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Show OGlQllOP, 1075 October is filled with interesting dates, and is the birthday month of five presidents. It is also the month in which many state days are, or have been in the past, observed-Missouri Day on the 1st, Oklahoma Historical His-torical Day on the 10. University Univer-sity of North Carolina Day on the 12th (and Farmers' Day in Florida), Alaska Day on the 18th, Yorktown Day on the 19th, Pennsylvania Day on the 24th and Admission Day in Nevada on the 31st. PRESIDENTS BORN in October include Rutherford Hayes, the 19th, born in Delaware, Ohio, on the 4th in 1822; Chester Arthur, 21st, born in Fairfield, Vermont, on the 5th in 1830. Dwight Eisenhower, 34th, born at Denison, Tex., on the 14th in 1890; John Adams, 2nd, bom in Braintree, Mass., on the 30th in 1735; Theodore Roosevelt, 26th, born in New York City on the 27th in 1858. INTERESTINGLY, October is the month in which both Leif Ericsson and Columbus sailed to the New World. While Columbus' voyage actually ac-tually opened up North, America to colonization and trade, and therefore had immense im-mense consequences. Ericsson's voyage came about five hundred years earlier. Colorado, in 1943, became one of the first states to observe Leif Ericsson Day, on the 9th. Columbus Day, on the 12th, has become a federal holiday. LEHIGH University and Dartmouth observe Founder's Day in October; the first permanent German settlement in America was made at Germantown, Pa., on the 6th in 1683. John Clarke, a pioneer in the field of religious liberty and one of the founders of Rhode Island, was bom on the 8th, in 1609 (in England). PULASKI DAY, which President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed as one of the memory for the Polish count who fought bravely for the colonies in the Revolution, falls on the 11th. St. Francis of Assisi, one of the most humble heroes of the Christian church, died on the 3rd in 1236. The Edict of Nantes, granting Protestants tolerance, was revoked on the 22nd in 1685, sending hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen fleeing persecution persecu-tion to America and elsewhere. el-sewhere. Halloweens ends the month. |