Events in History
Historic Invention
Oct 1 German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske
- Oct 1 Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
Historic Publication
Oct 16 Charlotte Brontë's book "Jane Eyre" published
- Oct 20 12 year old English boy William Nelman poisons his grandpa with arsenic, would become famous court case
Birthdays in History
- Oct 1 Annie Besant, English social reformer and supporter of Indian independence, born in London (d. 1933)
Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934)
Oct 2 German WW1 general and President of Germany (1925-34), born in Posen, Duchy of Posen, Prussia
- Oct 6 Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor, born in Marburg, Germany (d. 1921)
- Oct 8 Rose Scott, Australian social reformer and suffragette, born in Glendon, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1925)
- Oct 9 Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburg's coal basin), born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1920)
- Oct 9 Stephanus Jacobus du Toit, South African theologist and journalist (Afrikaner Bond), born in Paarl, South Africa (d. 1911)
- Oct 22 Koos de la Rey, Boer leader and general in the South African War (1899–1902), born in Winburg, Orange River Sovereignty, British Empire (d. 1914)
- Oct 31 Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist and electrical engineer, born in Livorno Ferraris, Italy (d. 1897)
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