This Month's Interactive Fun Facts Calendar

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	1 Child Health Day Henry Ford Introduced the Model T (1908)	2 Peanuts Comic Strip Debuted (1950)	3 East and West Germany United (1990)	4 Oct. 4-10 World Space Week	5 World Teacher's Day	6 Thomas Edison Showed First Motion Picture (1889)
7 Carbon Paper Patented (1806) Oct. 7-13 Fire Prevention Week Metric Week	8 Columbus Day Great Fire of Chicago Started (1871)	9 Leif Erikson Day	10 Pac-Man Arcade Game Released (1979)	11 Eleanor Roosevelt's Birthday (1884)	12 Columbus Landed in Bahamas (1492)	13 Navy Day
14 Martin Luther King Jr. Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1964) Oct. 14-20 Teen Read Week	15 White Cane Safety Day Oct. 15-19 School Bus Safety Week	16 Dictionary Day World Food Day	17 Black Poetry Day International Day for Ending Poverty	18 Alaska Purchased from Russia (1867)	19 Last Major Battle of American Revolution Ended (1781)	20 Senate Ratified Louisiana Purchase (1803)
21 Apple Day Thomas Edison Invented Light bulb (1879) Oct. 21-27 Chemistry Week	22 Nat'l Nut Day	23 Women's Suffrage March, NYC (1915)	24 United Nations Day	25 Microwave Oven Debuted (1955)	26 Hillary Rodham Clinton's Birthday (1947)	27 First NYC Subway Opened (1904)
28 Statue of Liberty Dedicated (1886) National Prohibition Act Passed (1919)	29 "Black Tuesday" Stock Market Crashed (1929)	30 War of the Worlds Broadcast (1938)	31 Halloween Mt. Rushmore Completed (1941)

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