Historical Events
- Oct 1 WJZ, Newark NJ begins broadcasting
Baseball Record
- Oct 4 League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
- Oct 4 Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected President of Free State of Fiume
- Oct 5 1st World Series radio broadcast, Yanks beat Giants 3-0
- Oct 5 Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect
- Oct 6 Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished 1962)
- Oct 6 Fewest hits in World Series Game, 5, Yanks (3) beat Giants (2), 3-0
- Oct 6 International PEN is founded in London.
- Oct 9 Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
- Oct 10 NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10
- Oct 13 NY Giants beat NY Yankees, 5 games to 3 in 18th World Series
- Oct 16 Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, & Bill Piercy defy Landis ban on World Series
- Oct 16 Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin-only mid-game coaching change in NFL history
- Oct 17 Belgium's public library law goes into force
- Oct 18 Biding its time, Soviet Russia agrees to independence for the Crimea
- Oct 19 Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup
- Oct 20 Germany and Allies comes to an agreements over reparation payments in a meeting at Wiensbaden
- Oct 20 The French and Mustafa Kemal nationalists sign a treaty at Ankara fixing the Turko-Syrian border
- Oct 21 Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam
- Oct 21 Former Hungarian King Karl stages a second attempted coup and is arrested
- Oct 23 Green Bay Packers play 1st NFL game, 7-6 win over Minneapolis
- Oct 23 Leos Janacek's opera "Kat'a Kabanova" premieres in Brno
- Oct 26 Solomon Porter Hood named US minister to Liberia
- Oct 28 Amsterdam's Tuschinski movie theater opens
- Oct 28 First American gubernatorial recall election is held in South Dakota. Governor Lynn Frazier loses to Ragnvald A. Nestos.
- Oct 29 The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
Film Premier
Oct 30 "The Sheik", a silent film starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres in Los Angeles
Rudolph Valentino
- Oct 31 Federation Sportive Feminine International forms (1st woman track & field association)
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 1 James Whitmore, American actor (The Shawshank Redemption, Give 'em Hell Harry), born in White Plains, New York (d. 2009)
- Oct 2 A Scott Crossfield, US Test pilot (XS-1)
- Oct 2 Robert Runcie, [Kennedy], Archbishop of Canterbury, born in Liverpool, England
- Oct 3 Ray Lindwall, cricketer (Australian fast bowler & St George full-back)
- Oct 5 Bill Willis, AAFC, NFL guard (Cleveland Browns)
- Oct 6 Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
- Oct 7 John Arthur Giles Gere, English art historian (Pre-Raphaelite painter)
- Oct 8 Abraham Sarmiento, Sr., Filipino Supreme Court jurist (1987-91), born in Santa Cruz, Ilocos Sur, Philippine (d. 2010)
- Oct 9 Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)
- Oct 10 "Boy" [FHP] Trip, Dutch minister
- Oct 12 Jaroslav Drobný, Czech ice hockey player (Olympic gold 1948) and tennis player (Wimbledon title 1954), born in Prague, Czech Republic (d. 2001)
- Oct 13 Harper MacKay, orchestra leader (NBC Follies), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Oct 13 Yves Montand [Ivo Livi], Italian-French actor and singer (Z, Napoleon, Grand Prix), born in Monsummano Terme, Italy (d. 1991)
- Oct 15 Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian table tennis player (World Champ 1950-55)
- Oct 15 Gul Mahomed, cricketer (Indian & Pakistani batsman)
- Oct 16 Michael Conrad, American actor (Delvecchio, Hill St Blues), born in NYC, New York (d. 1983)
- Oct 16 Matt Batts, MLB catcher (Red Sox), born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 2013)
- Oct 17 George Mackey Brown, poet
- Oct 17 Maria Gorokhovskaya, USSR, gymnast (Olympic gold 1952)
- Oct 17 Pricilla Lanford Buckly, editor/columnist (National Review)
- Oct 17 Tom Poston, American actor (Newhart, Mork & Mindy, Steve Allen Show, Newhart), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 2007)
- Oct 18 Jesse Helms, (Sen-D/R-North Carolina, 1973- )
- Oct 19 George Nader, American actor (Robot Monster, Away All Boats), born in Pasadena, California (d. 2002)
- Oct 19 Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish soccer player (Olympic gold 1948)
- Oct 20 Hans Warren, Dutch writer/poet/critic (Secret Diary)
- Oct 20 Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist/statesman (Revolution Script)
- Oct 21 Jarmil Burghauser, composer
- Oct 21 Malcolm Arnold, Northampton England, composer (Bridge over River Kwai)
- Oct 22 Georges Brassens, French poet/cabaret singer
- Oct 22 Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
- Oct 23 Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus)
- Oct 25 Brian Malzard Foss, British psychologist, born in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire (d. 1997)
- Oct 25 Michael I, King of Romania (1927-30, 40-47), born in Peleș Castle, Sinaia, Romania
- Oct 25 Michael I, King of Romania (1927-1930 and 1940-1947), born in Sinaia, Romania (d. 2017)
- Oct 26 George Houston, land economist
- Oct 26 George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (d. 1968)
- Oct 27 Anestis Logothetis, Austrian composer, born in Burgas, Bulgaria (d. 1994)
- Oct 27 Warren Allen Smith, American gay rights activist and writer, born in Minburn, Iowa (d. 2017)
- Oct 28 Peggy Kirk Bell, top American amateur golfer, born in Findlay, Ohio (d. 2016)
- Oct 29 Edward "Ed" Kemmer, American actor (Space Patrol, Lux Video Theatre), born in Reading, Pennsylvania (d. 2004)
- Oct 29 Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers (Pulitzer-1945, 59), born in Mountain Park, New Mexico (d. 2003)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 17 Katherine Griffith [Kiernan], American actress (Pollyanna, Fast Company), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 45
- Oct 18 King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
- Oct 19 Antonio Granjo, premier (Portugal), murdered
- Oct 23 John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81
- Oct 25 Bat Masterson, American gunfighter in the Wild West, dies of a heart attack at 67