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- #: Monthly stuff
- 10:National Sarcastics Month
- #: Events depending on weekdays
- F(10/14):National Bookkeeper's Day (2nd Friday).
- #: Normal events
- 10/1/1785 :1st city directory in US published (Philadelphia).
- 10/2/1920 :Last major league triple header played (Forbes Field).
- 10/3/1899 :Motor-driven vacuum cleaner patented.
- 10/4/1890 :Mormons renounced polygamy.
- 10/5/1979 :Charlie Smith, oldest American (137 yrs), died.
- 10/6/1866 :1st US train robbery ($13,000 - Reno bros.).
- 10/7/1849 :Edgar Allen Poe, author, died.
- 10/8/1871 :Great Chicago Fire broke out (300 killed).
- 10/9/1855 :Calliope patented (J. Stoddard).
- 10/10/1886 :Tuxedo introduced (Griswold Lorillard).
- 10/11/1922 :1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson).
- 10/12/1609 :"Three Blind Mice" first published.
- 10/13/1792 :Cornerstone laid for "President's Palace" (now known as White
- :House).
- 10/14 :Frump Day.
- 10/15 :National Grouch Day.
- 10/16/1916 :1st birth control clinic opened (Brooklyn, NY by Margaret Sanger).
- 10/17/1918 :Last ship sunk by a U-boat in WWI (SS Lucia).
- 10/18/1867 :Alaska transferred from Russia to the US.
- 10/19/1864 :Northernmost engagement of Civil War (St. Albans, VT).
- 10/20/1818 :49th parallel established as the border between US and Canada.
- 10/21/1959 :Guggenheim Museum opened.
- 10/22/-2137:1st recorded solar eclipse (China).
- 10/23 :Swallows leave San Juan Capistrano.
- 10/24/1836 :Match patented (A. Phillips).
- 10/25/1825 :1st man-made waterway opened (Erie Canal).
- 10/26/1881 :Shootout at the O.K. Corral.
- 10/27/1938 :DuPont announced invention of Nylon.
- 10/28/1636 :Harvard College (now Harvard University) founded.
- 10/29/1872 :All-metal windmill patented (J.S. Risdon, Genoa, IL).
- 10/30/1888 :Ball point pen patented (John J. Loud).
- 10/31/1926 :Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weisz), magician & escape artist, died.
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