Educators' Calendar: United Kingdom

October 2019

29th September

29

30th September

30

1st October

1

2nd October

2

3rd October

3

4th October

4

5th October

5

29th September

30th September

1st October

International Day of Older Persons

Last Steam Trains on London Underground (1961)

'First McDonald''s Opened in London' (1974)

2nd October

World Architecture Day

Indian Independence Leader Mohandas Gandhi Born (1869)

Peanuts Comic Strip Debuted (1950)

3rd October

East and West Germany United (1990)

4th October

World Animal Day

Crimean War Began (1853)

Oct. 4-10
World Space Week

5th October

'World Teacher''s Day'

Sukkot (Jewish Harvest Festival) Begins at Sundown

Start of Jarrow March (1936)

6th October

6

7th October

7

8th October

8

9th October

9

10th October

10

11th October

11

12th October

12

6th October

National Badger Day

Thomas Edison Showed First Motion Picture (1889)

President Sadat of Egypt Assassinated (1981)

7th October

Captain Cook Reached New Zealand (1769)

Physicist Niels Bohr Born (1885)

U.S. Launched Air Strikes Against Taleban in Afghanistan (2001)

8th October

Croatia Declared Independence from Yugoslav Federation (1991)

9th October

Yom Kippur Begins at Sundown

World Post Day

Musician John Lennon Born (1940)

Marxist Revolutionary Che Guevara Shot Dead (1967)

10th October

World Mental Health Day

'King Tut''s Treasures Discovered' (1924)

Pac-Man Arcade Game Released (1979)

Millennium Wheel Lifted Upright (1999)

11th October

International Day of the Girl

First Staffed Apollo Mission Launched (1968)

Tudor Ship Mary Rose Raised (1982)

12th October

World Sight Day

World Arthritis Day

Columbus Landed in Bahamas (1492)

Boer War Began (1899)

13th October

13

14th October

14

15th October

15

16th October

16

17th October

17

18th October

18

19th October

19

13th October

Simchat Torah (Jewish Festival) Begins at Sundown

Greenwich Adopted as Universal Time Meridian of Longitude (1884)

14th October

Battle of Hastings Fought (1066)

Winnie-the-Pooh First Published (1926)

Martin Luther King Jr. Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1964)

15th October

Cuban Missile Crisis Began (1962)

The Great Storm (Tornado) in SE England (1987)

Nelson Mandela Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1993)

16th October

John Paul II Elected Pope (1978)

17th October

Mother Teresa Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1979)

18th October

Two U.S. Olympians Suspended for Black Power Salute (1968)

19th October

Diwali (Hindu Festival)

Largest Mass of Gold Discovered (1872)

20th October

20

21st October

21

22nd October

22

23rd October

23

24th October

24

25th October

25

26th October

26

20th October

Architect Sir Christopher Wren Born (1632)

21st October

Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge Born (1772)

Battle of Trafalgar (Trafalgar Day) (1805)

Chemist Alfred Nobel Born (1833)

Thomas Edison Invented Light Bulb (1879)

22nd October

First Recorded Eclipse of the Sun Seen in China (-2137)

International Stammering Awareness Day

First Parachute Jump from Balloon (1797)

23rd October

Auld Alliance Signed (1295)

Battle of Edgehill (1842)

UN General Assembly First Convened (1946)

24th October

First Football Club Formed (Sheffield FC) (1857)

First Transcontinental Telegraph Line Completed (1861)

'Concorde''s Last Commercial Flight' (2003)

25th October

Microwave Oven Debuted (1955)

26th October

Death of King Alfred the Great (899)

New Globe Theatre Opened (1989)

27th October

27

28th October

28

29th October

29

30th October

30

31st October

31

1st November

1

2nd November

2

27th October

Nylon Fabric Debuted (1938)

28th October

'First Lord Mayor''s Show in London' (1215)

Cuban Missile Crisis Ended (1962)

29th October

British Summer Time Ends

International Red Cross Founded (1863)

'Franco''s Dictatorship Ended' (1975)

30th October

War of the Worlds Broadcast (1938)

31st October

1st November

2nd November

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