Oct. 1Oct. 1
1924 Jimmy Carter (39th US President)
1971 Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States
Oct. 2Oct. 21869 Mohandas K Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), pacifist
1535 Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal
Oct. 3Oct. 31605 Li Tzu-ch'eng Chinese
revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor
1920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
Oct. 4Oct. 4
1822 Rutherford B Hayes (R) 19th pres (1877-81)
1648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
Oct. 5Oct. 51830 Chester Alan Arthur (R)
21st Pres (1881-85)
1813 Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
Oct. 6Oct. 6
1824 Henry Chadwick, developed 1st rule book for baseball
1889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
Oct. 7Oct. 7
1968 Toni Braxton (singer)
1916 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided victory in American college football
Oct .8Oct .8
1970 Matt Damon (actor)
1871 Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4 sq. miles of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation
Oct. 9Oct. 9
• 1547 Miguel de Cervantes novelist (Don Quixote)
• 1876 1st 2-way telephone conversation
Oct. 10Oct. 10
• 1830 Queen Isabella II Queen of Spain (1833-68)
• 1845 The Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
Oct. 11Oct. 11
• 1884 Eleanor Roosevelt 1st lady
• 1932 1st political telecast(Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC
Oct. 12Oct. 12
1798 Pedro I 1st emperor of Brazil (1822-31)
1968 19th modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City
Oct. 14Oct. 141890 Dwight David 'Ike' Eisenhower
(5-star U.S. army general)
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed
Oct. 15Oct. 15
1959 Emeril Lagasse (chef)
1860 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard
Oct. 16Oct. 16
1758 Noah Webster (Webster's Dictionary)
1829 Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)
Oct. 18Oct. 18
1919 Pierre Elliot Trudeau 15th Canadian PM (1968-79, 1980-84)
1892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)
Oct. 19Oct. 19
1868 Bertha Landes 1st woman elected mayor of a major US city (Seattle)
1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends
Oct. 20Oct. 20
1874 Viscount Palmerston (Whig) British PM (1855-65)
1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
Oct. 21Oct. 21
1833 Alfred Nobel (philanthropist)
1944 US troops capture Aachen, first large German city to fall
Oct. 22Oct. 221911 Curly Howard (Jerry
Horwitz) (the Three Stooges)
1962 JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis
Oct. 23Oct. 23
• 1925 Johnny Carson, comedian (Tonight Show)
• 1941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
Oct. 24Oct. 24
1788 Sarah Josepha Hale author (Mary Had a Little Lamb)
1931 George Washington Bridge connecting NY to NJ opens
Oct. 25Oct. 25
1967 Julia Roberts, actress
1764 John Adams marries Abigail Smith (marriage lasts 54 years)
Oct. 26Oct. 26
1879 Leon Trotsky Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet)
1825 Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened
Oct. 28Oct. 28
1914 Dr. Jonas Salk (medical researcher, cure for polio)
1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints
Oct. 29Oct. 29
1947 Richard Dreyfuss (actor- Jaws, TV Narrator)
1945 The first ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it was patented
Oct. 30Oct. 30
1735 John Adams, 2nd pres (1797-1801)
1938 Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds"