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October holidays: 16-World Food Day ~ 31-Halloween

October history 1 - Model T car goes on sale for first time (1908) 4 - East and West Germany united as the Republic of Germany (1990) 6 - The Jazz Singer, first full-length 'talkie' film, opens (1927) 8 - Great Fire of Chicago starts (1871) 20 - U.S. & Britain set U.S.-Canadian border at 49th parallel (1818) 24 - Al Capone sentenced to 11 years in prison for income tax evasion (1931) 26 - shoot-out at the O.K. Corral between Clanton and Earp families 27 - NYC subway begins operating, the first underground rail system in the world (1904) 31 - Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to Wittenberg's palace church

October Birthdays 1 - Julie Andrews 2 - Groucho Marx 4 - Frederic Remington 9 - John Lennon 10 - Dale Earnhardt Jr 13 - Paul Simon 14 - Dwight D. Eisenhower 16 - Angela Lansbury 20 - Bela Lugosi 23 - Johnny Carson 25 - Johann Strauss 31 - Dan Rather