Historical Events
- Oct 1 1st edition of Maasbode published
Historic Publication
Oct 1 "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is published in America by Roberts Brothers of Boston
- Oct 1 St Pancras railway station opens in London, largest single span roof in the world (689ft (240m) long, 100ft high (30m) a high point of Victorian Gothic architecture [1]
- Oct 7 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
- Oct 10 1st written account of a Canadian football game
- Oct 10 Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
- Oct 17 Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect
- Oct 21 Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, California
- Oct 22 Jacques Offenbach's opera "Genevieve de Brabant" premieres in NYC
- Oct 26 White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La
- Oct 30 John Menard of Louisiana is 1st African American elected to US Congress
- Oct 31 Standard uniform approved for US postal carriers
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 4 Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of Argentina (1922-28), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1942)
- Oct 7 Fred Hovey, American tennis player (US Nationals 1895), born in Newton Centre, Massachusetts (d. 1945)
- Oct 8 Max Slevogt, German painter, born in Landshut, Germany (d. 1932)
- Oct 10 Guillermo M. Tomás, Cuban composer, born in Cienfuegos, Cuba (d. 1933)
- Oct 16 Franz X Ritter von Epp, German general (China)
- Oct 18 Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)
- Oct 19 Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major US city (Seattle)
- Oct 23 Frederick Lanchester, English Engineer who built the first British petrol automobile (1896), born in London, England (d. 1946)
- Oct 24 Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and writer, born in Saint-Mandé, France (d. 1969)
- Oct 27 Annie Patterson, Irish organist, composer, and musicologist born in Lurgan, Ireland (d. 1934)
Famous Deaths
Laura Secord
Oct 17 Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812, dies at 93
