<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Frappé Day'. . Frappé means chilled. There are several types of
food or drinks in this category. I believe this day is for the iced coffee
beverage made from instant coffee originally from Greece.
- From Wikipedia (Frappé coffee):
'Frappé coffee (also Greek frappé or café frappé) is a Greek foam-covered
iced coffee drink made from instant coffee (generally, spray-dried).
Accidentally invented by a Nescafe representative named Dimitris Vakondios
in 1957 in the city of Thessaloniki, it is now the most popular coffee
among Greek youth and foreign tourists. It is popular in Greece and Cyprus,
especially during the summer, but has now spread to other countries. The
word frappé is French and comes from the verb frapper which means to 'hit'
in this context, however, in French, when describing a drink, the word
frappé means chilled, as with ice cubes in a shaker. The frappé has become
a hallmark of post-war outdoor Greek coffee culture.
A variety of cold coffee drinks named café frappé (à la glace) is
documented starting in the 19th century. Some were similar to slushes,
others more like iced coffee.
The Greek version of café frappé, using instant coffee, was invented in
1957 at the International Trade Fair in Thessaloniki. The representative of
the Nestlé company, Giannis Dritsas, was exhibiting a new product for
children, a chocolate beverage produced instantly by mixing it with milk
and shaking it in a shaker. Dritsas' employee Dimitris Vakondios was
looking for a way to have his usual instant coffee during his break but he
could not find any hot water, so he mixed the coffee with cold water and
ice cubes in a shaker. This improvised experiment established this popular
Greek beverage. Frappé has been marketed chiefly by Nestlé and is among the
most popular drinks in Greece and is available at virtually all Greek
cafés'.
[The Hankster says] Oh, iced coffee. It sounds like something that occurs after eating too many beans.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'You Matter To Me Day'.
Annually since 2016.
[The Hankster says] You do matter to me. Who else could I get to read this stuff of mine.
* 'National LED Light Day'.
On the receipt of the Nobel Prize for the creation of a blue LED, which
made possible, white LED's.
[The Hankster says You can put more light on the subject in the history section.
* 'National Manufacturing Day'.
First Friday in October. By presidential proclamation in 2014.
* 'World Smile Day'.
On the first Friday in October. Created by Harvey Ball in 1999.,
who is created with the creating the smile face.
- From Wikipedia (World Smile Day):
'World Smile Day is celebrated on the first Friday in the month of October
every year. The idea of World Smile Day was coined and initiated by Harvey
Ball, a commercial artist from Worcester, Massachusetts. Harvey Ball is
known to have created the Smiley Face in 1963. The World's first World
Smile Day was held in the year 1999 and has been held annually since.
After Harvey died in 2001, the Harvey Ball World Smile Foundation was
created to honour his name and memory. The slogan of the Smile Foundation
is improving this world, one smile at a time. The Foundation continues as
the official sponsor of World Smile Day each year.
The message of the World Smile Day 2010 is Do an act of kindness. Help one
person smile.'.
[The Hankster says] Turn a smilie face upside down, and.you will have to read the rest of the page standing on your head.
* 'Plaidurday'.
A celebration of all things plaid.
[The Hankster says] Crisscross patterns are good camouflage. I guess there is an exception to everything.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'Light the Night'. In Australia. A fund raiser by Leukaemia Foundation.
- From Wikipedia (Light the Night Walk):
'Light the Night Walk is The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's walk to build
awareness of blood cancers as well as raise money for research and support
of patients and their families. It is held in over 200 communities in North
America each fall as well as in Australia.
Walkers carry illuminated lanterns of different colors. White balloons are
carried by survivors, red by supporters, and gold balloons are carried by
those walking in memory of a loved one they lost. In Australia, the color
blue is used instead of red.
Children, adults, and seniors all take part in the annual evening walk. The
walkers all enjoy a leisurely pace, as there are no fitness requirements to
participate. Usually, it is completed in under an hour. In some walks
(Australia), a short route as well as an optional extended route is
available.
Funds raised by participants support the Society's mission: cure leukemia,
lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma and myeloma, and improve the quality of life
of patients and their families. Walkers who raise a minimum of $100 become
a Champion for Cures and are honored with a Light the Night t-shirt,
balloon, and wristband for food and refreshments at the walk.
The 2011 celebrity ambassador for the walk is Michael C. Hall. At 38 years
old, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Past national spokespeople
include Tina Fey and Cynthia Nixon'.
o Other:
* 'Byte Night'. In Great Brittain. A fund raiser for homeless youth.
- From Wikipedia (Action for Children):
'Action for Children is a UK children’s charity committed to helping
vulnerable and neglected children and young people, and their families,
throughout the UK.
Through 650 projects and services based around the UK, the charity works
with over 300,000 children, young people, and their families. It helps and
supports people in areas as diverse as disability respite therapy, foster
care, adoption and child neglect.
The website states: We work to make sure every child and young person has
the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential.
Its national headquarters is in Watford and it is a registered charity
under English and Scottish law. In 2010/11 it had a gross income of £200
million, making it one of the 20 largest charities in the UK'.
<> Historical events on October 7
* 'In 1826, The 'Granite Railway' begins operations as the first chartered
railway in the U.S. Originally designed to move large granite blocks from a
quarry for the Bunker Hill Monument. It began with wooden rails (then
granite rails), capped with iron, on which horse drawn wagons were used.
It ran until the 1940's. After 1871 conventional rails and steam
locomotives were used. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Granite Railway was one of the first railroads in
the United States, built to carry granite from Quincy to a dock on the
Neponset River in Milton. From there boats carried the heavy stone to
Charlestown for construction of the Bunker Hill Monument. The Granite
Railway is popularly termed the first commercial railroad in the United
States, as it was the first chartered railway to evolve into a common
carrier without an intervening closure. The last active quarry closed in
1963 in 1985, the Metropolitan District Commission purchased 22 acres (8.9
ha), including Granite Railway Quarry, as the Quincy Quarries Reservation'.
* 'In 1916, Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most
lopsided college football game in American history.
- From Wikipedia: Cumberland College, a Presbyterian school in Lebanon,
Tennessee, had discontinued its football program before the season but was
not allowed to cancel its game against the Engineers. The fact that
Cumberland's baseball team had crushed Georgia Tech earlier that year 22–0
(amidst allegations that Cumberland used professionals as ringers) probably
accounted for Georgia Tech coach John Heisman's running up the score on the
Bulldogs, Heisman also being the Engineers' baseball coach. He insisted on
the schools' scheduling agreement, which required Cumberland to pay $3,000
($65,000 in inflation-adjusted terms) to Tech if its football team failed
to show'.
- From Wikipedia: 'The 1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game was
the most lopsided in the history of college football, with Georgia Tech
winning 222–0. The game was played on October 7, 1916, between the Georgia
Tech Engineers and Cumberland College Bulldogs at Grant Field (now a part
of Bobby Dodd Stadium) in Atlanta, Georgia'.
* 'In 1919, KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the
oldest airline still operating under its original name. .
- From Wikipedia: KLM, legally Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V.
(Royal Dutch Airlines), is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands. KLM
is headquartered in Amstelveen, with its hub at nearby Amsterdam Airport
Schiphol. It is part of the Air France–KLM group, and is a member of the
SkyTeam airline alliance. KLM was founded in 1919 it is the oldest airline
in the world still operating under its original name and had 32,505
employees as of 2013.
KLM operates scheduled passenger and cargo services to approximately 130
destinations. Passenger aircraft are configured in a three-class layout,
including Business Class, Economy Comfort, Economy Class. KLM has a
reputation as one of the world's safest airlines. Its frequent-flyer
program is called Flying Blue, and has codeshare agreements with other
airlines—both members and non-members of SkyTeam'.
* 'In 1933, Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5
French airlines. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Air France was formed on 7 October 1933, from a merger
of Air Orient, Air Union, Compagnie Générale Aéropostale, Compagnie
Internationale de Navigation Aérienne (CIDNA) and Société Générale des
Transports Aériens (SGTA). Of these airlines, SGTA was the first commercial
airline company in France, having been founded as Lignes Aériennes Farman
in 1919. The constituent members of Air France had already built extensive
networks across Europe, to French colonies in North Africa and farther
afield. During World War II, Air France moved its operations to Casablanca
(Morocco)'.
