October 1
101st Anniversary South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore was dedicated as a National Memorial (1935)
October 5
Frances Xavier Cabrini Day (Colorado)
October 10
Battle of Point Pleasant, Virginia (1774)
October 12
Columbus Day Indigenous Peoples’ Day
October 13
Congress establishes the U.S. Navy (1775)
October 19
Victory at Yorktown (1781)
October 20
251st anniversary of the Articles of Association, a universal probihition of trade with Great Britain (1774)
October 21
251st anniversary of the word Liber-ty, first dis- played on a flag raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts, in defiance of British rule in Colonial America (1774)
October 25
251st Anniversary: King George III spoke before the British Parlia-ment announcing the uprising in the American colonies and urging the quick suppression of the revolt (1775)
October 26
201st Anniversary The Erie Canal opened in New York, traversing 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo (1825)
251st anniversary of the Edenton Tea Party takes place in North Carolina, marking the first major gathering of women in support of the American cause (1774)
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