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Aviation History Month
Child Safety Protection Month
National Adoption Awareness Month
- 1-8 National Family Literacy Week
All Saint's Day
World Vegetation Day
Dias de Los Muertos
National Author's Day
Stephen Crane
Nels A. Nelson
Ezra Pound
- 2-8 Chemistry Week
Culture Day
Sandwich Day
Thomas Mallon
George Bernard Shaw
- Housewife's Day
Terrence McNally
Martin Cruz Smith
- Sadie Hawkin's Day
Sterling North
Sam Shepard
Will Rogers
- Guy Fawkes Day
Thomas Aylesworth
James Jones
- Marooned Without a Compass Day
Saxophone Day
Roger Carr
James Jones
- Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
Cook Something Bold Day
Albert Camus
Lawrence Durrell
- Margaret Mitchell
Sarah Fielding
Kazuo Ishiguro
Bram Stoker
John Milton
Dylan Thomas
- 9-15 Children's Book Week
Chaos Never Dies Day
Carl Sagan
Ivan Turgenev
Anne Sexton
- Forget-Me-Not Day
USMC Day
Bruce Olds
Ken Kesey
- Veteran's Day-U.S.
Remembrance Day-Canada
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Fyodor Dostevsky
Carlos Fuentes
Mary Gaitskill
- Michael Bishop
Katherine Weber
- World Kindness Day
Robert Louis Stevenson
Nathaniel Benchley
Wanda Coleman
- Children's Day
Young Readers Day
Astrid Lindgren
William H. Hooks
- America Recycles Day
Marianne Moore
J.G. Ballard
Tibor Fischer
- George Eliot
Chinua Achebe
John F. Kennedy
Jack London
C.S. Lewis
- Take a Hike Day
World Peace Day
- 18-24 Game and Puzzle Week
Great American Smokeout
- Larry King
- Absurdity Day
Alistair Cooke
Leo Tolstoy
- World Hello Day
Voltaire
- Jamie Lee Curtis
- Welcome Day
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- International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Upton Sinclair
- Charles Schulz
Marguerite Henry
- Thanksgiving-USA
Dylan Thomas Alexandre Dumas
- William Blake
- Louisa May Alcott
C.S. Lewis
Madeleine L'Engle
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Mark Twain
Johathan Swift
John Bunyan
Oscar Wilde