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Show Some Events: Of October The fields are harvested and bare And winter whistles through the Square. October dresses in flame and gold Like a woman afraid of growing old. -Anne Lawler. October is filled with interesting dates, and is the birthday month of six presidents. It is also the month in which many state days are observed, or have been in the past-Missouri Day on the 1st, Oklahoma Historical His-torical Day on the 10th, University of North Carolina Day on the 12th (and Farmers' Day in Florida), Alaska Alas-ka 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 Jimmy Carter, the 39th, born in Plains, Georgia, on the 1st in 1924; 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, Texas, on the 14th in 1890; John Adams, 2nd, born in Braintree. Massachusetts, 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 opened up North America to colonization and trade, and therefore there-fore had immense 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 Ger-man settlement in America was made at German-town, German-town, Pennsylvania, on the 6th in 1683; John Clarke, a pioneer in the field of religious liberty and one of the founders of Rhode Island, was born on the 8th, in 1609 (in England). Pulaski Day, which President Franklin Roosevelt . proclaimed as one of memory for the Polish count who fought bravely for the colonies in the Revolu- . tion, 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 The Edict of Nantes, granting Protestants tolerance, was revoked on the 22nd in 1685, sending hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen .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 to America and elsewhere. Halloween Hal-loween ends the month. |