World Record
Oct 1 Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi runs 15k world record 46:49.6 and 10 miles 50:15.0 in Berlin, Germany
PGA Championship
Oct 6 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Five Farms CC: Leo Diegel dominates Al Espinosa, 6 & 5 in the final to win the first of his 2 consecutive titles
Historic Event
Oct 6 Josip Broz Tito sentenced to 5 years in jail
- Oct 7 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0)
- Oct 7 Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia
Music Premiere
Oct 8 Cole Porter and E. Ray Goetz' musical "Paris" opens at the Music Box Theater, NYC; runs for 195 performances
Historic Event
Oct 10 Chiang Kai-shek becomes Director of the State Council of China
- Oct 12 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)
The Age of Zeppelins
Oct 15 German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, New Jersey
Contract of Interest
Oct 15 Walter Johnson signs a 3-year contract to manage the Senators
- Oct 16 Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points
Historic Event
Oct 22 Herbert Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"
- Oct 22 Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
- Oct 28 Indonesian child laws enforced in Bahasa Indonesia
- Oct 28 Indian freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai injured leading silent protest against visiting British commission in Lahore (dies of injuries 17th November)
- Nov 1 1st celebration of Authors' Day
Historic Event
Nov 1 Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km
Music Premiere
Nov 2 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Symphony premieres in US with Leopold Stokowski leading the Philadelphia Orchestra at The Academy of Music, Philadelpha
Historic Event
Nov 4 American gangster Arnold Rothstein is shot at a business meeting for reputedly refusing to pay gambling debts (dies 6th November)
- Nov 6 Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds
- Nov 6 Republican candidate Herbert Hoover is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Al Smith
- Nov 6 Colonel Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor
- Nov 6 Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king
- Nov 11 France's 5th government of Raymond Poincaré forms
- Nov 11 KXO-AM in El Centro CA begins radio transmissions
- Nov 11 WGL-AM in Ft Wayne IN begins radio transmissions
- Nov 11 WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids IA begins radio transmissions
- Nov 11 WOL-AM in Washington, D.C. begins radio transmissions
- Nov 12 British steamer "Vestris" capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110
- Nov 17 Boston Garden officially opens
- Nov 17 Notre Dame finally loses a football game at home after 23 years
Film & TV History
Nov 18 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" released, first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon
Sports History
Nov 20 Boston Gardens opens, Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0
- Nov 20 WGH-AM in Newport News VA begins radio transmissions
Music History
Nov 22 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel first performed publicly (Paris)
Historic Invention
Nov 30 Vladimir K. Zworykin receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
- Dec 1 Railroad museum opens in Utrecht, Netherlands
- Dec 1 National League President John Heydler first to propose a baseball rule change calling for a 10th man, or 'designated hitter', to bat in place of the pitcher; ironically, the NL vote in favour of proposal, but the American League turn it down
- Dec 1 CFL Grey Cup, AAA Grounds, Hamilton: Hamilton Tigers win 3rd Cup with 30-0 shutout of Regina Roughriders
- Dec 2 Cardinals' 1B Jim Bottomley is voted NL MVP
- Dec 4 Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn's musical "Whoopee!", starring Eddie Cantor, premieres on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, NYC; runs for 407 performances
- Dec 5 England defeats Australia by record 675 runs at Brisbane
- Dec 5 Wilhelm Miklas elected president of Austria
- Dec 11 Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on President-elect Herbert Hoover
- Dec 12 Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne's play "Wings over Europe" premieres in New York City
- Dec 13 Clip-on tie designed
- Dec 13 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres at Carnegie Hall, NYC, performed by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Walter Damrosch
- Dec 16 National Football League Championship: Providence Steam Roller (8-1-2) win first past the post title
- Dec 17 John McGraw backs NL President John Heydler's designated hitter idea
- Dec 19 1st autogyro flight in US
- Dec 20 1st international dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Quebec
- Dec 20 Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St NYC
- Dec 23 NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network
- Dec 24 George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) opens at 152 W 54th St NYC
- Dec 25 NSW (v Vic) go from 8-74 to 9-113 to be 9-367 at stumps
Sports History
Dec 26 Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming