WORLD Octopus Day
NATIONAL Clergy Appreciation Day [second Sunday in October]
Oktoberfest in Germany ends
American Touch Tag Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1871 The Great Chicago Fire begins in southwest Chicago, possibly in a barn owned by Patrick and Katherine O’Leary
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| Great Chicago Fire map with starting point |
1956 Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitched the first and only perfect game in a World Series
2001 US President George W. Bush establishes the Office of Homeland Security
2004 Martha Stewart began her prison sentence at Alderson Federal Prison Camp
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