OCTOBER
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| October 1 | * International Day of Older Persons * World Habitat Day (*1st Monday) Child Health Day (*1st Monday) Jimmy Carter born in Georgia, 1924 National Holiday of China, Cyprus ,Nigeria, Palau |
| October 2 | * International Day of Non-Violence Mohandas Gandhi born in India, 1869 Cordell Hull born in Tennessee, 1871 Sting born in England, 1951 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967 National Holiday of Guinea |
| October 3 | India.Arie born in Colorado, 1975 East and West German were reunited after 45 years of division, 1990 National Holiday of Germany |
| October 4 | *
World Space Week (October
4-10) Kek Galabru born in Cambodia, 1942 Susan Sarandon born in New York, 1946 Julian Clerc born in France, 1947 Alicia Silverstone born in California, 1976 National Holiday of Lesotho |
| October 5 | Leopold Kohr born in Austria, 1909 Philip Berrigan born in Minnesota, 1923 Vaclav Havel born in Czechoslavakia, 1936 Bob Geldof born in Ireland, 1954 Maya Lin born in Ohio, 1959 |
| October 6 | Fannie Lou Hamer born in Mississippi, 1917 Yevgeny Chazov born in Russia, 1929 Marshall Rosenberg born in Ohio, 1934 American Library Association founded, 1876 UN General Assembly Resolution No. 1881 for release of all political prisoners in all nations, 1963 |
| October 7 | Intergeneration Day (*1st Sun) Joe Hill born in Sweden, 1879 Hans-Peter Dürr born in Germany, 1929 Bishop Desmond Tutu born in South Africa, 1931 Yo-Yo Ma born in France, 1955 |
| October 8 | Dennis Kucinich born in Ohio, 1946 Hanan Ashrawi born in Palestine, 1946 |
| October 9 | National Holiday of Uganda Nicolas Roerich born in Russia, 1874 John Lennon born in England, 1940 Jody Williams born in Vermont, 1950 |
| October 10 | *International
Day for Natural Disaster Reduction *World Mental Health Day Bradley Whitford born in Wisconsin, 1959 National Holiday of Fiji |
| October 11 | Jubilee 2000, led by churches, brought debt relief to 14 of 41 eligible, indebted poor countries, 2000 Eleanor Roosevelt born in New York, 1884 |
| October 12 | Marian Franz born in Kansas, 1930 National
Holiday of Equatorial Guinea, Spain |
| October 13 | John R. Commons born in Ohio, 1862 Nana Mouskouri born in Greece, 1934 Paul Simon born in New Jersey, 1941 Charlotte Bunch born in North Carolina, 1944 Canadian Ambassador to the UN Robert Fowler began investigation into the 'diamond trade' in Sierra Leone, Namibia, and other nations, 2000 |
| October 14 | William Penn born in England, 1644 Dwight Eisenhower born in Texas, 1890 Hannah Arendt born in East Prussia, 1906 C. Everett Koop born in New York, 1916 Roger Moore born in London, England, 1927 *International Standards Day |
| October 15 | White Cane Safety Day |
| October 16 | Justice William O. Douglas born in Minnesota, 1898 Leon Sullivan born in West Virginia, 1922 |
| October 17 | * International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Graça Machel-Mandela born in Mozambique, 1945 Ziggy Marley born in Jamaica, 1968 |
| October 18 | Conflict Resolution Day (3rd Thurs) Persons Day in Canada, commemorating ruling that women are considered to be persons with rights and priviliges, 1929 Félix Houphouët-Boigny born in Côte d'Ivoire, 1905 |
| October 19 | Brundtland Report, 'Our Common Future,' proclaiming the needs of development while protecting the environment, published, 1987 |
| October 20 | John Dewey born in Vermont, 1859 Wayne Morse born in Wisconsin, 1900 Janet Jagan born in Illinois, 1920 Li Zhaoxing born in China, 1940 Founding of United Nations International School (UNIS), NY 1947 |
| October 21 | National
Holiday of Somalia Alfred Nobel born in Sweden, 1833 |
| October 22 | Abigail Scott Duniway born in Illinois, 1834 Deepak Chopra born in India, 1946 National
Holiday of Holy See |
| October 23 | Anita Roddick born in England, 1942 Peace Treaty in Cambodia, 1991 |
| October 24 | *
World Development
Information Day * Disarmament Week (October 24 - 30) Belva Ann Lockwood born in New York, 1830 Johan Galtung born in Norway, 1930 National Holiday of Zambia United Nations founded, 1945 |
| October 25 | National Holiday of Kazakhstan Pablo Picasso born in Spain, 1881 |
| October 26 | Manfred Max-Neef born in Chile, 1932 Evo Morales born in Bolivia, 1959 Paul Farmer born in Massachusetts, 1959 National Holiday of Austria |
| October 27 | Separation of Church and State Day National Holiday of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Turkmenistan Klas Pontus Arnoldson born in Sweden, 1844 Theodore Roosevelt born in New York, 1858 Luis Lula da Silva born in Brazil, 1945 |
| October 28 | Desiderius Erasmus born c. 1469, Holland Jonas Salk born in New York, 1914 Julia Roberts born in Georgia, 1967 River Phoenix born in Puerto Rico, 1974 National
Holiday of Czech Republic |
| October 29 | National
Holiday of Turkey Precursor to Internet (ARPANET) created, 1969 |
| October 30 | Moscow Agreement of great powers on necessity of the United Nations, 1943 |
| October 31 | UNICEF DAY: United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund established by Maurice Pate 1950 |
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