- Country Inn and Bed & Breakfast Day
- Guardian Angels Day
- Intergeneration Day
- National Custodial Workers Day
- Phileas Fogg’s Wager Day
- National Name Your Car Day
- Poetry Day
- National French Fried Scallops Day
- International Day Of Non-Violence
- World Farm Animals Day
- Independence Day-Guinea
- On This Day
- 1780 --- During the American War for Independence, British Major John Andre’ is hanged as a spy by U.S. military forces in Tappan, New York. Ten days before, Andre’ had been apprehended by three highwaymen sympathetic to the Patriot cause, and they turned him over to U.S. authorities after finding intelligence information hidden in his boot. The intelligence papers revealed that Andre’ was returning from a secret meeting with U.S. General Benedict Arnold, who, as the commander of West Point, had offered to surrender the strategic Hudson River fort for a bribe of $20,000. With the plot uncovered, Arnold fled to the British warship Vulture and joined the British in their fight against his country. Benedict Arnold had been a hero of the Patriot cause, distinguishing himself in a number of battles, but henceforth his name became synonymous with the word "traitor" in American speech.
- 1836 --- The British naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England, aboard the HMS Beagle, ending a five-year surveying expedition of the southern Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Visiting such diverse places as Brazil, the Galapagos Islands, and New Zealand, Darwin acquired an intimate knowledge of the flora, fauna, and geology of many lands. This information proved invaluable in the development of his theory of evolution, first put forth in his groundbreaking scientific work of 1859, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- 1875 --- The 755 room Palace Hotel opened in San Francisco. It was destroyed by the April 18, 1906 earthquake and subsequent fire. It was rebuilt and the 'New' Palace Hotel opened on December 19, 1909.
- 1876 --- The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opened. It was the state's first venture into public higher education.
- 1908 --- For the fourth time in history, baseball fans saw a perfect game. Cleveland pitcher Addie Joss never let Chicago near the bases as Cleveland won, 1-0.
- 1919 --- At the White House in Washington, D.C., United States President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke that leaves him partially paralyzed on his left side and effectively ends his presidential career.
- 1920 --- The Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates played the only triple-header in baseball history. The Reds won 2 of the 3 games.
- 1925 --- Scottish inventor John Logie Baird completed the first transmission of moving images.
- 1944 --- The Warsaw Uprising ends with the surrender of the surviving Polish rebels to German forces. Two months earlier, the approach of the Red Army to Warsaw prompted Polish resistance forces to launch a rebellion against the Nazi occupation. The rebels, who supported the democratic Polish government-in-exile in London, hoped to gain control of the city before the Soviets "liberated" it. The Poles feared that if they failed to take the city the Soviet conquerors would forcibly set up a pro-Soviet communist regime in Poland.
- 1948 --- The first automobile race to use asphalt, cement and dirt roads took place in Watkins Glen in New York. It was the first road race in the U.S. following World War II.
- 1949 --- “Hennnnnnreeeeee! Henry Aldrich!” “Coming, Mother!” The popular radio program, The Aldrich Family, became one of TV’s first hits, as the longtime radio show appeared on NBC-TV for the first time.
- 1950 --- The renowned comic strip Peanuts, from the pen of cartoonist Charles Schulz, began on this in seven U.S. newspapers. The strip, for the United Features Syndicate, had only three characters at its inception: Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty (Reichardt) and Shermy. The world’s most famous beagle, Snoopy, made his first appearance on October 4th.
- 1953 --- Edward R. Murrow, with lit cigarette in hand, premiered the popular interview program “Person to Person” which would establish him as a TV icon.
- 1955 --- “Good Eeeeeeevening.” The master of mystery movies, Alfred Hitchcock, presented his brand of suspense to millions of viewers on CBS. The man who put the thrill in thriller would visit viewers each week for ten years with Alfred Hitchcock Presents. And who could forget that theme song “The Funeral March of a Marionette”?
- 1958 --- The former French colony of Guinea declares its independence, with Sekou Toure as the new nation's first leader. Guinea was the sole French West African colony to opt for complete independence, rather than membership in the French Community, and soon thereafter France withdrew all aid to the new republic.
- 1959 --- "The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes. Each episode began with this very familiar introduction, “There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fear and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the twilight zone.
- 1963 --- Pitcher Sandy Koufax struck out New York Yankee Harry Bright to end game one of the World Series. Bright was Koufax’ 15th strikeout victim, breaking the World Series single game record of 14 set by Brooklyn’s Carl Erskine against the Yankees in 1953
- 1963 --- Hurricane Flora crashes into Haiti, killing thousands of people. This huge storm, which also killed large numbers of people in Cuba and wreaked havoc elsewhere in the Caribbean, was one of the most deadly hurricanes in history.
- 1965 --- The Who made their debut on U.S. TV on the show "Shindig!"
- 1967 --- Thurgood Marshall, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, was sworn in as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall was the first black Supreme Court justice and served until his retirement on June 27, 1991, at the age of 82.
- 1967 --- The Grateful Dead, all six members, were arrested for possession of marijuana. They were released six hours later on bail.
- 1968 --- St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson strikes out 17 Detroit Tigers in the first game of the World Series, breaking Sandy Koufax’s record for the most strikeouts in a Series game. Though the Cards ended up losing the Series in seven games, Gibson pitched three and struck out an unprecedented 35 batters.
- 1985 --- Rock Hudson, a quintessential tall, dark and handsome Hollywood leading man during the 1950s and 1960s who made more than 60 movies during his career, dies at the age of 59 from acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Beverly Hills, California. Earlier that same year, Hudson announced through a press release that he was suffering from the disease, becoming the first major celebrity to go public with such a diagnosis.
- 1990 --- The Senate voted 90-9 to confirm Supreme Court nominee David H. Souter.
- 1993 --- Opponents of Russian President Boris Yeltsin fought police and set up burning barricades.
- 2000 --- The International Space Station got its first residents as an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule for a four-month stay.
- 2001 --- NATO, for the first time, invoked a treaty clause that stated that an attack on one member is an attack on all members. The act was in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.
- Birthdays
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Annie Leibovitz
- Groucho (Julius) Marx
- Don McLean
- Richard III
- Nat Turner
- Bud Abbott
- Graham Greene
- Maury Wills
- Sting
- 275th Day of the Year / 90 Remaining
- Winter Begins in 80 Days
- Sunrise:7:06
- Sunset:6:50
- 11Hours 44 Minutes
- Moon Rise:2:56pm
- Moon Set:12:35am
- Moon Phase:61%
- Full Moon October 8 @ 3:50am
- Full Hunter’s Moon
- Full Blood Moon
- Full Sanguine Moon
This full Moon is often referred to as the Full Hunter’s Moon, Blood Moon, or Sanguine Moon. Many moons ago, Native Americans named this bright moon for obvious reasons. The leaves are falling from trees, the deer are fattened, and it’s time to begin storing up meat for the long winter ahead. Because the fields were traditionally reaped in late September or early October, hunters could easily see fox and other animals that come out to glean from the fallen grains. Probably because of the threat of winter looming close, the Hunter’s Moon is generally accorded with special honor, historically serving as an important feast day in both Western Europe and among many Native American tribes.
- Tides
- High Tide:6:51am/5:48pm
- Low Tide:12:00pm