	b. 10-3-1900 - Thomas Wolfe, author	Thomas Wolfe print	Thomas Wolfe Resource File

	b. 10-4-1814 - Jean-François Millet	Jean-François Millet print	Jean-François Millet Resource File
	b. 10-4-1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, US President	R. B. Hayes print	White House Bio - Hayes

	b. 10-5-1703 - Jonathan Edwards, theologian	Jonathan Edwards print	Jonathan Edwards Resource File
	b. 10-5-1829 - Chester Alan Arthur, VT	Chester A. Arthur print	White House Bio - Arthur
	b. 10-5-1882 - Robert M. Goddard, scientist	Robert M. Goddard rocket poster	Robert M. Goddard Resource File
	b. 10-5-1959 - Maya Lin, architect	Vietnam War Memorial print	Maya Lin Resource File

	b. 10-6-1552 - Matteo Ricci, Jesuit missionary	Matteo Ricci print	Matteo Ricci Resource File
	b. 10-6-1820 - Jenny Lind	Jenny Lind print	Jenny Lind Resource File
	b. 10-6-1846 - George Westinghouse, industrialist	George Westinghouse poster	George Westinghouse Resource File
	b. 10-6-1887 - Le Corbusier, architect	Le Corbusier print	Le Corbusier Resource File
	b. 10-6-1887 - Maria Jeritza, opera singer	Maria Jeritza TIME	Maria Jeritza Resource File
	b. 10-6-1906 - Janet Gaynor, actress	Janet Gaynor photo	Janet Gaynor Resource File

	b. 10-7-1675 - Rosalba Carriera, artist	Rosalba Carriera print	Rosalba Carriera Resource File
	b. 10-7-1849 - James Whitcomb Riley, poet	James Whitcomb Riley House print	James Whitcomb Riley Resource File
	b. 10-7-1885 - Niels Bohr, physicist	Niels Bohr print	Niels Bohr Resource File
	b. 10-7-1966 - Sherman Alexie, author	Sherman Alexie poster	Sherman Alexie Resource File

	b. 10-8-1930 - Faith Ringgold, artist	Faith Ringgold print	Faith Ringgold Resource File
	b. 10-8-1941 - Jesse Jackson, political activit	Jesse Jackson posters	CP Links for Learning - Jackson

	10-9-1835 - Camille Saint-Saens, composer	Saint-Saens print	Camille Saint-Saens Resource File
	b. 10-9-1919 - Irmgard Seefried, soprano	Irmgard Seefried photo	Irmgard Seefried Resource File

	d. 10-10-1659 - Abel Janszoom Tasman, explorer	Tasman print	Abel Janszoom Tasman Resource File
	b. 10-10-1731 - Henry Cavendish, scientist	Henry Cavendish print	Henry Cavendish Resource File
	b. 10-10-1813 - Guiseppe Verdi, composer	Guiseppe Verdi posters	Guiseppe Verdi Resource File
	b. 10-10-1858 - Maurice Prendergast, artist	Maurice Prendergast print	Maurice Prendergast Resource File
	b. 10-10-1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, explorer	Fridtjof Nansen print	Fridtjof Nansen Resource File

	b. 10-10-1917 - Thelonious Monk, musician	Thelonious Monk photo	Thelonious Monk Resource File
	b. 10-10-1900 - Helen Hayes, actress	Helen Hayes photo	Helen Hayes Resource File

	b. 10-11-1872 - Emily Wilding Davison, suffragette	Emily Davison print	Emily Davison Resource File
	b. 10-11-1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady, human rights activist	Eleanor Roosevelt posters	CP Links for Learning - Roosevelt

	b. 10-12-1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer	Luciano Pavarotti photo	Luciano Pavarotti Resource File

	b. 10-13-1853 - Lillie Langtry, opera singer	Lillie Langtry print	Lillie Langtry Resource File
	b. 10-13-1862 - Mary Henrietta Kingsley, author	Mary Henrietta Kingsley print	Mary Henrietta Kingsley Resource File
	b. 10-13-1925 - Margaret Thatcher, politician	Margaret Thatcher photo	Margaret Thatcher Resource File

	b. 10-14-1718 - William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania posters	William Penn Resource File
	b. 10-14-1824 - Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, painter	Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli print	Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli Resource File
	b. 10-14-1882 - Éamonn de Valera, Irish revolutionary	Éamonn de Valera print	Éamonn de Valera Resource File
	b. 10-14-1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, US President	presidents posters	White House Bio - Eisenhower
	b. 10-14-1894 - e. e. cummings, poet	e. e. cummings poster	E. E. Cumming's Life
	10-14-1947 - Chuck Yaeger breaks the sound barrier	Chuck Yaeger poster	Chuck Yeager Resource File

