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	Mary Cassatt	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		Giacomo Barazzi da Vignola Resource File
	b. 10-1-1847 - Annie Besant, activist		Annie Besant Resource File
	b. 10-1-1903 - Vladimir Horowitz, pianist		Vladimir Horowitz Resource File
	b. 10-1-1924 - Jimmy Carter, 39th US President		White House Bio - Carter

	b. 10-2-1718 - Elizabeth Montagu, social reformer		Elizabeth Montagu Resource File
	b. 10-2-1851 - Marshal Ferdinand Foch, military WWI		Ferdinand Foch Resource File
	b. 10-2-1869 - Mahatma Gandhi, activist & humanitarian		CP Links for Learning - Gandhi
	b. 10-2-1871 - Cordell Hull, Nobel Peace Prize		Cordell Hull Resource File
	b. 10-2-1904 - Graham Greene, author		Graham Greene Resource File

	b. 10-3-1790 - John Ross, Cherokee		John Ross Resource File
	b. 10-3-1858 - Eleonora Duse, actress		Eleonora Duse Resource File
	b. 10-3-1862 - Alice B. Woodward, artist		Alice B. Woodward Resource File
	b. 10-3-1867 - Pierre Bonnard, artist		Pierre Bonnard Resource File
	b. 10-3-1900 - Thomas Wolfe, author		Thomas Wolfe Resource File

	b. 10-4-1814 - Jean-François Millet, artist		Jean-François Millet Resource File
	b. 10-4-1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US President		White House Bio - Hayes

	b. 10-5-1703 - Jonathan Edwards, theologian		Jonathan Edwards Resource File
	d. 10-5-1813 - Tecumseh, war chief		Tecumseh Resource File
	b. 10-5-1829 - Chester Alan Arthur, 21st US President		White House Bio - Arthur
	b. 10-5-1882 - Robert M. Goddard, scientist		Robert M. Goddard Resource File
	b. 10-5-1959 - Maya Lin, architect, Vietnam War Memorial		Maya Lin Resource File

	b. 10-6-1552 - Matteo Ricci, Jesuit missionary		Matteo Ricci Resource File
	b. 10-6-1820 - Jenny Lind, singer		Jenny Lind Resource File
	b. 10-6-1846 - George Westinghouse, industrialist		George Westinghouse Resource File
	b. 10-6-1887 - Le Corbusier, architect		Le Corbusier Resource File
	b. 10-6-1887 - Maria Jeritza, opera singer		Maria Jeritza Resource File
	b. 10-6-1906 - Janet Gaynor, actress		Janet Gaynor Resource File
	b. 10-6-1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, explorer		Thor Heyerdahl Resource File
	b. 10-6-1917 - Fannie Lou Hamer, activist		Fannie Lou Hamer Resource File

	b. 10-7-1675 - Rosalba Carriera, artist		Rosalba Carriera Resource File
	b. 10-7-1728 - Caesar Rodney, Revolutionary War		Caesar Rodney Resource File
	b. 10-7-1849 - James Whitcomb Riley, poet		James Whitcomb Riley Resource File
	b. 10-7-1885 - Niels Bohr, physicist		Niels Bohr Resource File
	b. 10-7-1934 - June Allyson, dancer & actress		June Allyson Resource File
	b. 10-7-1934 - Amiri Baraka, poet & playwright		Amiri Baraka Resource File
	b. 10-7-1966 - Sherman Alexie, author		Sherman Alexie Resource File

	b. 10-8-1807 - Harriet Taylor Mill, women's rights		Harriet Taylor Mill Resource File
	b. 10-8-1930 - Faith Ringgold, artist		Faith Ringgold Resource File
	b. 10-8-1941 - Jesse Jackson, political activist		CP Links for Learning - Jackson

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

	d. 10-10-1659 - Abel Janszoom Tasman, explorer		Abel Janszoom Tasman Resource File
	b. 10-10-1731 - Henry Cavendish, scientist		Henry Cavendish Resource File
	b. 10-10-1813 - Guiseppe Verdi, composer		Guiseppe Verdi Resource File
	b. 10-10-1858 - Maurice Prendergast, artist		Maurice Prendergast Resource File
	b. 10-10-1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, explorer		Fridtjof Nansen Resource File
	b. 10-10-1900 - Helen Hayes, actress		Helen Hayes Resource File
	b. 10-10-1917 - Thelonious Monk, musician		Thelonious Monk Resource File

	b. 10-11-1872 - Emily Wilding Davison, suffragette		Emily Davison Resource File
	b. 10-11-1872 - Harlan F. Stone, Supreme Court Justice		Harlan F. Stone Resource File
	b. 10-11-1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady, human rights activist		CP Links for Learning - Roosevelt

