Oct. 1Oct. 1

1924 Jimmy Carter (39th US President)

1971 Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States

Oct. 2Oct. 21869 Mohandas K Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), pacifist

1535 Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal

Oct. 3Oct. 31605 Li Tzu-ch'eng Chinese

revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor

1920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games

Oct. 4Oct. 4

1822 Rutherford B Hayes (R) 19th pres (1877-81)

1648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen

Oct. 5Oct. 51830 Chester Alan Arthur (R)

21st Pres (1881-85)

1813 Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British

Oct. 6Oct. 6

1824 Henry Chadwick, developed 1st rule book for baseball

1889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture

Oct. 7Oct. 7

1968 Toni Braxton (singer)

1916 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided victory in American college football

Oct .8Oct .8

1970 Matt Damon (actor)

1871 Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4 sq. miles of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation

Oct. 9Oct. 9

• 1547 Miguel de Cervantes novelist (Don Quixote)

• 1876 1st 2-way telephone conversation

Oct. 10Oct. 10

• 1830 Queen Isabella II Queen of Spain (1833-68)

• 1845 The Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis

Oct. 11Oct. 11

• 1884 Eleanor Roosevelt 1st lady

• 1932 1st political telecast(Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC

Oct. 12Oct. 12

1798 Pedro I 1st emperor of Brazil (1822-31)

1968 19th modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City

Oct. 13Oct. 13

1980 Ashanti (singer)

1492 Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas

Oct. 14Oct. 141890 Dwight David 'Ike' Eisenhower

(5-star U.S. army general)

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed

Oct. 15Oct. 15

1959 Emeril Lagasse (chef)

1860 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard

Oct. 16Oct. 16

1758 Noah Webster (Webster's Dictionary)

1829 Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)

Oct. 17Oct. 17

1938 Robert "Evel" Knievel motorcycle daredevil

1781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown

Oct. 18Oct. 18

1919 Pierre Elliot Trudeau 15th Canadian PM (1968-79, 1980-84)

1892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)

Oct. 19Oct. 19

1868 Bertha Landes 1st woman elected mayor of a major US city (Seattle)

1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends

Oct. 20Oct. 20

1874 Viscount Palmerston (Whig) British PM (1855-65)

1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase

Oct. 21Oct. 21

1833 Alfred Nobel (philanthropist)

1944 US troops capture Aachen, first large German city to fall

Oct. 22Oct. 221911 Curly Howard (Jerry

Horwitz) (the Three Stooges)

1962 JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis

Oct. 23Oct. 23

• 1925 Johnny Carson, comedian (Tonight Show)

• 1941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released

Oct. 24Oct. 24

1788 Sarah Josepha Hale author (Mary Had a Little Lamb)

1931 George Washington Bridge connecting NY to NJ opens

Oct. 25Oct. 25

1967 Julia Roberts, actress

1764 John Adams marries Abigail Smith (marriage lasts 54 years)

Oct. 26Oct. 26

1879 Leon Trotsky Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet)

1825 Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened

Oct. 27Oct. 27

1858 Theodore Roosevelt (R) 26th Pres (1901-09)

1775 US Navy established

Oct. 28Oct. 28

1914 Dr. Jonas Salk (medical researcher, cure for polio)

1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints

Oct. 29Oct. 29

1947 Richard Dreyfuss (actor- Jaws, TV Narrator)

1945 The first ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it was patented

Oct. 30Oct. 30

1735 John Adams, 2nd pres (1797-1801)

1938 Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds"

Oct.31Oct.31

1860 Juliette Gordon Low Girl Scout founder

1864 Nevada admitted as 36th state