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Carving a Pumpkin
Pumpkins Learn to Carve Jack-O-Lanterns
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The Pumpkin Nook – Grow, pumpkin recipes, facts, fun
Pumpkin Carving Tips and Patterns
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October 1
1207 Henry III king of England (1216-72) was born
1837 Treaty with Winnebago Indians
1885 Special delivery mail service begins in US
1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825)
1924 - Jimmy Carter Birthday was born
1958 Inauguration of NASA
1979 US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)

October 2
322BC Greek philosopher Aristotle died
1608 Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed
by Jan Lippershey
1800 Nat Turner Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion
was born
1919 Pres Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke
1950 The comic strip "Peanuts" 1st appears, in 9 newspapers
1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme
Court Justice

October 3
1789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
1863 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
1906 SOS became the international distress signal

October 4
1636 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
1822, Rutherford B. Hayes, was born
1824 Mexico becomes a republic
1957 USSR launches Sputnik I
1984 US govt closes down due to budget problems

October 5
1800 Nat Turner Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion was born
1830, Chester Arthur was born
1970 PBS becomes a network

October 6
1846 George Westinghouse responsible for alternating current in US was born
1781 Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at
Yorktown; last battle of the Revolutionary War
1949 Pres Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade.

October 7
1765 The Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY
1849, author Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore
1958 US manned space-flight project renamed Project
Mercury

October 8
1604 The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is 1st sighted
1918, Sergeant Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France.
1941 The Rev. Jesse Jackson birthday

October 9
1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
1876 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
1958, Pope Pius XII died, 19 years after he was elevated to the papacy.
1936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA
1947 1st telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane
1980 1st consumer use of home banking by computer
(Knoxville Tn)

October 10
1802 1st non Indian settlement in Oklahoma
1845, the U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md.
1874 Fiji becomes a British possession
1933 1st synthetic detergent for home use marketed
1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, accused of accepting bribes, pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned his office
1978, President Carter signed a bill authorizing the $1
Susan B. Anthony coin.

October 11
1776 Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British
1864 Slavery abolished in Maryland
1890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded
1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was
launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton
Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
1979 Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing the CAT scan
1983 Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial

October 12
1537 Edward VI king of England (1547-53) was born
1823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs)
1918 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital).
1861 Confederate ironclad Manassas attacks Union's
Richmond on Mississippi
1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General
Assembly session
1870, Gen. Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Va.
1973, President Nixon nominated House minority leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president. 

October 13
1845, Texas ratified a state constitution
1860 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston

October 14
1066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England
1633 James II king of England (1685-88) was born
1644 William Penn English Quaker & founder of PA
1834 1st black to obtain a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter
1884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
1890, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, was born in Denison, Texas.
1944, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler
1947 Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)
1960, the idea of a Peace Corps was first suggested by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to a group of students at the University of Michigan.

October 15
1789 1st presidential tour-George Washington in
New England
1846 Dr William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use
of ether
1878 Edison Electric Light Company incorporated
1914 Clayton Antitrust Act passed
1928 German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in
Lakehurst, NJ

October 16
1758 Noah Webster lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary) was born
1781 Washington takes Yorktown
1793, during the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded
1859, abolitionist John Brown led about 20 men in a raid on Harper's Ferry.
1995 - October 16. Million Man March on Washington, anywhere from 400,000 to a million black men gathered on the mall in Washington, D.C. for a Day of Atonement.

October 17
1492 Columbus sights isle of San Salvador (Watling Island, Bahamas)
1781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
1919 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created
1933, Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
1973, Arab oil-producing nations announced they would begin cutting back on oil exports to Western nations and Japan; the result -- a total embargo -- lasted until March 1974.
1986 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982

October 18
1867, the United States took formal possession of Alaska from Russia.
1931, inventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange, N.J., at age 84. Edison, Thomas - Biography

October 19
1977, the supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City.
1960 The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba
The Timetable History of Cuba

October 20
1803, the U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
Louisiana Purchase - Classroom Resources
1944, during World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur stepped ashore at Leyte in the Philippines, 21/2 years after he'd said, "I shall return." The American Experience | MacArthur
1964, the 31st president of the United States, Herbert Hoover, died in New York at age 90 Hoover, Herbert

October 22
1962, President Kennedy announced an air and naval
blockade of Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island
1836, Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first
constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas.

October 23
1973, President Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica.

October 24
1836 The match is patented.
1940, the 40-hour work week went into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Overview of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
1962, the U.S. blockade of Cuba during the missile crisis officially began under a proclamation signed by President Kennedy.

October 25
1854, the "Charge of the Light Brigade" took place during the Crimean War

October 26
1881, the Gunfight at the OK Corral took place in Tombstone, Ariz., as Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and "Doc" Holliday confronted Ike Clanton's gang.

October 27
1858, Theodore Roosevelt, was born in New York City.

October 28
1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by the 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC Statue of Liberty Facts STATUE of LIBERTY FACTS

October 29
1618 Sir Walter Raleigh is executed in London.
1929, "Black Tuesday" descended upon the New York Stock Exchange.
1969 - October 29 - Supreme Court rules that school districts must end all racial segregation.

October 30
1735, the second U.S. president, John Adams, was born in Braintree, Mass

October 31
1938, the day after his "War of the Worlds" Orson Welles broadcast had panicked radio listeners,
1926, magician Harry Houdini died . Houdini, Harry
1864 Nevada admitted as 36th state