Homemade Cookies Day

World Vegetarian Day

Henry Ford Introduced the Model T (1908)

Name Your Car Day

Peanuts Comic Strip First Published In 1950.

International Day of Non-Violence, birthday of Mohandas Ghandi (born 1869)

World Habitat Day

Child Health Day

Captain Kangaroo Day (Show first aired on this day in 1955)

SOS Established in 1906

Robert Lawson born, 1892

Donald Sobol born, 1924

Sputnik I Launched in 1957 (first space vehicle)

World Teacher Day

Gene Zion born, 1913

Ray Kroc born, 1902 (Mastermind of McDonald's franchise)

Thomas Edison Shows 1st Motion Picture In 1889.

American Library Association Founded (1876)

First Compact Disc and Player released by Sony in 1982 (Billy Joel '52nd Street')

National Denim Day

Alice Dalgliesh born, 1893

American Bandstand premiered in 1957

Rose designated as the U.S. National Flower (1986)

Edward Ormondroyd born, 1925

J. Frank Duryea born in 1869

The Great Chicago Fire started (1871)

First Two-Way Telephone Conversation in 1876

Leif Ericson Day

Moldy Cheese Day

The Count's Birthday (Sesame Street Character)

Columbus Day

Thanksgiving Day in Canada

James Marshall born, 1942

Henry Cavendish born in England in 1731.

Eleanor Roosevelt born, 1884

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

Farmer's Day

Dia de la Raza (Mexico)

National Poetry Day (England)

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

World Egg Day

Lois Lenski born, 1893

Dwight David Eisenhower (34th President) born, 1890

Grover's Birthday (Sesame Street Character)

Sweetest Day

National Grouch Day

Dictionary Day

Noah Webster born, 1758

World Food Day

Edward Ardizzone born, 1900

Black Poetry Day

San Francisco Earthquake (1989)

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)

Sir James Chadwick (Discoverer of the Neutron) born, 1891

Crockett Johnson born, 1906

Guggenheim Museum Opens (1959)

National Nut Day

Mother-in-Law's Day

iPod First Revealed (2001)

Red Ribbon Week (Oct 23-31)

Marjorie Flack born, 1897

Edison Pele Brazilian soccer player, born in 1940.

Bruno Munari born, 1907

Betty Lou's Birthday (Sesame Street Character)

National Bologna Day

United Nations Day

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)

Theodore Roosevelt born in 1858.

Emily Post (author) born, 1873

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.

Halloween

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