First Compact Disc and Player released by Sony in 1982 (Billy Joel '52nd Street')
Name Your Car Day
Peanuts Comic Strip First Published In 1950.
International Day of Non-Violence, birthday of Mohandas Ghandi (born 1869)
Alice Dalgliesh born, 1893
American Bandstand premiered in 1957
Rose designated as the U.S. National Flower (1986)
First Two-Way Telephone Conversation in 1876
Moldy Cheese Day
The Count's Birthday (Sesame Street Character)
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
National Poetry Day (England)
Lois Lenski born, 1893
Dwight David Eisenhower (34th President) born, 1890
Grover's Birthday (Sesame Street Character)
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.
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)
Guggenheim Museum Opens (1959)
iPod First Revealed (2001)
Red Ribbon Week (Oct 23-31)
Marjorie Flack born, 1897
Edison Pele Brazilian soccer player, born in 1940.
Pablo Picasso Born in Spain in 1881.
Hillary Rodham Clinton born, 1947.
International Red Cross Organized In Geneva, Switzerland in 1863.
Erie Canal Opened (1825)
Bill Gates born, 1955
Plush Animal Lover's Day
Statue of Liberty dedicated in 1886.
Leonard Kessler born, 1921
Stock Market Crash (1929)
John Adams born in 1735.