October Events Calendar for Educators

Homemade Cookies Day

World Vegetarian Day

Henry Ford Introduced the Model T - 1908

National Denim Day

Name Your Car Day

Peanuts Comic Strip First Published In 1950.

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

SOS Established Designated as international distress code in 1906.

Robert Lawson

Donald Sobol

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

World Habitat Day (1st Monday)

Child Health Day (1st Monday)

Gene Zion

Ray Kroc Mastermind of McDonald's franchise. Born in 1902.

Crockett Johnson

Thomas Edison Shows 1st Motion Picture In 1889.

American Library Association Founded - 1876

Alice Dalgliesh

American Bandstand Premiered In 1957.

The rose became the U.S. National Flower - 1986

National Poetry Day (England)

Edward Ormondroyd

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

The Great Chicago Fire started - 1871

First Two-Way Telephone Conversation In 1876.

Leif Ericson Day

Moldy Cheese Day

The Count Sesame Street Character.

James Marshall

Henry Cavendish Born in England in 1731.

Eleanor Roosevelt Born in born 1884.

First Steam-Powered Ferryboat 'Juliana' began operations in 1811.

Columbus Day

Thanksgiving Day in Canada

Farmer's Day

Dia de la Raza (Mexico)

Margaret Thatcher Born in 1925.

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

Molly Pitcher (Revolutionary War Heroine) - 1754

Lois Lenski

Dwight David Eisenhower (34th President) - 1890

Grover Sesame Street Character.

National Grouch Day

Dictionary Day

Noah Webster - 1758

World Food Day

Edward Ardizzone

Sweetest Day

Black Poetry Day

San Francisco Earthquake - 1989

Little Orphan Annie Comic strip character, in 1922.

Mason-Dixon Line Established - 1767

Puerto Rico Became U.S. Colony In 1898.

Ed Emberley

Star Spangled Banner First Sung In 1814.

Thomas Edison Demonstrated Electric Light Successfully in 1879.

Final battle of the Revolutionary War - 1781

Sir James Chadwick (Discoverer of the Neutron) - 1891

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

National Nut Day

Marjorie Flack

Edison Pele Brazilian soccer player, born in 1940.

Bruno Munari

Betty Lou Sesame Street Character.

National Bologna Day

United Nations Day

Mother-in-Law's Day

Pablo Picasso Born in Spain in 1881.

Leonard Kessler

Hilary Rodham Clinton Born In 1947.

International Red Cross Organized In Geneva, Switzerland in 1863.

Erie Canal Opened - 1825

Theodore Roosevelt Born in 1858.

Plush Animal Lover's Day

Statue of Liberty Dedicated in 1886.

Stock Market Crash - 1929

John Adams Born in 1735.

Emily Post (author) - 1873

Halloween

Juliette Gordon Low Born in 1860, she started Girl Scouting in the United States in 1912.