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Celebrate a holiday or special day every day in October 2012. Learn about holidays you never heard of. Be sure to check back every day for recipes, crafts, games and lots more fun things to do. Enjoy! (The link next to the day provides more information about the events.)
October Seasonal Specials:
Fire Prevention Week Printables, October 7-13, 2012
Columbus
Day Printables
Halloween/Harvest Fun;
Halloween Printables
Fall
Printables; Fall
Wordsearch
October Coloring Calendar
October 1st - Presidents, Yosemite and China
- Jimmy Carter's Birthday
- China: National Day
- Yosemite National Park Established, 1890
- World Smile Day
- Get Organized Week, October 1-7
- World Vegetarian Day
- Redwood National Park Established, 1968
- North Cascades National Park Established, 1968
- Name Your Car Day
- National Custodial Workers Day
- Peanuts 50th Anniversary
- National Frugal Fun Day
- Rutherford B. Hayes Birthday
- Eliza McCardle Johnson Birthday - 200th Anniversary
- Gregorian Calendar Adjustment Anniversary
- National Taco Day
- Sputnik Launched, 1957; Astronomy and Space Exploration
- President Chester Arthur Birthday
- Ray Kroc's Birthday - McDonald's Mastermind
- Long Walk Day
- Apple Betty Day
- National Apple Betty Day
- The Rose became the U.S. National Flower; Rose Coloring Page
- Caesar Rodney's Birthday
- East Germany Created
- Bathtub Day
- Columbus Day Observed
- The Great Chicago Fire
- J. Frank Duryea's Birthday
- Don Larsen pitches perfect game
- National Fluffernutter Day
- Leif Ericsson Day
- Submarine-Hoagie-Hero-Grinder Day
- Yale University Founded
- Fire Prevention Week; Printables
- Fire Prevention Day
- National Metric Day Worksheet
- Tuxedo Day
- Double Ten Day
- National Angel Food Cake Day
- National Wildlife Refuge System Week
- King Tut's Treasure Photographed, 1924
- Canadian Thanksgiving Day
- Mary Rose Wreck Raised
- Steam-Powered Ferryboat Coloring Page
- Eleanor Roosevelt's Birthday
- 1st Steam-Powered Ferryboat Begins Operation
- National Sausage Pizza Day
- Cotton Candy Machine Patented
- Old Farmers Day; Farmer Coloring Page
- Waterproof Fabric Invented
- Pledge of Allegiance Recited in Unison
- Columbus Makes Landfall, October 12, 1492
- National Yorkshire Pudding Day
- Molly Pitcher's birthday
- Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work or School Day
- "Happy Birthday to You" Copyright Registered
- Birthday of the United States Navy - October 13, 1775
- Milton Hershey Died, 1945
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Birthday
- National Chocolate Covered Insects Day
- Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize
- William Penn's Birthday
- Noah Webster's Birthday - Dictionary Day
- Reinhold Messner first to climb all 14 eight-thousanders
- John Brown leads raid on Harper's Ferry
- World Food Day
- Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson's Birthday
- Star Spangled Banner 1st Sung
- Yorktown Day
- National Seafood Bisque Day
- Electricity Day
- Reptile Awareness Day
- Incandescent Lamp Demonstrated
- Old Ironsides Launched in Boston
- Alfred Bernhard Nobel's Birthday
- Crayola Crayons First Sold
- Canning Day - Nicolas François Appert’s Birthday
- The Swallows of Mission San Juan Capistrano
- National Boston Cream Pie Day
- Mole Day
- United Nations Day
- First Barrel Jump Over Niagara Falls
- Stock Market Panic (Black Thursday)
- National Bologna Day
- Microwave Oven Introduced
- Bennett and Byrd Birthdays
- James Adams Marries Abigail Smith
- National Greasy Foods Day
- Two Gray Whales Freed from Ice, 1966
- Hillary Rodham Clinton's Birthday
- Steven Kellogg's Birthday
- National Pumpkin Day
- Statue of Liberty Dedicated
- Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
- National Chocolate Day
- Daylight Saving Time Ends
- Halloween/Harvest, Halloween Printables
- Mount Rushmore Completion
- Nevada Admission Day
- Juliette Gordon Low's Birthday
Related Resources:
October Daily Journal Writing Prompts (Buy
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