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October 1
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- 1890 – Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
- 1903 – The first modern World Series in North American baseball, pitting the National League's Pittsburgh Pirates against Boston of the American League (pictured), begins at Pittsburgh's Exposition Park.
- 1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
- 1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
- 1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.
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October 2
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October 3
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October 4
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October 5
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October 6
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October 7
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- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
- 1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations (pictured) as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Bahia Incident: USS Wachusett illegally captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality.
- 1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
- 1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
- 1963 – John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
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October 8
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October 9
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October 10
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October 11
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October 12
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October 13
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October 14
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- 1894 – E. E. Cummings (pictured), considered a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, was born.
- 1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former President Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper.
- 1926 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published.
- 1949 – Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the Federal Government.
- 1962 – An American U-2 reconnaissance plane flying over the island of Cuba takes photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed, sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1968 – During the 1968 Summer Olympic Games, Jim Hines becomes the first man to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the, with a time of 9.95 seconds.
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October 15
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October 16
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October 17
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October 18
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October 19
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October 20
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October 21
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October 22
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October 23
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October 24
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October 25
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October 26
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October 27
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October 28
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October 29
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October 30
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- 1735 – John Adams (pictured), champion of the Declaration of Independence, second President of the United States, and Founding Father, was born.
- 1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
- 1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
- 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
- 1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
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October 31
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