What Happened in October 1892

Historical Events

Historic Publication

Oct 14 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" collection of 12 stories originally published serially in "The Strand Magazine"

Oct 18 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)
Oct 24 "World Championship" Baseball Series, South End Grounds, Boston: Boston Beaneaters beat Cleveland Spiders, 8-3 for a 5-0-1 championship victory; last of the pre-modern-era World Series

Historic Publication

Oct 26 "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" first published by African American journalist Ida B. Wells in Memphis, Tennessee

Famous Birthdays

Oct 4 Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian Fascist chancellor killed by Nazis, born in Texingtal, Austria (d. 1934)
Oct 4 Luis Trenker, South Tyrolean film producer, director and actor (Berge in Flammen), born in Urtijëi, Tyrol (d. 1990)
Oct 4 Hermann Glauert, British aerodynamicist, born in Sheffield, Yorkshire (d. 1934)
Oct 4 Gaston Chevrolet, French auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1920), born in Beaune, Côte-d'Or, France (d. 1920)
Oct 5 Remington Kellogg, American naturalist and director (U.S. National Museum), born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1969)
Oct 7 Dwain Esper, American film director (The Seventh Commandment), born in Washington State (d. 1982)
Oct 9 Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel 1961), born in Dolac, Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina (d. 1975)
Oct 9 Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (The Train of Life), born in Moscow (d. 1941)
Oct 10 Earle Dickson, American inventor (Band-Aid), born in Grandview, Tennessee (d. 1961)
Oct 12 Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano, born in Verona, Italy (d. 1975)
Oct 14 Sumner Welles, American diplomat (Good neighbor policy), born in New York (d. 1961)

Oct 17 Herbert Howells, British organist, composer (chiefly of Anglican Church scared music), and teacher, born in Lydney, Gloucestershire England (d. 1983)
Oct 17 Otakar Jeremiáš, Czech composer and conductor, born in Písek, Bohemia (d. 1962)
Oct 17 Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (d. 1943)
Oct 19 Ilmari Hannikainen, Finnish pianist and composer, born in Jyväskylä (d. 1955)
Oct 23 Milton "Gummo" Marx, American actor and comedian (Marx Brothers), born in NYC, New York (d. 1977)
Oct 24 Kurt Huber, German philosopher and resistance fighter, born in Chur, Switzerland (d. 1943)
Oct 27 Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), born in Quebrangulo, Brazil (d. 1953)
Oct 27 Victor E. van Vriesland, Dutch poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1974)
Oct 28 Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis, Dutch historian of science (biography of Archimedes), born in Tilburg, Netherlands (d. 1965)
Oct 28 Ludwig Strauss, German-Israeli writer (Night Watch), born in Aachen, Germany (d. 1953)
Oct 28 Ollie "Dink" Johnson, American Dixieland jazz clarinetist, pianist, and drummer, born in Biloxi, Mississippi (d. 1954)
Oct 31 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, American Zen teacher (1st Zen Institute of America), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1967)
Oct 31 Olof Thiel, Swedish film score composer, under the pseudonym of Jacques Armand, born in Stockholm (d. 1978)

Famous Deaths

Oct 4 Guillaume Van Kerckhoven, Belgian captain, dies at 39
Oct 5 Bill Powers, US member of Daltonbende, dies
Oct 5 Bob Dalton, US leader of Daltonbende, dies
Oct 5 Dick Broadwell, US member of Daltonbende, dies
Oct 5 Grat Dalton, US member of Daltonbende, dies

Alfred Tennyson

Oct 6 Alfred Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate (The Charge of the Light Brigade), dies at 83

Oct 23 Emin Pasha, German explorer and governor (Equatoria), murdered at 52
Oct 25 Caroline Harrison, 1st lady of the U.S. (1889-1892), wife of Benjamin Harrison, dies at 60
Oct 29 William Harnett, Irish-American painter (Old Cupboard Door), dies at 44