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

	b. 10-13-1853 - Lillie Langtry, opera singer		Lillie Langtry Resource File
	b. 10-13-1862 - Mary Henrietta Kingsley, author		Mary Henrietta Kingsley Resource File
	b. 10-13-1901 - Edith Spurlock Sampson, activist		Edith Spurlock Sampson Resource File
	b. 10-13-1902 - Arna Bontemps, poet & educator		Arna Bontemps Resource File
	b. 10-13-1909 - Art Tatum, jazz musician		Art Tatum Resource File
	b. 10-13-1925 - Margaret Thatcher, politician		Margaret Thatcher Resource File

	b. 10-14-1718 - William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania		William Penn Resource File
	b. 10-14-1824 - Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, painter		Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli Resource File
	b. 10-14-1882 - Éamonn de Valera, Irish revolutionary		Éamonn de Valera Resource File
	b. 10-14-1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President		White House Bio - Eisenhower
	b. 10-14-1893 - Lillian Gish, actress		Lillian Gish Resource File
	b. 10-14-1894 - e. e. cummings, poet		E. E. Cumming's Life
	10-14-1947 - Chuck Yaeger breaks the sound barrier		Chuck Yeager Resource File

	b. 10-15-70BC - Virgil, poet		Virgil Resource File
	b. 10-15-1608 - Evangelista Torricelli, physicist		Evangelista Torricelli Resource File
	b. 10-15-1831 - Isabella Bird Bishop, traveller		Isabella Bird Bishop Resource File
	b. 10-15-1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher		Friedrich Nietzsche Resource File
	b. 10-15-1880 - Marie Stopes, MD, activist & scientist		Marie Stopes Resource File
	b. 10-15-1917 - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian		Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Resource File
	b. 10-15-1997 - Cassini-Hugyens launched		NASA/ESA/ASI

	d. 10-16-1555 - Hugh Latimer & Nicholas Ridley, martyrs		The Oxford Martyrs Resource File
	b. 10-16-1758 - Noah Webster, Dictionary Day		Noah Webster House Museum
	b. 10-16-1854 - Oscar Wilde, poet & playwright
	b. 10-16-1874 - Oscar Mueller, artist		Oscar Mueller Resource File
	b. 10-16-1888 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright		Eugene O'Neill Resource File
	b. 10-16-1898 - William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice		William O. Douglas Resource File
	b. 10-16-1927 - Günter Grass, author		Gunter Grass Resource File
	b. 10-16-1928 - Mary Daly, activist theologian & educator		Mary Daly Resource File

	b. 10-17-1711 - Jupiter Hammon, poet		Jupiter Hammon Resource File
	b. 10-17-1864 - Elinor Glyn, novelist & scripwriter		Elinor Glyn Resource File
	b. 10-17-1900 - Jean Arthur, actress		Jean Arthur Resource File
	b. 10-17-1915 - Arthur Miller, playwright		Arthur Miller Resource File
	b. 10-17-1956 - Mae Jemison, astronaut		Mae Jemison Resource File

	b. 10-18-1616 - Nicholas Culpeper, physician, herbalist		Nicholas Culpeper Resource File
	b. 10-18-1859 - Henri Bergson, philosopher		Henri Bergson Resource File
	b. 10-18-1898 - Lotte Lenya, actress		Lotte Lenya Resource File
	b. 10-18-1961 - Wynton Marsalis, musician		Wynton Marsalis Resource File

	b. 10-19-1885 - Fannie Hurst, poet & critic		Fannie Hurst Resource File

	b. 10-20-1632 - Christopher Wren, architect		Christopher Wren Resource File
	b. 10-20-1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, poet		Arthur Rimbaud Resource File
	b. 10-20-1859 - John Dewey, philosopher		John Dewey books at Amazon.com
	b. 10-20-1885 - “Jelly Roll” Morton, musician		Jelly Roll Morton Resource File
	b. 10-20-1901 - Adelaide Hall, dancer, actress, singer		Adelaide Hall Resource File

