Historical Events
- Oct 2 British occuping army leaves Constantinople
- Oct 2 Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a pinch single on final day, hitting .403
- Oct 3 Germany's Stresemann resigns
- Oct 4 Young Stribling holds light-heavyweight boxing championship for shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns decision
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 2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms
- 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
Baseball Record
- Oct 11 German Mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $
- Oct 12 NY Giant's Casey Stengel HR beats Yanks 1-0 in World Series
- 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 Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a Giants uniform
- Oct 23 Giants defeat Balt Orioles 9-0 to benefit former Giants owner John Day
- Oct 24 General Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship
- Oct 25 Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal
- 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), commemorated today annually as the Republic Day of Turkey
- Oct 31 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees F begin at Marble Bar, Australia
Famous Birthdays
Charlton Heston
Oct 4 Charlton Heston, actor (10 Commandments, Ben-Hur, Planet of Apes), (d. 2008), born in Illinois (d. 2008)
Charlton Heston
- Oct 5 Glynis Johns, British actress (Mary Poppins, A Little Night Music, The Sundowners), born in Pretoria, South Africa
- Oct 5 Philip Berrigan, militant priest (Chicago 7)
- Oct 5 Stig H Dagerman, Swedish writer (Burned Child)
- Oct 5 Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer (d. 1994)
- Oct 5 Bill Wirtz, longtime Chicago Blackhawks owner (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, composer
- Oct 10 Louis Gottlieb, musician
- Oct 10 Nicholas Parsons, British presenter and actor described as "the ultimate quiz show host", born in Grantham, England
- 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 Servaas "Faas" Wilkes, Dutch soccer star (Xerxes/Fortuna/Inter Milan)
- Oct 13 Cyril Shaps, British actor, producer and voice artist (The Pianist), born in Highbury, London (d. 2003)
- Oct 15 Italo Calvino, Cuban 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 musician (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 24 Denise Levertov, American poet/essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin)
- 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, composer
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, 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
