October: Celebrations, Links, and Birthdays
October is National Apple Month. For my series of posts on apples from 2007, including links to others’ posts about apples, click here.
October is also Stamp Collecting Month.
Check out Dawn’s list of thing to do in October.
October 1: NASA’s 51st Anniversary.
Nominations for the 2009 Cybils, the children’s and young adult bloggers’ literary awards, open today.
Birthday of Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and author.
October 2: Birthday of Mohandas “Mahatma” Ghandi, b. 1869, Indian liberator and religious leader.
October 2-4: The National Storytelling Festival is held the first full weekend of October in Jonesborough, Tennessee. The storytelling festival was started by a high school journalism teacher in 1973. It has grown over the years to become a major festival in the United States with over 10,000 in attendance.
October 5-11: National Fire Prevention Week
October 6: Birthday of Thor Heyerdahl, b. 1914, explorer and author of Kon-tiki.
October 8: National Poetry Day in the U.K.
October 11: Birthday of Eleanor Roosevelt.
October 12: Traditional date of Columbus Day or Discovery Day commemorating Columbus’s first sighting of America on October 12, 1492.
Columbus Day holiday in the U.S., celebrated each year on the second Monday of October. Columbus Day Activity Set from Scholastic.
Birthday of Molly Pitcher, Revolutionary War heroine, b.1754.
October 15: Last day for nominations for the 2009 Cybils.
October 16: World Food Day is a worldwide event designed to increase awareness, understanding and informed, year-around action to alleviate hunger.
Also Dictionary Day in honor of the birthday of Noah Webster (b.1758), the father of the American dictionary.
Games and activities for celebrating words on Dictionary Day or any day.
October 18-24: National Chemistry Week. The 2009 theme is “Chemistry–It’s Elemental!”
October 21: Thomas Edison invented the light bulb on this date in 1879.
October 22: Birthday of actress Sarah Bernhardt, b. 1844.
October 25: Birthday of artist Pablo Picasso, b. 1881.
October 31: All Hallows Eve.
October 31-November 1: Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas. More than 200 of the most accomplished writers from across Texas and the nation will be appearing at the 2009 Texas Book Festival on October 31st and November 1st in the Texas State Capitol and in venues throughout downtown Austin.
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