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

	b. 10-22-1811 - Franz Liszt, composer & pianist		Franz Liszt Resource File
	b. 10-22-1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, actress		Sarah Bernhardt Links for Learning
	b. 10-22-1903 - George W. Beadle, biochemist		George W. Beadle Resource File

	b. 10-24-1632 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek		Anton van Leeuwenhoek Resource File
	b. 10-24-1788 - Sarah Josepha Hale, author & editor		Sarah Josepha Hale Resource File
	b. 10-24-1830 - Belva A. Lockwood, activist		Belva Lockwood Resource File
	10-24-1945 - United Nations Established - peace posters		United Nations Official Site

	d. 10-25-1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer, author		Geoffrey Chaucer Resource File
	b. 10-25-1825 - Johann Strauss II, composer		Johann Strauss II Resource File
	b. 10-25-1838 - Georges Bizet, composer		Georges Bizet Resource File
	b. 10-25-1881 - Pablo Picasso, Spain		CP Links for Learning - Picasso
	b. 10-25-1888 - Richard E. Byrd, explorer		Richard E. Byrd Resource File
	b. 10-25-1902 - Henry Steele Commager, author		Henry Steele Commager Resource File
	b. 10-25-1914 - John Berryman, poet		John Berryman Resource File

	b. 10-26-1797 - Giuditta Pasta, opera singer		Giuditta Pasta Resource File
	b. 10-26-1911 - Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer		Mahalia Jackson Resource File
	b. 10-26-1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, former 1st Lady and presidental candidate; US Secretary of State		Hillary Rodham Clinton Resource File

	b. 10-27-1466 - Eramus, theologian		Eramus Resource File
	b. 10-27-1728 - Capt. James Cook, explorer		James Cook Resource File
	b. 10-27-1736 - James Macpherson, author		James Macpherson Resource File
	b. 10-27-1782 - Niccolò Paganini, composer		Niccolò Paganini Resource File
	b. 10-27-1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, US President		White House Bio Theodore Roosevelt
	b. 10-27-1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, artist		Roy Lichtenstein Resource File
	b. 10-27-1924 - Ruby Dee, actress, poet, activist		Ruby Dee Resource File
	b. 10-27-1932 - Sylvia Plath, author		Sylvia Plath Resource File
	b. 10-27-1940 - Maxine Hong Kingston, author		CP Links for Learning - Maxine Hong Kingston

	b. 10-28-1697 - Giovanni Antonio Canal “Canaletto”, artist		Canaletto Resource File
	10-28-1793 - Cotton Gin Invented		Cotton Gin Reource File
	b. 10-28-1846 - Auguste Escoffier, chef		Auguste Escoffier Resource File
	10-28-1886 - Statue of Liberty Dedicated		Statue of Liberty National Park Serv
	b. 10-28-1886 - Joan Plowright, actress		Joan Plowright Resource File

	d. 10-29-1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer		Sir Walter Raleigh Resource File
	b. 10-29-1740 - James Boswell, author		James Boswell Resource File
	10-29-1929 - Wall Street Crash		Wall Street Crash Resource File

	b. 10-30-1735 - John Adams, US President		White House Bio - John Adams
	b. 10-30-1741 - Angelica Kauffmann, artist		Angelica Kauffmann Resource File
	b. 10-30-1751 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, author		Richard Brinsley Sheridan Resource File
	b. 10-30-1853 - Andre-Charles Messager, composer		Andre-Charles Messager Resource File
	b. 10-30-1857 - Gertrude Atherton, author		Gertrude Atherton Resource File
	b. 10-30-1858 - Louise Abbema, artist		Louise Abbema Resource File
	b. 10-30-1885 - Ezra Pound, author		Ezra Pound Resource File
	b. 10-30-1894 - Jean Rostand, biologist, natural philosopher		Jean Rostand Resource File

	b. 10-31-1632 - Johannes Vermeer, artist		Johannes Vermeer Resource File
	b. 10-31-1795 - John Keats, poet		John Keats Resource File
	b. 10-31-1686 - Senesino, opera singer		Senesino Resource File
	b. 10-31-1860 - Juliette Gordon Low, founder Girl Scouts		Juliette Gordon Low Resource File
	b. 10-31-1883 - Marie Laurencin, artist		Marie Laurencin Resource File
	b. 10-31-1896 - Ethel Waters, jazz singer		Ethel Waters Resource File
	b. 10-31-1932 - Katherine Paterson, author		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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