OCTOBER 1, 1933 – Albert Collins is born Albert Gene Drewery in Leona, Texas .

OCTOBER 1, 1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.

OCTOBER 2, 1941 – John Sinclair is born in Flint, Michigan .

OCTOBER 2, 1943 – Suellen Rocca is born in Chicago , Illinois.

OCTOBER 2, 1949 – Richard Hell is born Richard Lester Meyers in Lexington, Kentucky .

OCTOBER 2, 1949 – Annie Leibovitz is born in Waterbury, Connecticut .

OCTOBER 2, 1950 - Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.

OCTOBER 3, 1925 – Gore Vidal is born in West Point, New York .

OCTOBER 3, 1936 – Steve Reich is born in New York City, New York .

OCTOBER 3, 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland .

OCTOBER 4, 1895 – Buster Keaton is born in Piqua, Kansas .

OCTOBER 4, 1917 – Violeta Parra is born Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval in San Carlos, Chile.

OCTOBER 4, 1985 - Richard Stallman founds The Free Software Foundation in Cambridge, Massachusetts

OCTOBER 4, 1989 – Audra The Rapper is born in Washington, DC.

OCTOBER 5, 1936 – Vaclav Havel is born in Prague, Czech Republic .

OCTOBER 5, 1945 - Set decorators riot at the gates of Warner Brothers Studios in Hollywood, California .

OCTOBER 5, 1953 – Puma Jones is born Sandra Jones in Columbia, South Carolina .

OCTOBER 6, 1870 – Enid Yandell is born in Louisville, Kentucky .

OCTOBER 6, 1942 – Britt Ekland is born Britt-Marie Eklund in Stockholm, Sweden .

OCTOBER 6, 1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer , the first prominent talking movie.

OCTOBER 7, 1873 – George Cram Cook is born in Davenport, Iowa .

OCTOBER 7, 1908 – Mario Sanchez is born in Key West, Florida .

OCTOBER 7, 1955 - Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco, California .

OCTOBER 8, 1959 – Gavin Friday is born Fionán Martin Hanvey in Dublin, Ireland .

OCTOBER 8, 2001 - George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.

OCTOBER 9, 1940 – John Lennon is born in Liverpool, England .

OCTOBER 9, 1947 – France Gall is born Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall in Paris, France .

OCTOBER 9, 1986 – The Phantom of the Opera receives its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, England .

OCTOBER 10, 1862 – Archie Chaloner is born John Armstrong Chanler in New York City, New York .

OCTOBER 10, 1878 – Blanche Lazzell is born Nettie Blanche Lazzell in Monongalia County, West Virginia .

OCTOBER 10, 1924 – Ed Wood is born in Poughkeepsie, New York .

OCTOBER 10, 1946 – John Prine is born in Maywood, Illinois .

OCTOBER 10, 1913 - Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.

OCTOBER 11, 1809 - Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.

OCTOBER 11, 1874 – Mary Heaton Vorse O'Brien is born in New York City, New York .

OCTOBER 11, 1891 – George C. Ault is born in Cleveland, Ohio .

OCTOBER 11, 1891 – Edwin Dickinson is born in Seneca Falls, New York .

OCTOBER 11, 1919 – Art Blakey is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .

OCTOBER 12, 1932 – Dick Gregory is born in St. Louis, Missouri .

OCTOBER 12, 1979 - Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is published.

OCTOBER 13, 1925 – Lenny Bruce is born Leonard Alfred Schneider in Mineola, New York .

OCTOBER 13, 1773 - The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.

OCTOBER 14, 1893 – Lillian Gish is born in Springfield, Ohio .

OCTOBER 14, 1926 - Winnie-the-Pooh , by A. A. Milne , is first published.

OCTOBER 15, 1844 – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is born in Röcken, Prussia .

OCTOBER 15, 1924 – José Quintero is born in Panama City, Panama.

OCTOBER 15, 2011 - Global protests erupt in 120 cities in 48 countries.

OCTOBER 16, 1854 – Oscar Wilde is born in Dublin, Ireland .

OCTOBER 16, 1888 – Eugene O'Neill is born in New York City, New York .

OCTOBER 16, 1938 – Nico is born Christa Päffgen in Cologne, Germany .

OCTOBER 16, 1943 – Cherry Vanilla is born Kathleen Dorritie in Queens, New York .

OCTOBER 16, 1916 - In Brooklyn, New York , Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.

OCTOBER 17, 1859 – Frederick Childe Hassam is born in Boston, Massachusetts .

