What Happened in October 1906

Historical Events

Oct 2 Tommy Burns KOs Jim Burns in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

Oct 3 US regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba
Oct 3 William Vaughan Moody's "Great Divide" premieres in NYC
Oct 4 Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36 .763) of year
Oct 5 Henry Mathewson (NY Giants, Christy's brother) walks 14 men
Oct 6 The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time.
Oct 8 Karl Nessler demonstrates first 'permanent wave' for hair in London
Oct 10 2nd College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 12-0 in Annapolis
Oct 11 White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game
Oct 11 San Francisco Board of Education orders segregation in separate schools of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean children sparking diplomatic crisis
Oct 14 All Chicago World Series, 1st AL victory, White Sox win 4 games to 2 Cubs losers share of $439.50 is lowest for World Series

Oct 19 Frederick Winslow Taylor is awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Pennsylvania

Oct 22 Henry Ford becomes President of Ford Motor Company

Oct 25 Georges Clémenceau succeeds Ferdinand Sarien as Prime Minister of France

Oct 25 US inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion", a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio & broadcasting
Oct 28 Belgian-British "Union Minière du Haut Katanga" mining company created in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo

Oct 31 George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar & Cleopatra" premieres in NYC

Oct 6 Janet Gaynor, American actress (Sunrise, A Star Is Born), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1984)

Oct 7 James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68)
Oct 9 John Dalrymple, 13th earl of Stair, Lord-Lieutenant of Wigtownshire (1961-83)
Oct 9 Janis Ivanovs, Latvian composer, born in Babri, Preiļi, Latvia (d. 1983)
Oct 9 Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and 1st President of Senegal (1960-80), born in Joal-Fadiouth, Senegal (d. 2001)
Oct 10 Paul Creston, [Giuseppe Guttoveggio], NY, composer (Creative Harmony)

Oct 10 R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (Malguidi Days), born in Madras (d. 2001)

Oct 11 Earl "Dutch" Clark, Colo, NFL hall of fame QB (Spartans, Detroit)
Oct 11 Katherine Emery, American actress (Maze, Isle of the Dead), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 1980)
Oct 12 Eddie Myers, British WWII soldier and engineer, born in Kensington, London (d. 1997)
Oct 12 Joe Cronin, American baseball shortstop (Pirates, Red Sox, Senators, MVP 1930, AL Pres), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1984)
Oct 12 Willy Hess, Swiss musicologist, composer and famous Beethoven scholar, born in Winterthur, Switzerland (d. 1997)
Oct 14 Benita Hume, British actress (Tarzan Escapes, High Treason, Halls of Ivy), born in London, England (d. 1967)

Oct 14 Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and historian (Origins of Totalitarianism), born in Hanover, Germany (d. 1975)

Oct 14 Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
Oct 15 Hiram Fong, Honolulu U.S. (Sen-R-Hawaii)
Oct 16 Dino Buzzati, Italian writer (The Tartar Steppe), born in San Pellegrino, Belluno, (d. 1972)
Oct 16 George Martin Lott Jr, tennis champ (1931 US Open runner-up)
Oct 17 Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
Oct 18 James Brooks, US mural painter (Acquisition of Long Island)
Oct 21 Lillian Asplund, last American Titanic survivor (d. 2006)
Oct 22 Cornelis L "Kees" van Baaren, Dutch composer (Willem Pijper)
Oct 22 Sidney Kingsley, US playwright (One in White, Darkness at Noon)
Oct 23 Miriam Gideon, composer
Oct 24 Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, painter
Oct 24 Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (d. 1968)
Oct 27 Earle Cabell, American politician, 48th Mayor of Dallas (1961-64), born in Dallas County, Texas (d. 1975)
Oct 29 Fredric Brown, American sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1972)
Oct 30 Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
Oct 30 Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1966)
Oct 31 Jo Vis, resistance fighter (Yad Vashem-distinction)
Oct 31 Louise Talma, American composer (Summer Sounds), born in Arcachon, France (d. 1996)

Oct 5 Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter, dies at 58
Oct 7 Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
Oct 9 Joseph Glidden, American inventor (barbed wire) and businessman, dies at 93
Oct 16 Varina Howell Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States (1862-65), dies at 80
Oct 20 William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants), dies at 67
Oct 21 Helena Amelung [Georgette A], Dutch actress (Scapegoat), dies at 55

Oct 22 Paul Cézanne, French artist and Post-Impressionist painter (The Basket of Apples), dies of pneumonia at 67