Event of Interest
Oct 7 English nurse Edith Cavell sentenced to death along with 34 others by German court martial for running underground network to free Allied soldiers
Edith Cavell
- Oct 8 Battle of Loos on WWI Western Front ends, German forces contain British attack (85,000 casualties)
- Oct 8 Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
- Oct 9 Belgrade, Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders
- Oct 9 Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York
- Oct 9 Louis Kaufmans comedy "Unchastened Woman" premieres in New York City
Event of Interest
Oct 9 Woodrow Wilson becomes first US President to attend a World Series game
Woodrow Wilson
- Oct 11 Bulgarian anti-Serbian offensive begins
Model T
Oct 12 Ford Motor Company under Henry Ford manufactures its 1 millionth automobile at the River Rouge plant in Detroit
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Oct 12 Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citizens who identify themselves with dual nationalities
Theodore Roosevelt
- Oct 12 Despite international protest, Edith Cavell an English nurse in Belgium, is executed by the Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners
- Oct 13 Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series
- Oct 16 Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria
- Oct 18 3rd Italian offensive at Isonzo
- Oct 19 Russia and Italy declare war on Bulgaria
- Oct 19 US bankers arrange a $500 million loan to the British and French
- Oct 21 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris
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Oct 21 William Jennings Bryan's successor as US Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, sends a note to Britain protesting interference with US shipping
William Jennings Bryan
- Oct 23 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
Women's Suffrage March on Fifth Ave, New York
Oct 23 An estimated 25,000 supporters in a women's suffrage march on New York's Fifth Ave, led by Dr. Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters
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Oct 28 Richard Strauss' Alpensymfonie, premieres in Berlin
Richard Strauss
Election of Interest
Oct 29 Aristide Briand becomes Prime Minister of France for the 3rd time
Aristide Briand