WORLD Animal Day
NATIONAL Golf Day
NATIONAL Ship in a Bottle Day
NATIONAL Improve Your Office Day
NATIONAL Taco Day
NATIONAL Vodka Day
NATIONAL Golf Lover's Day
NATIONAL Walk to School Day [first Wednesday of October]
NATIONAL Pumpkin Seed Day [first Wednesday of October]
NATIONAL Kale Day [first Wednesday of October]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1895 The first US Open Golf tournament was held in Newport, Rhode Island
1927 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting the heads of four US presidents on Mount Rushmore
1957 Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, is launched, beginning the “space race”
1965 Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope ever to visit the US and the Western hemisphere
1976 In Gregg v. Georgia, the US Supreme Court lifts the ban on the death sentence in murder cases, restoring the legality of capital punishment. The first execution following this ruling was of Gary Gilmore in 1977.
1985 The Free Software Foundation is founded to promote universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software
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