	b. 10-15-70BC - Virgil, poet	Virgil print	Virgil Resource File
	b. 10-15-1608 - Evangelista Torricelli, physicist	Torricelli print	Evangelista Torricelli Resource File
	b. 10-15-1831 - Isabella Bird Bishop, traveller	Isabella Bird Bishop print	Isabella Bird Bishop Resource File
	b. 10-15-1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher	Nietzsche print	Friedrich Nietzsche Resource File
	b. 10-15-1917 - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian	Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. TIME Magazine	Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Resource File
	b. 10-15-1997 - Cassini-Hugyens launched	Cassini-Hugyens poster	NASA/ESA/ASI

	d. 10-16-1555 - Hugh Latimer & Nicholas Ridley, martyrs	theologian posters	The Oxford Martyrs Resource File
	b. 10-16-1758 - Noah Webster, Dictionary Day	Noah Webster print	Noah Webster House Museum
	b. 10-16-1854 - Oscar Wilde, poet	Oscar Wilde poster	Oscar Wilde Resource File
	b. 10-16-1874 - Oscar Mueller, artist	Expressionists prints	Oscar Mueller Resource File
	b. 10-16-1888 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright	Eugene O'Neill print	Eugene O'Neill Resource File
	b. 10-16-1927 - Günter Grass, author	Günter Grass print	Gunter Grass Resource File

	b. 10-17-1915 - Arthur Miller, playwright	Arthur Miller & Marilyn Monroe photo	Arthur Miller Resource File
	b. 10-17-1956 - Mae Jemison, astronaut	Mae Jemison photo	Mae Jemison Resource File

	b. 10-18-1616 - Nicholas Culpeper, physician, herbalist	Nicholas Culpeper print	Nicholas Culpeper Resource File
	b. 10-18-1859 - Henri Bergson, philosopher	Henri Bergson print	Henri Bergson Resource File
	b. 10-18-1961 - Wynton Marsalis, musician	Wynton Marsalis TIME cover	Wynton Marsalis Resource File

	b. 10-20-1632 - Christopher Wren, architect	Christopher Wren print	Christopher Wren Resource File
	b. 10-20-1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, poet	Arthur Rimbaud print	Arthur Rimbaud Resource File
	b. 10-20-1859 - John Dewey, philosopher	John Dewey TIME Magazine Cover	John Dewey books at Amazon.com
	b. 10-20-1885 - Jelly Roll Morton, musician	Jelly Roll Morton print	Jelly Roll Morton Resource File

	b. 10-21-1772 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet	Samuel Taylor Coleridge print	Samuel Taylor Coleridge Resource File
	b. 10-21-1833 - Alfred Nobel, chemist	Alfred Nobel print	Alfred Nobel Resource File
	10-21-1879, Thomas Edison solved vacuum problem in lightbulb, illuminating a carbon filament for 40 hours.	Thomas A. Edison posters	CP Links for Learning - Edison
	b. 10-21-1895 - Edna Purviance, actress	Edna Purviance with Charlie Chaplin, photo	Edna Purviance Resource File
	b. 10-21-1917 - Dizzy Gillespie, jazz musician	Dizzy Gillespie poster	Dizzy Gillespie Reosurce File

	b. 10-22-1811 - Franz Liszt, composer & pianist	Franz Liszt posters	Franz Liszt Resource File
	b. 10-22-1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, actress	Sarah Bernhardt posters	Sarah Bernhardt Links for Learning

	b. 10-24-1632 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek	Anton van Leeuwenhoek microscope poster	Anton van Leeuwenhoek Resource File
	10-24-1945 - United Nations Established	peace posters	United Nations Official Site

	d. 10-25-1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer, author	Geoffrey Chaucer print	Geoffrey Chaucer Resource File
	b. 10-25-1825 - Johann Strauss II, composer	Johann Strauss II posters	Johann Strauss II Resource File
	b. 10-25-1838 - Georges Bizet, composer	Georges Bizet print	Georges Bizet Resource File
	b. 10-25-1881 - Pablo Picasso, Spain	Pablo Picasso posters	CP Links for Learning - Picasso
	b. 10-25-1888 - Richard E. Byrd, explorer	Richard E. Byrd print	Richard E. Byrd Resource File
	b. 10-25-1902 - Henry Steele Commager, author	Henry Steele Commager print	Henry Steele Commager Resource File

