October 2016 Curriculum Calendar - Lesson Plan Ideas by Date

Enhance your current curriculum with this fun reference calendar. Whether you want to highlight historic events, honor birthdays of significant people, or celebrate holidays, this is a valuable tool for every teacher. Click on any event to find a breadth of related teaching resources that will spark new ideas to spice up your daily lessons. There's something worth celebrating every day!

Curriculum Calendar

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Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
25 Shel Silverstein born (1930) Also try: poetry	26 Johnny Appleseed born (1774) Also try: apples Sir Francis Drake finishes circumnavigation of the earth (1580) Also try: circumnavigation, European explorers	27 Samuel Adams born (1722) Also try: Founding Fathers, Articles of Confederation, Continental Congress Ancestor Appreciation Day Also try: heritage, family tree	28 William the Conqueror invades England (1066) Also try: Battle of Hastings SpaceX launches first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1, into orbit (2008) Also try: space exploration	29 Common Program for the future People's Republic of China written (1949) Also try: Communism Miguel de Cervantes born (1547) Also try: Don Quixote	30 Truman Capote born (1924) Also try: Breakfast at Tiffany's Jack the Ripper kills third and fourth victims (1888) Also try: London	1 National Bullying Prevention Month Also try: cyberbullying Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg Trials (1946) Also try: Holocaust, war crimes Yosemite National Park established by U.S. Congress (1890) Also try: National Parks, sequoia forest
2 World Farm Animals Day Also try: cow, horse, chicken, pig, goat International Day of Non-Violence Also try: non-violent revolutions	3 East and West Germany reunify (1990) Also try: Berlin Wall The Treaty of Nissa signed ending the Russian-Turkish War (1739) Also try: Russian-Turkish War World Habitat Day Also try: conservation	4 USSR launches Sputnik I (1957) Also try: Space Race	5 The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) founded (1970) Also try: PBS Walk to School Day Also try: physical fitness	6 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture (1889) Also try: motion picture	7 Far side of the moon first observed by Luna 3 (1959) Also try: phases of the moon Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong's successor as chairman of Communist Party of China (1976) Also try: Mao Zedong	8 The Great Chicago Fire starts (1871) Also try: fire safety Fall Astronomy Day Also try: space exploration
9 The most recent supernova observed in the Milky Way (1604) Also try: Milky Way Leif Erikson Day Also try: discovering north america	10 Metric system conceived (1796) Also try: measurement Columbus Day Also try: discovering America, journey to the new world	11 Second Boer War begins (1899) Also try: Boer Wars	12 Columbus lands in the Bahamas (1492) Also try: Age of Discovery The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy published (1979) Also try: science fiction National Fossil Day Also try: fossil fuels, fossil record	13 George Washington lays White House cornerstone (1792) Also try: George Washington	14 Dwight D. Eisenhower born (1890) Also try: US Presidents First gay rights march on Washington, DC (1979) Also try: civil rights	15 Nelson Mandela awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1993) Also try: Nelson Mandela
16 John Brown leads raid on Harper's Ferry (1859) Also try: Harper's Ferry Noah Webster born (1758) Also try: dictionary	17 US Department of Education created (1979) Also try: public education Black Poetry Day Also try: African American Poets	18 Alaska purchased from Russia (1867) Also try: US expansion Moby Dick published (1851) Also try: Herman Melville, symbolism	19 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, Revolutionary War ends (1781) Also try: Yorktown, Revolutionary War Saddam Hussein goes on trial for crimes against humanity (2005) Also try: crimes against humanity	20 U.S. Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase (1803) Also try: westward expansion Sydney Opera House opens (1973) Also try: opera, Australia	21 Thomas Edison unveils light bulb (1879) Also try: Thomas Edison Ferdinand Magellan discovers Strait of Magellan (1520) Also try: Strait of Magellan Reptile Awareness Day Also try: turtles, lizards, snakes	22 Jean-Paul Sartre awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns it down (1964) Also try: existentialism Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus (1975) Also try: Venus
23 Women's Suffrage March (1915) Also try: 19th Amendment, voting rights	24 United Nations Day Also try: Model United Nations Annie Edson Taylor becomes first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (1901) Also try: waterfalls	25 Artist Pablo Picasso born (1881) Also try: cubism US invades Grenada (1983) Also try: Caribbean, Ronald Regan	26 Erie Canal opens (1825) Also try: colonial transportation Hillary Clinton born (1947) Also try: Secretary of State	27 President Theodore Roosevelt born (1858) Also try: US Presidents First New York City subway opens (1904) Also try: mass transportation	28 Statue of Liberty dedicated (1886) Also try: New York, Liberty Island National Prohibition Act passed (1919) Also try: Volstead Act, speakeasies Cuban Missile Crisis ends (1962) Also try: Cold War, Soviet Union, Cuba	29 First ARPANET link established, the Internet (1969) Also try: technology Stock Market crashes, "Black Tuesday" (1929) Also try: Great Depression, stock market crash
30 John Quincy Adams born (1735) Also try: US Presidents War of the Worlds broadcast (1938) Also try: Orson Wells	31 Halloween Also try: costumes, Halloween traditions Seven Billion Day: global population reaches 7,000,000,000 (2011) Also try: billion	1 Day of the Dead Also try: el dia de los muertos Native American Heritage Month Begins Also try: heritage European Union comes into existence (1993) Also try: Europe	2 The Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire (1914) Also try: WWI, Ottoman Empire	3 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize (1954) Also try: molecular biology	4 First wagon train on Oregon Trail reaches California (1841) Also try: Westward Movement, Oregon Trail	5 Guy Fawkes arrested for Gunpowder Plot (1605) Also try: Guy Fawkes Susan B. Anthony votes and is fined $100 (1872) Also try: women's suffrage, 19th Amendment

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