What Happened in October 1911

Historical Events

Event of Interest

Oct 6 Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game

MLB Pitcher Cy Young — MLB Pitcher
Cy Young

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Oct 10 Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day)

Father of Modern China Sun Yat-sen — Father of Modern China
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

8th Prime Minister of Canada Robert Borden — 8th Prime Minister of Canada
Robert Borden

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Oct 11 Ty Cobb (AL) & Frank Schulte (NL) are 1st MVPs, each gets an auto

Oct 14 Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A's, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379)
Oct 19 Royal Mint in London sends dies for Canadian $1 coin to Ottawa Branch

Event of Interest

Oct 20 Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210W 46th St, NYC

Actress Helen Hayes — Actress
Helen Hayes

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Oct 20 Norwegian Roald Amundsen sets out a race to the South Pole

Polar Explorer Roald Amundsen — Polar Explorer
Roald Amundsen

Oct 21 RS Hichens & M Hudsons "Garden of Allah" premieres in NYC
Oct 21 Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union

Event of Interest

Oct 24 Captain Robert Falcon Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole

Polar Explorer Robert Scott — Polar Explorer
Robert 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.

Aviator Orville Wright — Aviator
Orville Wright

Oct 25 London's last horse drawn omnibus made its way from London Bridge Station to Moorgate
Oct 26 Philadelphia A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series
Oct 28 Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
Oct 30 Clark Griffith is named manager of Washington Senators

Famous Birthdays

Oct 1 Edward P Boland, (Rep-D-MA, 1953- )
Oct 1 Irwin Kostal, orchestra leader (Garry Moore Show), born in Chicago, Illinois
Oct 1 Richard Torriani, Swiss ice hockey player and luger who took the Olympic oath in 1948 (d. 1988)
Oct 2 Stuart Rose, designer (British Post Office)
Oct 2 Jack Finney, American author (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 Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (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 (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)

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, pianist (Dinah Shore Show), born in Paterson, New Jersey
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)
Oct 15 James H[enry] Schmitz, German sci-fi author (Lion Game)
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/US composer (Creation) [NS=Nov 3]
Oct 24 Clarence M Kelley, FBI head
Oct 24 Sonny Terry, blind Piedmont blues musician, born in Greensboro, Georgia (d. 1986)
Oct 24 Paul Grégoire, French Canadian archbishop of Montreal (d. 1993)
Oct 24 Nathaniel Wyeth, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, USA, American chemist and inventor (created PET plastic beverage bottle)

Mahalia Jackson

Oct 26 Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer (Whole World in his Hands), born in New Orleans, Louisiana

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-Theodore Malherbe, 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 29 Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World), dies at 64

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