Day of the Dead

Daylight Savings Time Ends

Stamp Act in Effect (1765)

North & South Dakota Admission Day (1889)

Harry Truman Elected President (1948)

Jimmy Carter Elected President (1976)

Nat'l Sandwich Day

First Dog Orbited Earth (1957)

First Black Female Senator Elected (1992)

First Cash Register Patented (1880)

King Tut's Tomb Discovered (1922)

90 Americans Taken Hostage in Iran (1979)

First Automobile Patented (1885)

Pres. Franklin Roosevelt Won Third Term (1940)

Abraham Lincoln Elected President (1860)

Jefferson Davis Elected President of Confederacy (1861)

First Intercollegiate Soccer Match (1869)

Marie Curie's Birthday (1867)

FDR Won Fourth Presidential Term (1944)

Eleanor Roosevelt Died (1962)

First Black Governor Elected (1989)

Montana Admission Day (1889)

Grover Cleveland Elected President (1892)

Alleged Yeti Tracks Discovered (1951)

John F. Kennedy Elected President (1960)

Benjamin Banneker's Birthday (1731)

Kristallnacht Began (1938)

Berlin Wall Opened (1989)

World Kindness Week

Sesame Street Premiered on PBS (1969)

Great Wall of China Opened for World Tourism (1970)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Opened in Washington, DC (1982)

Veterans Day

First Supernova Discovered (1572)

Pilgrims Signed Mayflower Compact (1620)

Washington Admission Day (1889)

WWI Armistice Signed (1918)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Birthday (1815)

Joseph Stalin Became Ruler of Soviet Union (1927)

World War II Battle of Guadalcanal Began (1942)

Holland Tunnel Opened (1927)

Laws for Segregation on Buses Ended (1956)

American Teddy Bear Day

Claude Monet's Birthday (1840)

First Woman Elected to Speaker of the House (2002)

America Recycles Day

Articles of Confederation Approved (1777)

Largest War Protest Ever (1969)

American Education Week

Geography Awareness Week

Int'l Day for Tolerance

Oklahoma Statehood Day (1889)

Oodaaq Island Discovered (1978)

Homemade Bread Day

Queen Elizabeth I Ascended Throne (1558)

Suez Canal Opened in Egypt (1869)

William Tell Shot the Apple (1307)

Mickey Mouse Debuted (1928)

Same-sex Marriage Guaranteed in Mass. (2004)

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863)

New Jersey First to Ratify Bill of Rights (1789)

Edwin Hubble's Birthday (1889)

Voltaire's Birthday (1694)

First Hot-Air Balloon Flight (1763)

North Carolina Statehood Day (1789)

Mount St. Helens Erupted (1842)

JFK Assassinated (1963)

Games & Puzzles Week

Nat'l Cashew Day

Zoom Lens Patented (1948)

Zachary Taylor's Birthday (1784)

Darwin's Origin of the Species Published (1859)

Jack Ruby Shot Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Founded (1758)

Wind-Up Car Patented (1881)

Joe DiMaggio's Birthday (1914)

Thanksgiving

First Thanksgiving Day (1789)

Charles Schulz's Birthday (1922)

Anders Celsius's Birthday (1701)

Nobel Prize Established (1895)

Ferdinand Magellan Passed through Magellan Strait (1520)

Ka Lahui (Independence Day, Hawaii) (1843)

Louisa May Alcott's Birthday (1832)

Jewish Homeland Established in Palestine (1947)

Mark Twain's Birthday (1835)

Winston Churchill's Birthday (1874)

Oscar Wilde Died (1930)