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this month is:
special weeks:
major holidays:
special days &
historical:
    -Adopt-A-Pet Month
-Auto Battery Safety Month
-Campaign for Healthier Babies Month
-Computer Learning Month
-Consumer Information Month
-Cookbook Month
-Country Music Month
-Crime Prevention Month
-Domestic Violence Month
-Energy Awareness Month
-Fire Prevention Month
-Hunger Awareness Month
-Mental Illness Awareness Month
-National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
-National Cosmetology Month
-National Dental Hygiene Month
-National Pasta Month
-National Pizza Festival Month
-National Quality Month
-Gourmet Adventures Month
-International Doll Collectors Month
-International Marine Travel Month
-Museum Month
-National Adopt-A-Shelter-Dog Month
-National Family Sexuality Month
-National Popcorn Poppin' Month
-National Restaurant-Hospitality Month
-National Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome Awareness Month
-National Pork Month
-National Seafood Month
-National UNICEF Month
-National Youth Against Tobacco Month
-Spectacle of the Geese Month
-Spina Bifida Month
-Stamp Collecting Month
-National Pretzel Month
-National Clock Month
-Month of the Hedgehog
-Vegetarian Awareness Month
-Family History Month
-International Book Fair Month
-Lupus Awareness Month
-National AIDS Awareness Month
-National Communicate With Your Kid Month
-National Depression Education
and Awareness Month
-National Dessert Month
-National Disability Employment
Awareness Month
-National Family Sexuality Education Month
-National Health Care Food Service Month
-National Infertility Awareness Month
-National Kitchen and Bath Month
-National Sarcastic Awareness Month
-Polish American Heritage Month
-National Car Care Month


MOVABLE DATES:
A Sunday in Chicago:
Chicago Marathon

Second Monday in October:
Columbus Day

1st Sunday
Grandparent's Day

1st Monday
Child Health Day
Universal Children's Day (UN)
World Habitat Day (UN)

2nd Monday
Discoverer's Day
Thanksgiving Day (Canada)
Columbus Day observed (US)
Virgin Islands-Puerto Rico Friendship Day

2nd Wednesday
International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction (UN)

2nd Thursday
National Dessert Day

2nd Saturday
America's Sexy Wives Contest

3rd Sunday
Boss' Day

3rd Monday
Hurricane Thanksgiving Day (Virgin Islands)

3rd Saturday
Sweetest Day
Mother-in-Law Day

Last Sunday
Standard Time resumes; turn back your clock at 2:00 a.m. (Confirm this.)

Oktoberfest Beer Festivals (US)

Mid-October
World Series of Baseball begins (US, Canada)

  FIRST WEEK
-October l, Netscape lst Beta Web Browser Released
-October l, first Tonight Show aired
-Newspaper Week (Japan)
-Get Organized Week
-National Higher Education Week
-Universal Children's Week
-Minority Enterprise Week
-National Spinning & Weaving Week
-National Customer Service Week
-Mental Illness Awareness Week
-National Health Care Food Service Week
-National Schoolbus Safety Week
-National Temp Help Week
-National Remanufacturing Week
-National Port Week (begins 1st Wed)

SECOND WEEK
-American Beer Week
-National Metric Week
-Fire Prevention Week
-National School Lunch Week
-National Business Woman's Week
-National Pet Peeve Week
-Home-Based Business Week
-National Pasta Week
-National Newspaper Week
-National Employ the Handicapped Week
-National 4-H Week
-International Letter Writing Week
-National Bookkeeper's Week
-National Respect Life Week
-National Fashion Week

THIRD WEEK
-
National Kraut Sandwich Week
-Credit Union Week
-National Pickled Pepper Week
-Getting the World to Beat a Path to Your Door Week
-Peace With Justice Week
-National YMCA Teen Week
-National Forest Products Week
-Bible Week
-National Business Women's Week
-International Pinball Week

FOURTH WEEK
-National Magic Week
Peace
-Friendship and Good Will Week
-National Cleaner Air Week
-National Hug-A-Vending Machine Week
-National Forest Products Week
-Toastmaster's Week
-National Consumers Week
-National Save Your Back Week
-Disarmament
Week (24th-30th)

 

  October 31
Halloween
  October 1
World Vegetation Day
Universal Children's Day
International Day for the Elderly
US Fiscal Year begins

October 2
Old Man's Day (Hertfordshire, UK)
Name Your Car Day
World Farm Animals Day
National French Fried Scallops Day
Book It/National Young Reader's Day

October 3
-Feast of Free Spirits
-Child Health Day
-Virus Appreciation Day
-Dog Day
-National Carmel Custard Day
-Goose Fair (Nottingham, U.K.)

October 4
Sputnik launched by USSR, 1958

October 6
National German-American Day
National PA (Physician's Assistant) Day

October 8
National Depression Screening Day

October 9
John Lennon birthday, 1940 (died December 8, 1980)

October 10
World Mental Health Day
National Dessert Day

October 11
Columbus Day - Observed on a Monday (check date)
Thanksgiving Day (Canada)
National Coming Out Day
Bill & Hillary Clinton anniversary, 1975

October 12
Columbus Day - Observed on a Monday (Confirm the date)

October 14
Peace Corps birthday, 1960

October 16
Dictionary Day, Noah Webster's birthday
Maintenance Personnel Day
Marie ANtointette executed, 1793
National Boss Day
U.N. World FooD Day

October 17
Black Poetry Day
UN International Day for Eradication of Poverty

October 18
(Canada) Persons Day, 1929 ruling declared women are persons in Canada

October 20
National Shut-in Visitation Day

October 21
Anniversary of incandescent lamp dem by Thomas Edison, 1879

October 23
TV Talk Show Host Day

October 24
United Nations Day

October 25
Cartoonists against Crime Day

October 29
Stock market crashed, 1929

October 30

War of the Worlds broadcast, 1938

October 31
Halloween

 
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