1805 - 45 women meet at Mrs. Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, and organize the Female Charitable Society, one of the earliest women's clubs in America
1925 - French General Sarrail bombs Damascus (ends October 20)
1954 - Hurricane Hazel becomes the most severe to ever hit the US, killing 195 in the US and Canada
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