Welcome to the Speas Global Elementary Blog!
Our Mission: It is the mission of Speas Elementary School to provide its students with the tools necessary to successfully meet the challenges they will face in a diverse world.
Goals:
To increase English Language Arts achievement by 10%To increase Mathematics achievement by 10%
To increase Science Achievement by 10%
picture by C. Cardona
Check out this graphic about global education. The things above water are just the tip of the iceberg. Try to go deeper in your instruction and touch some of the issues below the surface.
How can praising Bee's for effort impact their attitudes. Another look at Growth Mindset.
Two Videos, Two tales; which one is true? To get the full effect, watch them in order.
Ms. Burleson and Mr. Cokley have claimed the title of "First Contact." Using the website 'epals', they have actually contacted 3 classrooms from 3 different coutries, India, Australia, and.....well, I cannot remember the last one. But, the evidence has been confirmed. Teachers, if you are doing something similar, please let us know, we'd love to see it.
http://www.epals.com/#!/main
Check out Mrs. Z's Global World Wall (Great Idea!)
ISS
Specialists will begin holding ISS in their respective areas on their assigned days on 10.8. The schedule is below. Teachers, specialists may be contacting you for work for students assigned to ISS. Please get them work as soon as possible.
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Location
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A
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Arora
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Room 213
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B
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Bowen
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Music
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C
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King
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Art
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D
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Childers/McMasters
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Media/CL
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E
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Lindquist
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Gym
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Announcements:
The Bird Show was awesome!!!! Thanks to Mr. Ash for giving our students that very unique experience.
Tomorrow's hours are 7:30-3:30. The building will close promptly at 4 PM.
There is no agenda for tomorrow. It is a true workday. We do encourage teachers to get caught up on their GSN.
The Bird Show was awesome!!!! Thanks to Mr. Ash for giving our students that very unique experience.
Tomorrow's hours are 7:30-3:30. The building will close promptly at 4 PM.
There is no agenda for tomorrow. It is a true workday. We do encourage teachers to get caught up on their GSN.
Mrs. Merrill has made it easy for your class to vote for Specials Bee Incentives. There is a Smart file on the S drive under PBIS/Specials Bee Incentive Vote 2014. Just drag that file onto your desktop, open and use.
All staff members, let's make sure we are teaching, reteaching, and teaching again the procedures in the common areas (Hallway, Cafeteria, Bathrooms, Playground, Bus). We should be giving out lots of Bee's for students demonstrating the basic expectations. It is a good idea to review the procedures before you leave one area to travel to another area.
SMOD Tickets (dress code violations) are located in the workroom. Please keep the bottom portion for your own records as a way to keep track of the number of violations. The continuum is as follows:
1st offense: verbal warning, and letter will be sent home to be signed. Parent or guardian notified of violation
2nd offense: Teacher notifies parent or guardian and student is removed from class until proper SMOD is delivered.
(Teachers, we all should be enforcing this, it will only work if we all enforce it).
Calendar
Thanks to Ryabova for sending us this video of great ideas for global activities at Speas.
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PLT
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Encore
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T/M
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Gym
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Events/Reminders
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10.30
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2
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E
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X
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Last day of Tiger Kims afterschool; Kinder. Woosley Farm 9:30-1:30; Happy Birthday Copeland!!!!
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10.31
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No School for Students. Happy Birthday Barnes!!!!!
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11.2
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Faith Festival, need volunteers see Arora if you can help
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11.3
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3
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A
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Y
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Mt. Airy Schools Visit
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11.4
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4
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B
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Y
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Mt. Airy Schools Visit; 3rd Grade Heritage Theater
8:30-11:30
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11.5
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5
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C
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Y
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11.6
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6
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D
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Y
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Picture Retakes
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11.7
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1
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E
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Y
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Happy Birthday Uzcategui!!!!
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11.10
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2
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A
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X
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Staff Meeting?
