Cyprus gains independence from Britain (1960) - Oct. 1
E.B. White (American author best known for his children's books Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web) dies in Maine at age 86 (1985) - Oct. 1
Edgar the Peaceful (younger son of Edmund I of England) begins his reign as King of England (959) - 10/1
Gerard de Ridefort (Grand Master of the Knights Templar) is killed at the battle of Acre (1189) - Oct. 1
International Day of Older Persons - Oct. 1
Julie Andrews (Multi-award-winning English actress, singer, author and icon) is born (1934) - Oct. 1
Los Angeles Times bombing was the purposeful dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building in Los Angeles, CA (1910) - Oct. 1
Mensa International is founded (1946) - Oct. 1
Abdel Nasser's (President of Egypt) funeral results in scores of mourners being crushed or battered to death in the crowd (1970) - Oct. 1
China - National Day of the People's Republic of China (1949) - Oct. 1
Nigeria - Indpendence from Britain is declared and recognized (1960)
World Vegetarian Day - Oct. 1
World Communion Day - First Sunday in October (2017) - Oct. 1
Ashura (10th day of Muharram in the Islamic Calendar commemorated as a day of mourning since 680) date varies due to Muslim Calendar (2017) - Oct. 1
October 2, 2017
Amish School Shooting occured when Charles Carl Roberts shot and killed five school girls before killing himself (2006) - Oct. 2
The Ethan Allen (a 40-foot, glass enclosed tour boat on Lake George) capsized and sank just south of Cramer Point (2005) - Oct. 2
Guinea declares its independence from France (1958) - Oct. 2
The Prelature of Opus Dei (a controversial prelature of the Catholic Church) is founded by Josemaria Escriva (1928) - Oct. 2
Arizona Floods - Santa Cruz - View of Saint Mary's Bridge looking south (1983) - Oct. 2
Lake Mead, AZ (largest man-made reservoir and lake in America) a 10 year drought brings it only 20 feet above the level where the federal gov't will intervene (2009) - 10/2
Mahatma Ghandi Day - his birthday is celebrated in India (1869) - Oct. 2
Peanuts (a syndicated daily and Sunday comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz) is first published (1950) - Oct. 2
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States (1967) - Oct. 2
Woodrow Wilson (28th President of the USA) suffers a massive stroke while President that partially paralyzes him while still in office (1919) - Oct. 2
Siege of Jerusalem ends as Saladin (Sultan of Egypt and Syria) takes control of the city that had been under crusader rule for 88 years (1187) - 10/2
Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 was hijacked and crash landed at the former Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport total of 128 fatalities (1990) - Oct. 2
Child Health Day - 1st Monday in October (2016) - Oct. 2
World Habitat Day - 1st Monday in October (2017) - Oct. 2
October 3, 2017
Buffalo Wings are reportedly first fixed and served at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, NY (1964) - Oct. 3
Elisabeth of Valois (daughter of Catherine de Medici and consort to Philip II of Spain) dies in childbirth along with her newborn son (1568) - Oct. 3
US Revenue Act (aka Tariff Act, Underwood Act) re-imposed the federal income tax following ratification of the 16th Amendment (1913) - Oct. 3
German Reunification Day celebrates when the 5 states of the GDR (East Germany) joing the FDR (West Germany) united into a single city-state (1990) - 10/3
German V2 Rocket test flight launched the first rocket to reach space, though sub-orbital (1942) - Oct. 3
Iraq gains independence from Britain (1932) - Oct. 3
Mickey Mouse Club premieres on ABC (1955) - Oct. 3
O.J. Simpson receives a jury verdict of "Not Guilty" after a televised trial that began in January (1995) - Oct. 3
Roy Horn is born (1944) - Oct. 3
Roy Horn, of Sigfried and Roy, was bitten on the neck by Montecore, a tiger he'd raised from a cub on his 41st birthday (2003) - Oct. 3
STS-51-J (NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis's maiden flight) launches (1985) - Oct. 3
Thanksgiving Day is declared, by President Lincoln, to be a national holiday celebrated on the 4th Thursday of November (1863) - 10/3
Bobby Thomson (Baseball - N.Y. Giants) hits the "Shot Heard 'Round the World game-ending pennant playoff series home run hit off of Brooklyn Dodgers Ralph Branca (1951) - Oct. 3
Dafydd ap Gruffudd (last native prince of Wales) becomes the first person known to be executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered (1283) - Oct. 3
October 4, 2017
10-4 (CB Radio) Day - Oct. 4
Anne Rice (American author best known for her Vampire chronicles series) is born as Howard Allen O'Brien (1941) - Oct. 4
Belgium declares its independence from the Netherlands (1830) - Oct. 4
Eastern Airlines Flight 375 encountered a flock of starlings - engines 1, 2 and 4 stalled and the plane crashed into Winthrop Bay, 62 died (1960) - Oct. 4
El Al Flight 1862 (A 747 freighter) lost both its engines while taking off and crashed into an apartment building - killing 47 people (1992) - 10/4
Janis Joplin (American singer, songwriter and music arranger) died from a drug overdose at age 27 (1970) - Oct. 4