OCTOBER 17, 1918 – Rita Hayworth is born Margarita Carmen Cansino in Brooklyn, New York .

OCTOBER 17, 1994 - Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated.

OCTOBER 18, 1898 – Lotte Lenya is born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer in Vienna, Austria .

OCTOBER 18, 1926 – Chuck Berry is born in St. Louis, Missouri .

OCTOBER 18, 1940 – Cynthia Weil is born in New York City, New York .

OCTOBER 18, 1954 - Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.

OCTOBER 19, 1945 – Divine is born Harris Glenn Milstead in Baltimore, Maryland .

OCTOBER 19, 1864 - Confederate soldiers launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.

OCTOBER 20, 1937 – Wanda Jackson is born in Maud, Oklahoma .

OCTOBER 20, 1977 - Lynyrd Skynyrd 's plane crashes.

OCTOBER 21, 1891 – Karl Knaths is born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin .

OCTOBER 21, 1917 – Dizzy Gillespie is born John Birks Gillespie in Cheraw, South Carolina .

OCTOBER 21, 1925 – Celia Cruz is born in Havana, Cuba .

OCTOBER 21, 1946 – Lux Interior is born Erick Lee Purkhiser in Akron, Ohio .

OCTOBER 21, 1892 - Opening ceremonies begin at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois .

OCTOBER 22, 1811 – Franz Liszt is born in Raiding, Austria .

OCTOBER 22, 1882 – N.C. Wyeth is born Newell Convers Wyeth in Needham, Massachusetts .

OCTOBER 22, 1887 – John Reed is born in Portland, Oregon .

OCTOBER 22, 1920 – Timothy Leary is born in Springfield, Massachusetts .

OCTOBER 22, 1943 – Catherine Deneuve is born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac in Paris, France .

OCTOBER 22, 2001 - Grand Theft Auto III is released.

OCTOBER 23, 1956 – Dwight Yoakam is born in Pikeville, Kentucky .

OCTOBER 23, 1958 - The Smurfs appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs .

OCTOBER 24, 1970 – Jeff Mangum is born in Ruston, Louisiana .

OCTOBER 24, 1947 - Walt Disney throws his employees under the bus before the House Un-American Activities Committee .

OCTOBER 25, 1881 – Pablo Picasso is born in Malaga, Spain .

OCTOBER 25, 1959 – Chrissy Amphlett is born in Victoria, Australia .

OCTOBER 25, 1962 - Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.

OCTOBER 26, 1776 - Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.

OCTOBER 26, 1842 – Vasily Vereshchagin is born in Cherepovets, Russia .

OCTOBER 26, 1904 – Rosamond Pinchot is born in New York City, New York .

OCTOBER 26, 1911 – Mahalia Jackson is born in New Orleans, Louisiana .

OCTOBER 26, 1951 – Julian Schnabel is born in Brooklyn, New York .

OCTOBER 26, 1985 – Soko is born Stéphanie Sokolinski in Bordeaux, France .

OCTOBER 27, 1811 – Isaac Singer is born in Pittstown, New York .

OCTOBER 27, 1923 – Roy Lichtenstein is born in New York City, New York .

OCTOBER 27, 1838 - Missouri . governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order , which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.

OCTOBER 28, 1902 – Elsa Lanchester is born in London, England .

OCTOBER 28, 1909 – Francis Bacon is born in Dublin, Ireland .

OCTOBER 28, 1932 – Suzy Parker is born Cecilia Ann Renee Parker in Long Island City, New York .

OCTOBER 28, 1886 - Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

OCTOBER 28, 1968 – Caitlin Cary is born in Raleigh, North Carolina .

OCTOBER 29, 1951 – Mary Boone is born in Erie, Pennsylvania .

OCTOBER 29, 1971 – Winona Ryder is born in Olmsted County, Minnesota .

OCTOBER 29, 1964 - The T.A.M.I. SHOW is filmed at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

OCTOBER 29, 1971 - Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia .

OCTOBER 30, 1885 – Ezra Pound is born in Hailey, Idaho Territory .

OCTOBER 30, 1896 – Ruth Gordon is born in Quincy, Massachusetts .

OCTOBER 30, 1939 – Grace Slick is born in Highland Park, Illinois .

OCTOBER 30, 1965 - Jean Shrimpton dons a white minidress on Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia .

OCTOBER 31, 1896 – Ethel Waters is born in Chester, Pennsylvania .

OCTOBER 31, 1902 – Marie-Laure de Noailles is born in Paris, France .

OCTOBER 31, 2011 - The population of humans on planet Earth reaches seven billion.