Historical Events
- Oct 2 British occuping army leaves Constantinople
- Oct 4 Young Stribling ostensibly beats Mike McTigue on points in Columbus, Georgia for world light-heavyweight boxing title; referee Harry Ertle later calls fight a draw, claims coerced by promoters to award fight to Stribling; McTigue retains title
Event of Interest
Oct 5 Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
Edwin Hubble
- Oct 6 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
- Oct 6 US Lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record)
- Oct 6 USSR adopts experimental calendar
- Oct 7 Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
- Oct 10 Saxony gets Social Democratic & Communist coalition government
- Oct 10 NY Giants & NY Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium
- Oct 11 German Mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $
Event of Interest
Oct 12 NY Giant's Casey Stengel HR beats Yanks 1-0 in World Series
Casey Stengel
- Oct 13 Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital
- Oct 15 NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2
- Oct 16 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded
- Oct 16 John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
- Oct 17 Catholic University of Nijmegen Neth opens
- Oct 19 Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks
- Oct 19 Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Völkischer Beobachter
- Oct 21 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich
- Oct 23 Legendary Yankees slugger Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a rival Giants uniform as NY beats Baltimore Orioles, 9-0 in a benefit game for former Giants owner John Day
- Oct 24 General Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship
Historic Publication
Oct 25 Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal
Thomas J. Walsh
- Oct 26 Dutch second Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)
- Oct 26 Dutch Government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns
- Oct 29 Gibbs/Grey/Wood's revue "Runnin' Wild" (introducing Charleston) opens on Broadway, New York City
- Oct 29 Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxon
- Oct 29 Textile strike against lower wages begins in Enschede, Netherlands
- Oct 29 Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire)
- Oct 29 Mustafa Kemal officially confirms Turkey as a republic (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), now commemorated annually as the Republic Day of Turkey
- Oct 31 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees F begin at Marble Bar, Australia
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 2 Jack Dellal, English immovables-goedbezitter/multi-millionaire, (d. 2012)
- Oct 3 Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician, born in Vieille Case, Dominica (d. 2004)
- Oct 3 Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Polish-American conductor (Minnesota Orchestra, 1960-79) and composer (Passacaglia Immaginaria), born in Lwów, Second Polish Republic (now Lviv, Ukraine) (d. 2017)
Charlton Heston
Oct 4 Charlton Heston, American actor (10 Commandments, Ben-Hur, Planet of Apes), (d. 2008), born in Illinois (d. 2008)
Charlton Heston
- Oct 5 Glynis Johns, British actress and singer (Mary Poppins; A Little Night Music - "Send In The Clowns"; The Sundowners), born in Pretoria, South Africa
- Oct 5 Philip Berrigan, American peace activist and Roman Catholic priest, born in Two Harbors, Minnesota (d. 2002)
- Oct 5 Stig Dagerman, Swedish writer (Burned Child), born in Älvkarleby, Uppsala County, Sweden (d. 1954)
- Oct 5 Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (Minister of Finance), born in Reykjavík, Iceland (d. 1994)
- Oct 5 Bill Wirtz, American longtime Chicago Blackhawks owner, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2007)
- Oct 6 Yaşar Kemal, Turkish writer (Memed, My Hawk), born in Hemite, Osmaniye, Ottoman Empire (d. 2015)
- Oct 7 Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps
- Oct 7 Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
- Oct 9 Donald Sinden, English actor (Doctor at Large, Mogambo, Simba), born in St Budeaux, Plymouth, (d. 2014)
- Oct 9 Ronald Tremain, New Zealand composer, born in Feilding, New Zealand (d. 1998)
- Oct 10 Louis Gottlieb, American musician (The Limeliters), born inn La Crescenta, California (d. 1996)
- Oct 10 Nicholas Parsons, British presenter and actor described as "the ultimate quiz show host", born in Grantham, England (d. 2020)
- Oct 12 Jean Nidetch, businesswoman and founder of Weight Watchers, born in Brooklyn, New York
- Oct 12 Goody Petronelli, American boxing trainer and manager, born in Brockton, Massachusetts (d. 2012)
- Oct 13 Faas Wilkes, Dutch soccer star (Xerxes, Fortuna, Inter Milan), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 2006)
- Oct 13 Cyril Shaps, British actor, producer and voice artist (The Pianist), born in Highbury, London (d. 2003)
- Oct 13 Dorothy Bolden, American civil and women's rights activist, and founder of the National Domestic Worker's Union of America, born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2005)
- Oct 15 Italo Calvino, Italian author (Winter's Night a Traveler), born in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba (d. 1985)
- Oct 16 Linda Darnell, American actress (Unfaithfully Yours, A Letter to Three Wives), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 1965)
- Oct 16 Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter, born in Hamburg (d. 1980)
- Oct 17 Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist (The Wrecking Crew), born in Muskogee, Oklahoma (d. 2004)
- Oct 18 Suzanne Perlman, Hungarian/Dutch Antilian painter
- Oct 20 Herschel Bernardi, American actor (Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, Front), born in NYC, New York (d. 1986)
- Oct 20 Joe Minogue, journalist
- Oct 20 Robert Craft, American conductor, writer and friend of Stravinsky, born in Kingston, New York (d. 2015)
- Oct 22 Pete Pihos, NFL end (Phil Eagles)
- Oct 22 Bert Trautmann, German footballer, (d. 2013)
- Oct 23 Frank Sutton, American actor (Marty, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.), born in Clarksville, Tennessee (d. 1974)
- Oct 23 Ned Rorem, composer and author (Sky Music), born in Richmond, Indiana
- Oct 23 Harold P. Warren, American film director (Manos: The Hands of Fate), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1985)
- Oct 24 Denise Levertov, American poet and essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin), born in Ilford, Essex, England (d. 1997)
- Oct 25 Bobby Thomson, Scottish-American baseball player, born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2010)
- Oct 25 Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (Mon oncle Antoine), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1990)
- Oct 27 Roy Lichtenstein, Pop art painter (painted comic book panels), born in NYC, New York (d. 1997)
- Oct 27 Ned Wertimer, American actor (The Jeffersons), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 2013)
- Oct 29 Dietrich Manicke, German composer, born in Wurzen, Saxony, Germany
Carl Djerassi
Oct 29 Carl Djerassi, Austrian-born American chemist and father of the contraceptive pill, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2015)
Carl Djerassi
- Oct 31 Hicks B. Waldron, Chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc., born in Amsterdam, New York (d. 2017)
Famous Weddings
- Oct 14 "All Quiet on the Western Front" author Erich Maria Remarque (25) weds Ilse Jutta Zambona
Wedding of Interest
Oct 16 General Francisco Franco (30) marries María del Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdés (23) at Church of San Juan el Real in Oviedo
Francisco Franco
Famous Deaths
- Oct 12 A P "Bunny" Lucas, cricketer (five Tests for England 1879-82), dies
- Oct 14 George Elbridge Whiting, American composer, dies at 83
- Oct 14 Marcellus Emants, writer/poet (Refrained from Confession), dies
- Oct 26 Charles Proteus Steinmetz, German-American electrical engineer (development of alternating current), dies at 58
