Historical Events
Event of Interest
Oct 10 Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day)
Sun Yat-sen
- Oct 10 The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
Event of Interest
Oct 10 Robert Borden becomes the 8th Prime Minister of Canada
Robert Borden
Event of Interest
Oct 20 Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210W 46th St, NYC
Helen Hayes
Event of Interest
Oct 20 Norwegian Roald Amundsen sets out a race to the South Pole
Roald Amundsen
Italo-Turkish War
Oct 23 The first aerial reconnaissance mission is flown by an Italian pilot over Turkish lines during the Italo-Turkish War
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Historic Expedition
Oct 24 Captain Robert Falcon Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole
Robert Falcon Scott
Event of Interest
Oct 24 Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.
Orville Wright
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 1 Edward P Boland, (Rep-D-MA, 1953- )
- Oct 1 Irwin Kostal, orchestra leader and arranger (West Side Story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1994)
- Oct 1 Riccardo Torriani, Swiss ice hockey player, luger (Olympic bronze 1928, 48; took the Olympic oath 1948), born in St. Moritz, Switzerland (d. 1988)
- Oct 1 Herman Hickman, American College Football Hall of Fame guard, coach and broadcaster (Army, Yale), born in Johnson City, Tennessee (d. 1958)
- Oct 2 Stuart Rose, British designer (British Post Office), born in London (d. 1993)
- Oct 2 Jack Finney, American sci-fi and thriller author (The Body Snatchers, Time and Again), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1995)
- Oct 3 Michael Hordern, American actor (Watership Down, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England (d. 1995)
- Oct 5 Brian O'Brien, Irish novelist (At Swim-Two-Birds), born in Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland (d. 1966)
- Oct 7 Jo Jones, American jazz drummer, born in Chicago, Illinois (1985)
- Oct 7 Vaughn Monroe, singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), born in Akron, Ohio
- Oct 7 Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995)
- Oct 9 Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (Pulitzer Prize-Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2006)
Clare Hollingworth
Oct 10 Clare Hollingworth, British war correspondent who was the first to report on the outbreak of WWII, born in Knighton, England (d. 2017)
Clare Hollingworth
- Oct 12 Louis de Guiringaud, French foreign minister (1976-78), born in Limoges, France (d. 1982)
- Oct 12 Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer (Test average 47 72, 1st-class avg 71), born in Bombay, India (d. 1987)
- Oct 12 Maribel Vinson, American figure skater (9 time US National Champion), born in Winchester, Massachusetts (d. 1961)
- Oct 13 Ticker Freeman, American pianist (Dinah Shore Show), born in Paterson, New Jersey (d. 1986)
- Oct 13 Ashok Kumar [Dadamoni, Kumudlal Kunjilal Ganguly], Indian actor (Mahal, Afsana), born in Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 2001)
- Oct 14 Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese revolutionary general, politician and negotiator in Paris (1975), born in Nam Định Province, French Indochina (d. 1990)
- Oct 15 James H. Schmitz, American sci-fi author (Lion Game), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1981)
- Oct 19 George Cates, American orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show), born in NYC, New York
- Oct 19 Hilde Spiel, Austrian writer, born in Vienna (d. 1990)
- Oct 20 Will Rogers Jr, American politician (D-Representative 1943-44) writer, political commentator, and actor (Down to Earth), born in NYC, New York (d. 1993)
- Oct 21 Peter Graves, British actor (Paradise Lagoon, Admirable Crichton), born in London, England (d. 1994)
- Oct 21 Vladimir Ussachevsky, Manchurian/American composer (Creation) [NS=Nov 3]
- Oct 24 Clarence M. Kelley, American 2nd Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1973-77), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1997)
- Oct 24 Sonny Terry, blind Piedmont blues musician, born in Greensboro, Georgia (d. 1986)
- Oct 24 Paul Grégoire, French Canadian Archbishop of Montreal, born in Viauville, Montreal, Quebec (d. 1993)
- Oct 24 Nathaniel Wyeth, American chemist and inventor (created PET plastic beverage bottle), born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (d. 1990)
Mahalia Jackson
Oct 26 Mahalia Jackson, American gospel singer (Whole World in his Hands), born in New Orleans, Louisianal; (d. 1972)
Mahalia Jackson
- Oct 26 Sid Gillman, NFL hall of fame coach and player (LA, San Diego, Houston), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 2003)
- Oct 26 Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (Poems to Eimhir and Other Poems), born in Osgaig, Raasay, Scotland (d. 1996)
- Oct 27 Leif Erickson, American actor (Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront), born in Alameda, California (d. 1986)
- Oct 29 Phillip Jack Oppenheimer, diamond trader
- Oct 30 Ruth Hussey, American actress (Another Thin Man), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 2005)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 1 Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans), dies at 77
- Oct 5 Charles Malherbe, French violinist and composer, dies at 58
- Oct 7 John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
- Oct 14 John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833)
- Oct 18 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test (Binet–Simon test), dies at 54
- Oct 29 Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World), dies at 64