The Hagerstown Town and Country Almanack was established in 1797, making it the second oldest almanac in the United States.
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As their band played The World Turned Upside Down, the British Army surrendered to the Americans at Yorktown on October 19, 1781. More than 7,000 troops, led by British General Lord Cornwallis, surrendered to General George Washington, effectively ending the Revolutionary War.
During World War II in the Pacific, General Douglas MacArthur set foot on Philippine soil on October 20, 1944, for the first time since his escape in 1942, fulfilling his promise, "I shall return."
The Almanack sees several heavy rain producers in the Southeast in November and a hard freeze. Our Thanksgiving and Christmas outlooks for the East were posted about two weeks ago: almanack.com/2026-weathertra…
ALT A man in blue walking under heavy rain with umbrella on a tree-lined path.
On October 19, 1987, "Black Monday" occurred on Wall Street, as stocks plunged a record 508 points or 22.6%, the largest one-day drop in stock market history.
We had forecasted a light frost around October 21 that came to fruition on October 18 and talked about snow for the Interior Northeast on October 16-18 that verified just a few days ago.
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial began on October 18, 1945 with indictments against 24 former Nazi leaders. The trial lasted 10 months, concluding on October 1, 1946. Twelve Nazis were sentenced to death, three to life imprison, four to lesser prison terms, and three acquitted.
On this day in 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, British General John Burgoyne and his entire army of 5,700 men surrendered to American General Horatio Gates after the Battle of Saratoga, the first big American victory.
Yale University was founded in Killingworth, Connecticut (as the Collegiate School of Connecticut) on October 16, 1701. The school moved to New Haven in 1716 and two years later, was renamed Yale College to honor Elihu Yale, a philanthropist. In 1886, it became Yale University.
Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod, better known by the stage name 'Mata Hari', was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. A firing squad executed her in France on October 15, 1917.
October's weather has been a wild ride and our forecast has captured it! A few forecasts are off by a couple of days, but our 2026 publication was available to readers before Labor Day in 2025!
Today, we honor Christopher Columbus, who explored the Americas under the flag of Spain. Some people consider him the "discoverer" of America, but this is not strictly true. His voyages across the Atlantic paved the way for European colonization and exploitation of the Americas.
On October 13, 1775, the United States Navy was born after the Second Continental Congress authorized the acquisition of a fleet of ships.
PJM Interconnection is a regional transmission organization (RTO) that manages the wholesale electricity market and coordinates the high-voltage power grid across parts of 13 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
PJM Interconnection is a regional transmission organization (RTO) that manages the wholesale electricity market and coordinates the high-voltage power grid across parts of 13 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
PJM Interconnection is a regional transmission organization (RTO) that manages the wholesale electricity market and coordinates the high-voltage power grid across parts of 13 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
There were showers in the Northeast in early October but no flooding, so we missed that severe weather forecast. We did forecast hot temperatures in the Mid-Atlantic October 9-10.
The Almanack forecasted a hurricane to hit the Southeast on September 16-18 and it actually happened 21 days on October 9.
After a 33-day voyage, Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the New World in the Bahamas on October 12, naming the land El Salvador. He was seeking a sea route from Europe to Asia, believed it to be an island of the Indies, calling the island natives 'Indians.'
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