October is considered a National Apple Month, National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month, a National Pasta Month,  Marks’ Collectors Month and Month of Cosmetology.

1. 1811. The first steamboat having sailed down the Mississippi River, reached the shores of New Orleans, Louisiana. The only passengers (in addition to the team, servants, cooks, dogs) were the owners of the ship – Nicholas Roosvelt and his wife.

2. 1847. The first American woman astronomer Maria Mitchell discovered a comet. She was awarded a gold medal by the King of Denmark.

3. 1880. In the U.S., the first factory for the production of incandescent lamps was opened. It was located in Manley Park, New Jersey.

4. 1940. Pennsylvania Turnpike – the first in America turnpike – was opened this day.

5. 1949. In the United States, the first rectangular television tubes were launched for production. Their proportions were 12 inches (30 cm) for 16 inches (40 cm).

6. 1993. A 12-year-old Polly Klaas was kidnapped from her mother’s home in Petaluma, California. The search had lasted for more than two months. The suspect in the murder Richard Allen Davis confessed to the murder and showed the place where the body had been buried.