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#: Monthly stuff
10:National Sarcastics Month
#: Events depending on weekdays
F(10/14):National Bookkeeper's Day (2nd Friday).
#: Normal events
10/1/1785  :1st city directory in US published (Philadelphia).
10/2/1920  :Last major league triple header played (Forbes Field).
10/3/1899  :Motor-driven vacuum cleaner patented.
10/4/1890  :Mormons renounced polygamy.
10/5/1979  :Charlie Smith, oldest American (137 yrs), died.
10/6/1866  :1st US train robbery ($13,000 - Reno bros.).
10/7/1849  :Edgar Allen Poe, author, died.
10/8/1871  :Great Chicago Fire broke out (300 killed).
10/9/1855  :Calliope patented (J. Stoddard).
10/10/1886 :Tuxedo introduced (Griswold Lorillard).
10/11/1922 :1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson).
10/12/1609 :"Three Blind Mice" first published.
10/13/1792 :Cornerstone laid for "President's Palace" (now known as White
           :House).
10/14      :Frump Day.
10/15      :National Grouch Day.
10/16/1916 :1st birth control clinic opened (Brooklyn, NY by Margaret Sanger).
10/17/1918 :Last ship sunk by a U-boat in WWI (SS Lucia).
10/18/1867 :Alaska transferred from Russia to the US.
10/19/1864 :Northernmost engagement of Civil War (St. Albans, VT).
10/20/1818 :49th parallel established as the border between US and Canada.
10/21/1959 :Guggenheim Museum opened.
10/22/-2137:1st recorded solar eclipse (China).
10/23      :Swallows leave San Juan Capistrano.
10/24/1836 :Match patented (A. Phillips).
10/25/1825 :1st man-made waterway opened (Erie Canal).
10/26/1881 :Shootout at the O.K. Corral.
10/27/1938 :DuPont announced invention of Nylon.
10/28/1636 :Harvard College (now Harvard University) founded.
10/29/1872 :All-metal windmill patented (J.S. Risdon, Genoa, IL).
10/30/1888 :Ball point pen patented (John J. Loud).
10/31/1926 :Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weisz), magician & escape artist, died.