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SEPTEMBER 2023
09/01/23 Deseret Industries Opens
09/02/23 Japan Surrenders to End WWII
09/03/23 727-Pound Alligator
09/04/23 Labor Day
09/05/23 First Daily Seminary Class
09/06/23 The Mayflower Sails for America
09/07/23 Grandma Moses
09/08/23 David O. McKay
09/09/23 President Russell M. Nelson
09/10/23 Battle of Nauvoo
09/11/23 Patriot Day: Remembering 9/11
09/12/23 Henry Hudson and the Northwest Passage
09/13/23 National Uncle Sam Day
09/14/23 Francis S. Key Star Spangled Banner
09/15/23 Santiago Chile Temple
09/16/23 National Play-Doh Day
09/17/23 U.S. Constitution Day
09/18/23 Apostles Leave for Missions in Great Britain
09/19/23 George Washington’s Farewell Address
09/20/23 Fisher Ames, Forgotten Founding Father
09/21/23 The Angel Moroni Visits Joseph Smith
09/22/23 The Life and Death of Nathan Hale
09/23/23 John Paul Jones: Father of the American Navy
09/24/23 National Punctuation Day
09/25/23 The Bill of Rights
09/26/23 Johnny Appleseed Day
09/27/23 Sam Adams, Patriot
09/28/23 Louis Pasteur
09/29/23 King James Version of the Bible
09/30/23 Invitation to General Conference
OCTOBER 2023
10/01/23 First Major League Baseball World Series
10/02/23 Thurgood Marshall, First Black Supreme Court Justice
10/03/23 Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer
10/04/23 Call to Rescue the Handcart Companies
10/05/23 History of the Ball Point Pen
10/06/23 National Noodle Day
10/07/23 Henry Ford’s Moving Assembly Line
10/08/23 Fire Prevention Week and the Great Chicago Fire
10/09/23 Columbus Day
10/10/23 Hoover Dam Hydroelectric Project
10/11/23 Nathan Eldon Tanner
10/12/23 Bruce R. McConkie
10/13/23 United States Navy Established
10/14/23 National Dessert Day
10/15/23 Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
10/16/23 Noah Webster, An American Dictionary
10/17/23 The Monroe Doctrine
10/18/23 National Alaska Day
10/19/23 British Surrender at Yorktown
10/20/23 Louisiana Purchase and Westward Expansion
10/21/23 Thomas Edison Day
10/22/23 National Nut Day
10/23/23 Brigham Young University Founded
10/24/23 Orson Hyde Dedicates the Holy Land
10/25/23 The Letters of Abigail and John Adams
10/26/23 National Pumpkin Day
10/27/23 The Federalist Papers
10/28/23 National Geographic Magazine
10/29/23 Quilting and Harriet Powers
10/30/23 National Candy Corn Day
10/31/23 Halloween