October 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
29 Miguel de Cervantes born (1547) Also try: Don Quixote John D. Rockefeller becomes America's first billionaire (1916) Also try: oil industry	30 Truman Capote born (1924) Also try: Breakfast at Tiffany's The Hoover Dam dedicated by FDR (1935) Also try: hydroelectricity	1 National Bullying Prevention Month Also try: cyberbullying Yosemite National Park established by US Congress (1890) Also try: sequoia forest Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg Trials (1946) Also try: Holocaust, war crimes	2 International Walk to School Day Also try: physical fitness, healthy habits International Day of Non-Violence Also try: Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. World Farm Animals Day Also try: cows, horses, chickens, pigs	3 National Butterfly and Hummingbird Day Also try: hummingbirds, pollinators East and West Germany reunify (1990) Also try: Berlin Wall	4 Construction begins on Mount Rushmore (1927) Also try: national monuments USSR launches Sputnik I (1957) Also try: space race	5 The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) debuts (1970) Also try: television, nonprofit organization
6 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture (1889) Also try: film history, Thomas Edison Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil of Proconsul africanus (1948) Also try: early humans, paleontology, anthropology	7 World Habitat Day Also try: conservationism, ecosystems Far side of the moon first observed by Luna 3 (1959) Also try: phases of the moon, space exploration 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 First pacemaker implanted (1958) Also try: heart, medical devices	9 Leif Erikson Day Also try: discovering North America The most recent supernova observed in the Milky Way (1604) Also try: Milky Way	10 Powers of Ten Day Also try: scientific notation, exponents Metric system conceived (1796) Also try: units of measurement	11 Eleanor Roosevelt born (1884) Also try: first ladies Second Boer War begins (1899) Also try: South African history	12 Fall Astronomy Day Also try: space exploration, solar system, universe The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy published (1979) Also try: science fiction
13 First spiral galaxy discovered by Charles Messier (1773) Also try: the universe, astronomy George Washington lays White House cornerstone (1792) Also try: George Washington, Washington DC	14 Indigenous Peoples' Day Also try: Native Americans Columbus Day Also try: discovering America, Italian explorers Dwight D. Eisenhower born (1890) Also try: US presidents First gay rights march on Washington, DC (1979) Also try: civil rights, protests	15 Hispanic Heritage Month ends Also try: Latin America, Spain Nelson Mandela awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1993) Also try: Nelson Mandela	16 Digital Citizenship Week begins Also try: internet safety, social media, digital privacy National Fossil Day Also try: archaeology, dinosaurs Noah Webster born (1758) Also try: dictionary skills, vocabulary development John Brown leads raid on Harpers Ferry (1859) Also try: John Brown	17 Black Poetry Day Also try: African American poets, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou US Department of Education created (1979) Also try: public education	18 Moby Dick published (1851) Also try: Herman Melville, symbolism	19 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, Revolutionary War ends (1781) Also try: Yorktown, American Revolution Saddam Hussein goes on trial for crimes against humanity (2005) Also try: crimes against humanity, Iraq War
20 US Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase (1803) Also try: westward expansion Sydney Opera House opens (1973) Also try: opera, Australia	21 National Reptile Awareness Day Also try: turtles, lizards, snakes Ferdinand Magellan discovers Strait of Magellan (1520) Also try: Strait of Magellan, explorers Thomas Edison unveils light bulb (1879) Also try: Thomas Edison, electricity Media Literacy Week begins Also try: critical thinking, digital media	22 Jean-Paul Sartre awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns it down (1964) Also try: existentialism, Nobel Prize Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus (1975) Also try: space missions, space exploration	23 Mole Day Also try: Avogadro's number, chemistry Women's Suffrage March in New York City (1915) Also try: 19th Amendment, voting rights	24 United Nations Day Also try: diplomacy, foreign relations Annie Edson Taylor becomes first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (1901) Also try: waterfalls	25 Pablo Picasso born (1881) Also try: cubism US invades Grenada (1983) Also try: Caribbean, Ronald Regan	26 Hillary Clinton born (1947) Also try: Secretary of State Erie Canal opens (1825) Also try: the Great Lakes
27 President Theodore Roosevelt born (1858) Also try: US presidents First New York City subway opens (1904) Also try: mass transit, public transportation	28 Statue of Liberty dedicated (1886) Also try: Liberty Island, New York City National Prohibition Act goes into effect (1919) Also try: Volstead Act, speakeasies Cuban Missile Crisis ends (1962) Also try: Cold War, Soviet Union, Cuba	29 Stock Market crashes, "Black Tuesday" (1929) Also try: Great Depression, stock market crash First ARPANET link established, precursor to the Internet (1969) Also try: computer networks, technology	30 John Adams born (1735) Also try: US presidents War of the Worlds radio broadcast (1938) Also try: H.G. Wells	31 Halloween Also try: costumes, Halloween traditions Seven Billion Day: global population reaches 7,000,000,000 (2011) Also try: population growth	1 American Indian & Alaska Native Heritage Month begins Also try: heritage, ancestors European Union comes into existence (1993) Also try: Europe	2 Day of the Dead Also try: Dia de los Muertos James Polk born (1795) Also try: US presidents Warren G. Harding born (1865) and elected president (1920) Also try: US presidents

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