Events in History Oct 2 Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land Oct 6 4th National Women's Rights Convention opens in Cleveland Ohio Oct 19 First flour mill in Hawaii begins operations Oct 23 Maastricht-Aken railway in Netherlands opens Birthdays in History Oct 17 Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920) Oct 29 Josephine Beall Bruce, African-American activist (NACW) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1923) Deaths in History Oct 2 François Arago, French astronomer, physicist (chromosome) and politician, dies at 67 1852 On This Day in History 1854