Morgan Depot (located in the Morgan area of Sayreville, NJ) explodes triggering a fire and subsequent explosions which continued for 3 days (1918) - Oct. 4
The Orient Express makes its first run from Paris to Giurgiu Romania via Munich and Vienna (1883) - Oct. 4
Otto IV is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Innocent III (1209) - Oct. 4
Saint Francis of Assisi died at the Porziuncola in Italy on October 3rd - his feast day is celebrated the day after (1226) - Oct. 4
Secretariat (American racehorse - winner of the 1973 Triple Crown) is euthanized due to an incurable case of laminitis (1989) - 10/4
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 is mistakenly struck by a Ukranian missile during a test and crashed into the Black Sea, all 78 aboard perished (2001) - 10/4
Moon Festival (Mid-Autumn Festival-East Asian) dates back over 3,000 years to moon worship-held on 15th day of 8th month in Chinese Calendar (2017) - 10/4
Sukkot - Jewish Feast of Tabernacles held 15th day of Tishrei (2017) - 10/4
October 5, 2017
Ashgabat earthquake (magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Turkmenistan, then the Soviet Union) leveled the area causing more than 176,000 deaths (1948) - Oct. 5
Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant (stationed of the shore of Lake Erie in MI) suffers a partial meltdown (1966) - Oct. 5
The first presidential address telecast from the White House is given by President Harry S Truman (1947) - Oct. 5
Hollywood Black Friday is when a 6-month strike by set decorators boiled over into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Bros studios (1945) - Oct. 5
The Ladbroke Grove Rail crash occurred when at Ladbroke Grove Junction 2 miles west of London Paddington Station killing 31 (1999) - Oct. 5
Portugal celebrates Republic Day (overthrow of the Monarchy-1910) - 10/5
Monty Python's Flying Circus premieres on BBC (1969) - 10/5
Robert Stevens (photo editor for the Florida based tabloid, Sun) dies, becoming the first fatally linked to the anthrax attacks in the US (2001) - Oct. 5
Tom Ridge resigns as Governor of PA to become President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor (2001) - Oct. 5
The Women's March on Versailles (an event in the French Revoltion) was prompted by rumors that the royals were hoarding all the grain (1789) - Oct. 5
Steve Jobs (American businessman and CEO of Apple, Inc.) dies in his Palo Alto, CA home from pancreatic cancer at age 56 only six weeks after he resigned from Apple (2011) - 10/5
World Teachers' Day commemorates teachers' organisations worldwide (1994) - 10/5
October Full Moon
October 6, 2017
Alfred Lord Tennyson (Poet Laureate of the UK) died (1892) - Oct. 6
Anwar Sadat (3rd President of Egypt) is assassinated during the annual victory parade in Cairo (1981) - Oct. 6
German-American Day celebrates German heritage in the USA - Oct. 6
Biscuit Day - Oct. 6
Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead begins ending with 53 deaths and hundreds injured (1854) - Oct. 6
The Jazz Singer (the first prominent talking movie) premieres (1927) - Oct. 6
Cubana Flight 455 (Barbados to Jamaica) is brought down by a terrorist attack with all 73 people on board killed (1976) - Oct. 6
Physician Assistant Day - 10/6
Massacre of Students demonstrating against the return to Thailand of Field Marshall Thanom Kitticachorn (1976) - Oct. 6
October 7, 2017
American Bandstand premieres on a Philadelphia television station (WFIL-TV-1952) - Oct. 7
Bathtub Day - Oct. 7
Edgar Allan Poe died four days after being found delirious on the streets of Baltimore (1849) - Oct. 7
Frappe Day - Oct. 7
Gray Davis was recalled as the Governor of California in a special election that was the 1st gubernatorial recall in CA and 2nd in the US (2003) - Oct. 7
Great Flood of 1993 ends in St. Louis (103 days after it began) when the Mississippi River finally falls beneath flood stage (1993) - Oct. 7
KLM Airlines was founded, making it the oldest carrier in the world still operating under its original name (1919) - Oct. 7
Luna-3 (USSR Probe) provides 1st pictures of the far side of the moon (1959) - Oct. 7
Sophie Dorthea of Wurtternberg marries Paul I of Russia (1776) - Oct. 7
Miramichi Fire was a massive forest fire in New Brunswick, Canada that destroyed over 1000 homes and killed 300 people (1825) - Oct. 7
US Invasion of Afghanistan, launched in response to Sept. 11, begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground (2001) - Oct. 7
William II becomes King of the Netherlands on his father's abdication (1840) - Oct. 7
October 8, 2017
Empress Myeong-Seong of Korea (the first official wife of King Gojong) is murdered in her palace by sword-bearing Japanese assassins (1895) - Oct. 8
Kashmir Earthquake (7.6 to 7.7 on the Richter Scale) reached a death toll of 79,000 (2005) - Oct. 8
Rail Disaster at Harrow and Wealdstone (a double collision involving 3 trains) results in 112 people dying and 340 injured (1952) - Oct. 8
Clergy Appreciation Day - 2nd Sunday in October (2017) - 10/8
Childrens' Day - 2nd Sunday in October (2017) - Oct. 8
Karva Chauth - A Hindu festival in which married women fast from sunrise to moonrise for the safety and longevity of their husbands (2017) - 10/8
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