* 'In 1952, The bar code is first patented by Joseph Woodland and Bernard
Silver. .
- From Wikipedia: 'A barcode is an optical, machine-readable,
representation of data the data usually describes something about the
object that carries the barcode. Originally barcodes systematically
represented data by varying the widths and spacings of parallel lines, and
may be referred to as linear or one-dimensional (1D). Later two-dimensional
(2D) codes were developed, using rectangles, dots, hexagons and other
geometric patterns in two dimensions, usually called barcodes although they
do not use bars as such. Barcodes originally were scanned by special
optical scanners called barcode readers. Later applications software became
available for devices that could read images, such as smartphones with
cameras.
An early use of one type of barcode in an industrial context was sponsored
by the Association of American Railroads in the late 1960s. Developed by
General Telephone and Electronics (GTE) and called KarTrak ACI (Automatic
Car Identification), this scheme involved placing colored stripes in
various combinations on steel plates which were affixed to the sides of
railroad rolling stock. Two plates were used per car, one on each side,
with the arrangement of the colored stripes encoding information such as
ownership, type of equipment, and identification number. The plates were
read by a trackside scanner, located for instance, at the entrance to a
classification yard, while the car was moving past. The project was
abandoned after about ten years because the system proved unreliable after
long-term use.
Barcodes became commercially successful when they were used to automate
supermarket checkout systems, a task for which they have become almost
universal. Their use has spread to many other tasks that are generically
referred to as automatic identification and data capture (AIDC). The very
first scanning of the now ubiquitous Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode
was on a pack of Wrigley Company chewing gum in June 1974.
Other systems have made inroads in the AIDC market, but the simplicity,
universality and low cost of barcodes has limited the role of these other
systems until technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID)
became available after 2000.
In 1948 Bernard Silver, a graduate student at Drexel Institute of
Technology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US overheard the president of the
local food chain, Food Fair, asking one of the deans to research a system
to automatically read product information during checkout. Silver told his
friend Norman Joseph Woodland about the request, and they started working
on a variety of systems. Their first working system used ultraviolet ink,
but the ink faded too easily and was rather expensive.
Convinced that the system was workable with further development, Woodland
left Drexel, moved into his father's apartment in Florida, and continued
working on the system. His next inspiration came from Morse code, and he
formed his first barcode from sand on the beach. I just extended the dots
and dashes downwards and made narrow lines and wide lines out of them. To
read them, he adapted technology from optical soundtracks in movies, using
a 500-watt incandescent light bulb shining through the paper onto an RCA935
photomultiplier tube (from a movie projector) on the far side. He later
decided that the system would work better if it were printed as a circle
instead of a line, allowing it to be scanned in any direction.
On 20 October 1949 Woodland and Silver filed a patent application for
Classifying Apparatus and Method, in which they described both the linear
and bullseye printing patterns, as well as the mechanical and electronic
systems needed to read the code. The patent was issued on 7 October 1952 as
US Patent 2,612,994 . In 1951, Woodland moved to IBM and continually tried
to interest IBM in developing the system. The company eventually
commissioned a report on the idea, which concluded that it was both
feasible and interesting, but that processing the resulting information
would require equipment that was some time off in the future.
IBM offered to buy the patent, but its offer was not high enough. Philco
purchased their patent in 1962 and then sold it to RCA sometime later'.
* 'In 1957, The TV show 'American Bandstand' premieres.
- From Wikipedia: 'American Bandstand is an American music-performance show
that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956
until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer'.
- From Wikipedia: 'American Bandstand is an American music-performance show
that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956
until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer. The show
featured teenagers dancing to Top 40 music introduced by Clark at least one
popular musical act—over the decades, running the gamut from Jerry Lee
Lewis to Run–D.M.C.—would usually appear in person to lip-sync one of their
latest singles. Freddy Boom Boom Cannon holds the record for most
appearances at 110.
The show's popularity helped Dick Clark become an American media mogul and
inspired similar long-running music programs, such as Soul Train and Top of
the Pops. Clark eventually assumed ownership of the program through his
Dick Clark Productions company'.
* 'In 1960, The TV show 'Route 66' premieres. It starred Martin Milner,
George Maharis (1960-1963), Glenn Corbett (1963-1964). It ran 4 seasons
116 ep. from October 7, 1960 – March 20, 1964.
- From Wikipedia: 'Route 66 is an American television drama that premiered
on CBS on October 7, 1960, and ran until March 20, 1964, for a total of 116
episodes. The series was created by Herbert B. Leonard and Stirling
Silliphant, who were also responsible for the ABC drama Naked City, from
which Route 66 was indirectly spun off. Both series employed a format with
elements of both traditional drama and anthology drama, but the difference
was where the shows were set: Naked City was set in New York City, while
Route 66 had its setting change from week to week, with each episode being
shot on location in the area in which it was set.
Route 66 followed two young men traversing the United States in a Chevrolet
Corvette convertible, and the events and consequences surrounding their
journeys. Martin Milner starred as Tod Stiles, a recent college graduate
with no future prospects due to circumstances beyond his control. He was
originally joined on his travels by Buz Murdock, a friend and former
employee of his father (played by George Maharis), with the character
leaving midway through the third season after contracting echovirus. Near
the end of the third season, Tod met a recently discharged Vietnam veteran
named Lincoln Case, played by Glenn Corbett, who decided to follow Tod on
his travels and stayed with him until the final episode'.
* 'In 1968, The Motion Picture Association adopts its film-rating system,
from 'G' to 'X'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA)
film-rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate
a film's suitability for certain audiences, based on its content. The MPAA
rating system is a voluntary scheme that is not enforced by law films can
be exhibited without a rating, though many theaters refuse to exhibit
non-rated or NC-17 rated films. Non-members of MPAA may also submit films
for rating. Other media (such as television programs and video games) may
be rated by other entities. The MPAA rating system is one of various motion
picture rating systems that are used to help parents decide what films are
appropriate for their children.
The MPAA's rating system is administered by the Classification and Ratings
Administration (CARA), an independent division of the MPAA.
Jack Valenti, who had become president of the Motion Picture Association of
America in May 1966, deemed the Motion Picture Production Code – in place
since 1930 and rigorously enforced since 1934 – as out of date and bearing
the odious smell of censorship Filmmakers were pushing at the boundaries of
the Code, and Valenti cited examples such as Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?, which contained the expressions screw and hump the hostess and
Blowup, which was denied Code approval due to nudity, resulting in the MPAA
member studio releasing it through a subsidiary. He revised the Code to
include the SMA (Suggested for Mature Audiences) advisory as a stopgap
measure. To accommodate the irresistible force of creators determined to
make 'their films', and to avoid the possible intrusion of government into
the movie arena, he developed a set of advisory ratings which could be
applied after a film was completed. On November 1, 1968, the voluntary MPAA
film rating system took effect, with three organizations serving as its
monitoring and guiding groups: the MPAA, the National Association of
Theater Owners (NATO), and the International Film Importers and
Distributors of America (IFIDA).
This content classification system originally was to have three ratings,
with the intention of allowing parents to take their children to any film
they chose. However, the National Association of Theater Owners urged the
creation of an adults-only category, fearful of possible legal problems in
local jurisdictions. The X rating was not an MPAA trademark and would not
receive the MPAA seal any producer not submitting a film for MPAA rating
could self-apply the X rating (or any other symbol or description that was
not an MPAA trademark)'.
* 'In 1982, The musical 'Cats' opens at Winter Garden Theater on Broadway
NYC and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based
on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, and produced by
Cameron Mackintosh. The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called
the Jellicles and the night they make what is known as the Jellicle choice
and decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a
new life. Cats introduced the song standard Memory The first performance of
Cats was in 1981.
Directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Gillian Lynne, Cats first
opened in the West End in 1981 and then with the same creative team on
Broadway in 1982. It won numerous awards, including Best Musical at both
the Laurence Olivier Awards and the Tony Awards. The London production ran
for twenty-one years and the Broadway production ran for eighteen years,
both setting new records. Actresses Elaine Paige and Betty Buckley became
particularly associated with the musical. One actress, Marlene Danielle,
performed in the Broadway production for its entire run (from 1982 until
2000).
