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NATIONAL American Beer Day
NATIONAL Black Cat Day
NATIONAL Navy Day
NATIONAL Cranky Co-Workers Day
NATIONAL Frankenstein Friday [last Friday in October]
NATIONAL Breadstick Day [last Friday in October]
NATIONAL Tell a Story Day [in UK and Scotland]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1682 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded
1787 The first of the Federalist Papers, which called for the ratification of the US Constitution, was published
1791 President George Washington transmits to Congress the results of the first US census, exclusive of South Carolina which had not yet submitted its findings
1873 Farmer Joseph F. Glidden applies for a patent on barbed wire
1891 DB Downing, inventor, is awarded a patent for the street letter (mail) box
1938 Du Pont announced that it would name its new synthetic yarn nylon
1943 First women Marines report for duty on the West Coast, at Camp Pendleton
1971 The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire
1978 Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1988 US President Ronald Reagan decides to tear down a new US Embassy in Moscow because Soviet listening devices were built into the structure
1997 The Dow Jones industrial average fell 554.26 points, forcing the stock market to shut down
2004 After an 86 year wait, the Boston Red Sox finally captured a World Series trophy
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