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11.11
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No School Veterans Day Holiday Happy Birthday
Odom!!!!!
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11.12
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3
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B
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X
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11.13
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4
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C
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X
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Quarterly Awards
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11.14
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5
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D
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X
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2nd Grade
Rescue Ranch; Yoforia Movie Night
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11.17
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6
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E
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X
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11.18
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1
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A
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Y
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4/5 Assembly Café 9 AM WS Symphony; Committee Meetings
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11.19
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2
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B
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Y
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11.20
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3
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C
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Y
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11.21
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4
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D
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Y
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11.24
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5
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E
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Y
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11.25
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6
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A
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X
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12.3
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Happy Birthday Stokes!!!!!!!
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12.7
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Happy Birthday Spainhour!!!!!!
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12.9
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Staff Meeting
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12.11
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Papa Murphy’s Spirit Night, Staff Holiday Luncheon
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12.16
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Committee Meetings
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12.18
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Happy Birthday SR!!!!!!!; Yoforia Spirit Night
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12.19
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Student Gift Bags go home
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12.22
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Happy Birthday K. Johnson!!!!!!!
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12.23
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Happy Birthday Vidal Cuenca!!!!!!!!
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12.28
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Happy Birthday Lindquist!!!!!!!
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12.29
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Happy Birthday Higgins!!!!!!!
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1.1
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Happy Birthday Farra!!!!!!!!
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1.2
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Happy Birthday Hart!!!!!!!!!
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1.8
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Subway Night
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1.15
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Happy Birthday Summey!!!!!!!!
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1.17
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Happy Birthday Bumbrey!!!!!!!
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1.20
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Happy Birthday Linville!!!!!!!!!
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1.22
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Yoforia Spirit Night
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1.23
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Happy Birthday Brown!!!!!!!!
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1.24
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Happy Birthday Bushey!!!!!!!!!
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1.29
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Quarterly Awards
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2.9
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Happy Birthday Billingsley!!!!!!!
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2.13
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Yoforia Movie Night
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2.15
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Happy Birthday Cartwright!!!!!!!
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2.22
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Happy Birthday Cokely!!!!!!!!!!
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2.26
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Happy Birthday Ryabova!!!!!!!!!
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3.7
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Happy Birthday Faragher!!!!!!
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3.12
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Chik-fil-A Spirit Night
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3.19
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Happy Birthday Pfitzner!!!!!!!; Yoforia Spirit Night
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3.23
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Happy Birthday Smith!!!!!!!
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3.27
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Happy Birthday Ferguson!!!!!!!
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3.29
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Happy Birthday Mitchell!!!!!!!!
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4.9
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Quarterly Awards
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4.10
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1st Grade Dan Nicholas Park 8:30-2:00
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4.16
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Yoforia Spirit Night
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4.17
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Kids Night In Movie Night
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5.14
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Papa Murphy’s Spirit Night
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5.7
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4th Grade Heritage Theater, New Winston Museum
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5.22
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1st Grade NC Zoo
8:00-2:00 PM; Yoforia Movie Night
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Thanks to Ryabova for sending us this video of great ideas for global activities at Speas.
Language of the month website: Really Cool!
