Sicilian Culture: This Day in Italian & Sicilian History: October

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This Day in History:
Italian Contributions in the Month of October

The root comes from the word octo, or the 8th month in the old calendar.

October 3
1963 Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
October 4
1949 Actor Armand Assante born in New York
October 5
1949 You're Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
1959 Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
October 7
1927 Singer Al Martino
October 9
1940 Joe Pepitone
October 10
1813 Composer Guiseppe Verdi
October 12
1492 Christopher Columbus, sailing under the Spanish flag since his native Italy thought he was insane, arrived in Watling Island in the Bahamas. He originally set out to find a new trade route to India, and he first believed that he had he had found Asia. The world was still thought to be flat at that time and even his crew attempted mutiny when the trip went longer than planned and they were running short of food. He had left on August 3rd with 3 ships containing 120 men, the Pinta, the Nina, and the flagship Santa Maria.
1935 Opera Singer Luciano Pavarotti born
October 13
1943 Italy declares war on its former allie, Nazi Germany, a month after surrendering to the Allied Forces.
1962 Sherry - The 4 Seasons
October 15
70 BC Poet Virgil
1921 Novelist Mario Puzo born
1924 Auto CEO Lee (Lido) Iacocca born
October 16
1959 Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
October 22
1885 Tenor Giovanni Martinelli
1942 Actress Annette Funicello
October 23
42 BC Brutus Commits Suicide Marcus Junius Brutus, a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, commits suicide after his defeat at the Battle of Philippi.
October 25
1881 Artist Pablo Picasso
October 28
1963 Donna the Prima Donna - Dion DiMucci
October 29
1986 True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
October 30
1893 Bodybuilder Charles Atlas (born as Angelo Siciliano)
1961 Runaround Sue - Dion

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