As of 2016, Cats is the fourth-longest-running show in Broadway history,
and was the longest running Broadway show in history from 1987 to 2006 when
it was surpassed by The Phantom of the Opera. Cats is the
fourth-longest-running West End musical. It has been performed around the
world many times and has been translated into more than 20 languages. In
1998, Cats was turned into a made-for-television film'.
* 'In 1996, The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Fox News Channel (FNC), also known as Fox News, is an
American basic cable and satellite news television channel that is owned by
the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. As of February
2015, approximately 94,700,000 American households (81.4% of cable,
satellite and telco customers) receive the Fox News Channel. The channel
broadcasts primarily from studios at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York
City, New York.
The channel was created by Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch,
who hired former Republican Party media consultant and CNBC executive Roger
Ailes as its founding CEO. It launched on October 7, 1996, to 17 million
cable subscribers. It grew during the late 1990s and 2000s to become a
dominant cable news network in the United States. Rupert Murdoch is the
current chairman and acting CEO of Fox News.
Fox News Channel has been accused of biased reporting and promoting the
Republican Party. Critics have cited the channel as detrimental to the
integrity of news overall. Fox News Channel employees have responded that
news reporting operates independently of its opinion and commentary
programming, and have denied bias in news reporting'.
* 'In 2001, The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September
11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault
and covert operations on the ground. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The war in Afghanistan (or the American war in
Afghanistan) is the period in which the United States invaded Afghanistan
after the September 11 attacks. Supported initially by close allies, they
were later joined by NATO beginning in 2003. It followed the Afghan Civil
War's 1996–2001 phase. Its public aims were to dismantle al-Qaeda and to
deny it a safe base of operations in Afghanistan by removing the Taliban
from power. Key allies, including the United Kingdom, supported the U.S.
from the start to the end of the phase. This phase of the war is the
longest war in United States history.
In 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush demanded that the Taliban hand over
Osama bin Laden and expel al-Qaeda bin Laden had already been wanted by the
United Nations since 1999. The Taliban declined to extradite him unless
given what they deemed convincing evidence of his involvement in the 9/11
attacks and declined demands to extradite other terrorism suspects apart
from bin Laden. The request was dismissed by the U.S. as a delaying tactic,
and on 7 October 2001 it launched Operation Enduring Freedom with the
United Kingdom. The two were later joined by other forces, including the
Northern Alliance. In December 2001, the United Nations Security Council
established the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), to assist
the Afghan interim authorities with securing Kabul. At the Bonn Conference
in December 2001, Hamid Karzai was selected to head the Afghan Interim
Administration, which after a 2002 loya jirga in Kabul became the Afghan
Transitional Administration. In the popular elections of 2004, Karzai was
elected president of the country, now named the Islamic Republic of
Afghanistan.
NATO became involved as an alliance in August 2003, taking the helm of the
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), and later that year assumed
leadership of ISAF with troops from 43 countries. NATO members provided the
core of the force. One portion of U.S. forces in Afghanistan operated under
NATO command the rest remained under direct U.S. command. Taliban leader
Mullah Omar reorganized the movement, and in 2003, launched an insurgency
against the government and ISAF. Though outgunned and outnumbered,
insurgents from the Taliban, Haqqani Network, Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin and
other groups have waged asymmetric warfare with guerilla raids and ambushes
in the countryside, suicide attacks against urban targets and turncoat
killings against coalition forces. The Taliban exploited weaknesses in the
Afghan government, among the most corrupt in the world, to reassert
influence across rural areas of southern and eastern Afghanistan. ISAF
responded in 2006 by increasing troops for counterinsurgency operations to
clear and hold villages and nation building projects to win hearts and
minds While ISAF continued to battle the Taliban insurgency, fighting
crossed into neighboring North-West Pakistan.
On 2 May 2011, United States Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in
Abbotabad, Pakistan. In May 2012, NATO leaders endorsed an exit strategy
for withdrawing their forces. UN-backed peace talks have since taken place
between the Afghan government and the Taliban. In May 2014, the United
States announced that combat operations end in 2014, just a small
residual force in the country until the end of 2016 As of 2015, tens of
thousands of people have been killed in the war. Over 4,000 ISAF soldiers
and civilian contractors as well as over 15,000 Afghan national security
forces members have been killed, as well as nearly 20 thousand civilians.
In October 2014, British forces handed over the last bases in Helmand to
the Afghan military, officially ending their combat operations in the war.
On 28 December 2014, NATO formally ended combat operations in Afghanistan
and transferred full security responsibility to the Afghan government, via
a ceremony in Kabul'.
* 'In 2014, The Novel Prize is given for the invention of the first bright blue
LED. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Blue LEDs were first developed by Herbert Paul Maruska
at RCA in 1972 using gallium nitride (GaN) on a sapphire substrate.
SiC-types were first commercially sold in the United States by Cree in
1989. However, neither of these initial blue LEDs were very bright.
The first high-brightness blue LED was demonstrated by Shuji Nakamura of
Nichia Corporation in 1994 and was based on InGaN. In parallel, Isamu
Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano in Nagoya were working on developing the
important GaN nucleation on sapphire substrates and the demonstration of
p-type doping of GaN. Nakamura, Akasaki and Amano were awarded the 2014
Nobel prize in physics for their work. In 1995, Alberto Barbieri at the
Cardiff University Laboratory (GB) investigated the efficiency and
reliability of high-brightness LEDs and demonstrated a transparent contact
LED using indium tin oxide (ITO) on (AlGaInP/GaAs).
In 2001 and 2002, processes for growing gallium nitride (GaN) LEDs on
silicon were successfully demonstrated. In January 2012, Osram demonstrated
high-power InGaN LEDs grown on silicon substrates commercially'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in October
Food
American Cheese Month
Apple Month
Corn Month
Go Hog Wild - Eat Country Ham
National Bake and Decorate Month
National Caramel Month
National Cookbook Month
National Popcorn Poppin' Month
National Pork Month
Pizza Month
Sausage Month
Spinach Lovers Month
Vegetarian Month
Health
AIDS Awareness Month
American Pharmacists Month
Antidepressant Death Awareness Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Bullying Prevention Month
World Blindness Awareness Month
Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month
Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Christmas Seal Campaign
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Down Syndrome Awareness Month
Dyslexia Awareness Month
Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
Emotional Wellness Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Global ADHD Awareness Month
Global Diversity Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
Home Eye Safety Month
Long Term Care Planning Month
National AIDS Awareness Month
National Audiology/Protect Your Hearing Month
National Critical Illness Awareness Month
National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Depression Education and Awareness Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
National Down Syndrome Month
National Liver Awareness Month
National Medical Librarian Month
National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Physical Therapy Month
National Protect Your Hearing Month
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
National Stop Bullying Month
National Substance Abuse Prevention Month
Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
Organize Your Medical Information Month
Talk About Prescriptions Month
World Menopause Month
Animal and Pet
Adopt A Dog Month
Adopt A Shelter Dog Month
Bat Appreciation Month
National Animal Safety and Protection Month
Wishbones for Pets Month
Other
Celebrating The Bilingual Child Month
Children's Magazine Month
Class Reunion Month
Country Music Month
Employee Ownership Month
Energy Management is a Family Affair
Fair Trade Month
Financial Planning Month
German-American Heritage Month
Halloween Safety Month
Head Start Awareness Month
Italian-American Heritage Month
International Strategic Planning Month
International Walk To School Month
Intergeneration Month
Learn To Bowl Month
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Chili Month
National Crime Prevention Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
National Ergonomics Month
National Field Trip Month
National Kitchen and Bath Month
National Reading Group Month
National Roller Skating Month
National Stamp Collecting Month
National Work and Family Month
Photographer Appreciation Month
Polish American Heritage Month
Self-Promotion Month
October is:
October origin (from Wikipedia): October is the tenth month of the year
in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a
length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October
retained its name (from the Greek meaning 'eight') after January
and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been
created by the Romans.
"
October is commonly associated with the season of autumn in the Northern
hemisphere and spring in the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal
equivalent to April in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
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