Teachers, when you are ready to take your Global Studies to the next level try these links:
http://www.slideshare.net/langwitches/get-connected-around-the-world-with-skype
https://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/projects-and-resources/skype-in-the-classroom
http://www.comparea.org/FXX+AUS?utm_content=buffer6fa14&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/ipad-apps-virtual-field-trips-monica-burns?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-virtualtripapps-repost2
This Day in World History
On This Day in History
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Events
| * 701 | John VI of Greece begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| * 942 | Alberic nominates Pope Marinus II (Martinus III) |
| * 1077 | German king Henry IV gives away bisdom Utrecht county Staveren |
| * 1270 | 8th & last crusade is launched |
| * 1389 | French king Charles VI visits pope Clemens VII |
| * 1468 | Charles the Stout occupies & plunders Luik |
| * 1485 | King Henry VII Tudor crowned "Yeomen of the Guard" |
| * 1489 | Peace of Tours, between emperor Maximilian I & Flemings |
| * 1493 | Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica |
| * 1503 | Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against indians |
| * 1534 | English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope |
| * 1611 | Gustaaf II Adolf (17) becomes king of Sweden |
| * 1629 | King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath |
| * 1697 | Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Neth/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War |
| * 1739 | England declares war on Spain: War of Jenkin's Ear [NS=Oct 19] |
| * 1768 | 1st Methodist church in US initiated (Wesley Chapel, NYC) |
| * 1772 | Capt Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown |
| * 1775 | 1st navy in US forms |
| * 1851 | Alfred de Mussets "Bettine," premieres in Paris |
| * 1862 | Dr Richard Gatling patents machine gun |
| * 1864 | Helena, Montana's capital, founded |
| * 1866 | Jesse James gang robs bank in Lexington Missouri ($2000) |
| * 1868 | John Menard of Louisiana is 1st black elected to Congress |
| * 1871 | Phila Athletics beat Chicago for 1st Natl Assn baseball pennant |
| * 1873 | P T Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth," debuts (NYC) |
| * 1883 | Austria-Hungary/Germany/Romania signs military treaty |
| * 1886 | Great-Britain/Germany divide boundaries in East-Africa |
| * 1888 | In London, Jack the Ripper murders his last victim |
| * 1888 | John J Loud patents ballpoint pen |
| * 1888 | Ndebele-king Lobengula grants Cecil Rhodes, Mashonaland œ100 per month |
| * 1893 | Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 |
| * 1894 | Daniel Cooper patents time clock |
| * 1896 | Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator |
| * 1899 | Battle at Ladysmith Natal: Boers beat lt-general Whites army |
| * 1899 | British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown |
| * 1900 | 1st-ever US auto show opens in Madison Square Garden in NYC |
| * 1901 | Battle at Bakenlaagte: lt-col Bensons unit vs Boers |
| * 1905 | "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties |
| * 1905 | GB Shaw's "Mrs Warren's Profession," premieres in NYC |
| * 1905 | Tsar of Russia accepts 1st Duma (Parliament) |
| * 1911 | Clark Griffith is named manager of Wash Senators |
| * 1914 | Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) begins |
| * 1917 | British govt gives final approval to Balfour Declaration |
| * 1918 | Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state |
| * 1919 | Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball |
| * 1922 | Anxious to compete with the Yankees, the NY Giants pay $65,000 & 3 players for Jack Bentley (hits .349 & is 13-1 as pitcher in 1922) |
| * 1922 | Mussolini forms govt in Italy |
| * 1925 | KUT-AM in Austin TX begins radio transmissions |
| * 1930 | Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship |
| * 1931 | W2XB TV channel 1 in NYC, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| * 1938 | Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds" |
| * 1939 | USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews |
| * 1939 | German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound & Charles Forbes aboard |
| * 1940 | Cole Porters musical "Panama hattie," premieres in NYC |
| * 1941 | USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war |
| * 1942 | 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault |
| * 1942 | US aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noum‚a |
| * 1943 | Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina |
| * 1943 | Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN |
| * 1943 | Soviet forces under Tolbuchin stick Sivash-bay about |
| * 1944 | Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring," premieres in Wash DC |
| * 1944 | Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen |
| * 1944 | Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau |
| * 1944 | Scottish Highlanders liberate Waalwijk |
| * 1944 | Sweden announces intention to stay neutral & refuse sanctuary in WW II |
| * 1944 | Tholen Island freed |
| * 1945 | Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals |
| * 1945 | US government announces end of shoe rationing |
| * 1947 | 23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva |
| * 1947 | Darius Milhauds 3rd Symphony "Hymnus Ambrosianus," premieres in Paris |
| * 1948 | 20 die & 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania |
