Portal:Geography/Selected anniversaries/October
Appearance
- 9 October 1851 – Work began on the constitution of the American Geographical Society, at a meeting held in the Geographical and Statistical Library in New York City
- 15 October 2011 – Beginning of broadcasting of National Geographic Farsi
- 31 October 1693 – Formation of township which later became city of Perth Amboy, New Jersey
- 31 October 1935 – Birth of geography and anthropology professor David Harvey (pictured), in Gillingham, Kent, South East England