	b. 10-26-1797 - Giuditta Pasta, opera singer	Giuditta Pasta	Giuditta Pasta Resource File
	b. 10-26-1911 - Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer	Mahalia Jackson photo	Mahalia Jackson Resource File
	b. 10-26-1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1st Lady and presidental candidate	Hillary Rodham Clinton photo	Hillary Rodham Clinton Resource File

	b. 10-27-1466 - Eramus, theologian	Eramus portrait	Eramus Resource File
	b. 10-27-1728 - Capt. James Cook, explorer	Capt. Cook print	James Cook Resource File
	b. 10-27-1736 - James Macpherson, author	James Macpherson print	James Macpherson Resource File
	b. 10-27-1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, US President	presidents posters	White House Bio Theodore Roosevelt
	b. 10-27-1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, artist	Roy Lichtenstein print	Roy Lichtenstein Resource File
	b. 10-27-1932 - Sylvia Plath, author	Sylvia Plath	Sylvia Plath Resource File
	b. 10-27-1940 - Maxine Hong Kingston, author	Maxine Hong Kingston posters	CP Links for Learning - Maxine Hong Kingston

	10-28-1793 - Cotton Gin Invented	inventions posters	Cotton Gin Reource File
	10-28-1886 Statue of Liberty Dedicated		Statue of Liberty National Park Serv

	d. 10-29-1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer	Raleigh portrait	Sir Walter Raleigh Resource File
	b. 10-29-1740 - James Boswell, author	James Boswell print	James Boswell Resource File
	10-29-1929 - Wall Street Crash	Headline poster	Wall Street Crash Resource File
	10-29-2005 - Daylight time ends. On the last Sunday in October, clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local daylight time, which becomes 1:00 a.m. local standard time. (On the first Sunday in April, clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time, which becomes 3:00 a.m. local daylight time.)		U.S. Naval Observatory

	b. 10-30-1735 - John Adams, US President	John Adams print	White House Bio - John Adams
	b. 10-30-1741 - Angelica Kauffmann, artist	Angelica Kauffmann print	Angelica Kauffmann Resource File
	b. 10-30-1751 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, author	Richard Brinsley Sheridan print	Richard Brinsley Sheridan Resource File
	b. 10-30-1853 - Andre-Charles Messager, composer	Andre-Charles Messager print	Andre-Charles Messager Resource File
	b. 10-30-1858 - Louise Abbema, artist	Louise Abbema print	Louise Abbema Resource File
	b. 10-30-1885 - Ezra Pound, author	Ezra Pound print	Ezra Pound Resource File

	b. 10-31-1632 - Johannes Vermeer, artist	Johannes Vermeer bio poster	Johannes Vermeer Resource File
	b. 10-31-1795 - John Keats, poet	John Keats print	John Keats Resource File
	b. 10-31-1686 - Senesino, opera singer	Senesino print	Senesino Resource File
	b. 10-31-1860 - Juliette Gordon Low	Juliette Gordon Low print	Juliette Gordon Low Resource File
	b. 10-31-1883 - Marie Laurencin, artist	Marie Laurencin print	Marie Laurencin Resource File
	b. 10-31-1896 - Ethel Waters, jazz singer	Ethel Waters poster	Ethel Waters Resource File
	b. 10-31-1932 - Katherine Paterson, author	Bridge to Terabithia print	Katherine Paterson Resource File

October Facts & Tidbits
	October, 10th month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, was the eigthth month in the Roman Calendar and has retained the Latin word octo for eight as its name.
	Astrological Signs		Astrology
	• Libra: September 23 - October 22	• Libra poster • Libra, the Scales Ecard	cardinal, air, social; "We are," partnerships, balance, grace, charm, cooperative, social, ideas, lazy, kidneys/lumbar; co-operative, fair, lazy.
	• Scopio: October 23 - November 21	• Scorpio poster • Scorpio, the Scorpion Ecard	fixed, water, social; "I desire," intense, controlling, sexual, compulsive, deep, secretive, mysterious, obsessive, genitals; passionate, sensitive, anxious.
	Birthstones
	• Opal - love & hope • Tourmaline - peace stone / dispel fear		• Birthstones: Univ of Washington • Opal Resource File • Tourmaline Resource File
	Flowers
	• calendula - sun (calendar), • [marigold] • cosmos	October's Flower, the Calendula Art Print	• Calendula Resource File
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last updated 6/28/09