| * 1948 | Operation Hiram: Israelis take control of Galilee |
| * 1949 | "Lost in the Stars" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 281 perfs |
| * 1949 | Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson's musical premieres in NYC |
| * 1950 | David Diamond's 3rd Symphony, premieres |
| * 1951 | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| * 1952 | Clarence Birdseye sells 1st frozen peas |
| * 1953 | Dr Albert Schweitzer & Gen George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize |
| * 1954 | Defense Department announces elimination of all segregated regiments |
| * 1954 | Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry |
| * 1954 | US Armed Forces end segregation of races |
| * 1955 | Imtiaz Ahmed scores 209 v NZ, the record for a no 8 batsman |
| * 1956 | Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad |
| * 1956 | Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961 |
| * 1957 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
| * 1957 | Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika |
| * 1957 | WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| * 1957 | WYTV TV channel 33 in Youngstown, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| * 1960 | Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba |
| * 1961 | Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb |
| * 1961 | UN unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general of the UN |
| * 1961 | Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square |
| * 1962 | US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| * 1963 | Morocco & Algeria signs cease fire |
| * 1963 | Sandy Koufax wins NL MVP award |
| * 1964 | Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam |
| * 1965 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open |
| * 1965 | Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia |
| * 1966 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open |
| * 1967 | Arthur Allyn says White Sox will play 9 games in Milwaukee in 1968 |
| * 1967 | Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time (48,093 km) |
| * 1967 | USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch |
| * 1968 | Jaqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios |
| * 1968 | Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics) |
| * 1968 | Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber) |
| * 1968 | Queen Juliana opens IJ tunnel in Amsterdam |
| * 1969 | WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, NH (IND) 1st broadcast |
| * 1970 | KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| * 1972 | 45 die in a train crash in Chicago Ill |
| * 1972 | Worst US rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago |
| * 1973 | Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award |
| * 1974 | Calif Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH) |
| * 1974 | Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award |
| * 1974 | Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire |
| * 1975 | Giants pitcher John "the Count of" Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year |
| * 1975 | John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| * 1975 | Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain |
| * 1975 | NY Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" |
| * 1976 | "Going Up" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 49 performances |
| * 1976 | Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show |
| * 1976 | Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ |
| * 1977 | Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07 |
| * 1978 | Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701-1 |
| * 1978 | Uganda troops attack Tanzania |
| * 1979 | NASA launches space vehicle S-203 |
| * 1979 | Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham |
| * 1980 | Honduras & El Salvador settle their boundary dispute |
| * 1980 | NASA launches Flt Satcom-4 |
| * 1982 | Portugal revises constitution |
| * 1984 | Tigers reliever Willie Hernandez wins AL Cy Young Award |
| * 1985 | 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched |
| * 1986 | Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modification are made |
| * 1988 | 2 gambling clubs & 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot |
| * 1988 | Beth Daniel wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship |
| * 1988 | Jim Elliott (US) completes 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi |
| * 1988 | NY Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time |
| * 1989 | August A Busch III becomes CEO of St Louis Cards |
| * 1989 | Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal) |
| * 1990 | England-France complete "Chunnel" |
| * 1991 | Colombian govt negotiate with M-19-guerrilla |
| * 1991 | Mark Sauer becomes CEO of Pitts Pirates |
| * 1991 | Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain |
| * 1991 | Singer Clint Black (34) weds actress Lisa Hartman (29) |
| * 1992 | MTA begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles |
| * 1993 | Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0 |
| * 1994 | Leftist coalition wins Marcedonia parliamentary election |
| * 1994 | Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel's Pentium-processor on Internet |
| * 1994 | US wins Nichirei LPGA Golf International |
| * 1995 | Quebec Referendum votes to remain part of Canada |
| * 1997 | "Cherry Orchard," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC |
| * 1997 | Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured |
