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[edit] October
- October 1 - T. E. Lawrence
- October 2 - Siege of Jerusalem (1187)
- October 3 - Korea
- October 4 - Alvin Toffler
- October 5 - Port wine (in honor of anniversary of overthrow of Portuguese monarchy, in 1910)
- Only one illustration, we could do better. Quick spelling pass, converted a mixture of en_US and en_GB into pure en_GB. Latter part of article has major focus and style issues, may not be reasonable to get it up to featured status quickly. --Gmaxwell 04:02, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- October 6 - Rosetta Stone in honor of Egypt's national day
- Quick spelling pass. Images look good from a licensing perspective. --Gmaxwell 04:13, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- October 7 - Hair (film) (the movie included a TV show reminiscent of American Bandstand, which premiered on this day)
- October 8
- October 9
- October 10 - Panama Canal - construction ended
- Several image copyright problems. Image:Panama-canal-shepherd-map.png is too new for the pre-1923 claim the tag maes, while Image:Newlockscrosssection.jpg, Image:Newlocks1.jpg, and Image:Admbuilding.jpg were all sourced from the Panama Canal website and do not appear to be under a free enough license. --Gmaxwell 04:13, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- October 11
- October 12 - Venice - Columbus encounters America.
- October 13 - Friday_the_13th or triskadekaphobia
- October 14
- October 15
- October 16
- October 17 - SN 1604
- October 18
- October 19
- October 20
- October 21
- October 22
- October 23
- October 24
- October 25
- October 26 - Marmot - Waldemar Haffkine who found the first cure for the plague died. Marmots were thought to spread the plague.
- October 27
- October 28
- October 29
- October 30
- October 31 - Fidel Castro - End of the Mariel Boatlift in 1980
[edit] November
- November 7 - Radium - Marie Curie was born
- November 13 - Man - Jimmy Kimmel's birthday (host of The Man Show)
[edit] December
- December 1 - HIV (World AIDS Day)
- December 3 - Illinois (date of admission to union)
- December 12 - Kenya (date of formation of republic)
[edit] January
[edit] February
- February 12 - Tortoise (in honor of Charles Darwin)
[edit] March
- March 25 - Eggplant (in honor of Grecian Independence; eggplant features in Greek's national dish, moussaka)