Events in History
- Oct 8 Telegraph line between LA & San Francisco opens
- Oct 12 British & French troops capture Beijing
- Oct 13 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon) of Boston
Abraham Lincoln, the Presidential Icon
Oct 15 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Abraham Lincoln telling him to grow a beard
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- Oct 18 The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
Birthdays in History
- Oct 3 Annie Horniman, English theater owner (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), born in Surrey Mount, Forest Hill, London (d. 1937)
- Oct 4 Sidney Paget, British illustrator (Sherlock Holmes), born in London (d. 1908)
- Oct 6 Oscar L Helfrich, Dutch governor (Curacao)
- Oct 6 Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch foreign minister (1908-13)
- Oct 12 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American entrepreneur and inventor (gyrocompass), born in Cincinnatus, New York (d. 1930)
Juliette Gordon Low
Oct 31 Juliette Gordon Low, American activist and founder of the Girl Scouts of America, born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1927)
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Deaths in History
- Oct 2 Louis Hersent, painter, dies
- Oct 3 Rembrandt Peale, American portrait and historical painter (Margaret Irvine Miller ,1805; Court of Death, 1820), and museum keeper (Baltimore), dies at 82
- Oct 12 Harry Smith, English military commander and leader of British-Indian forces (Battle of Aliwal), dies at 73
- Oct 24 Élie, Duke Decazes, French Bourbon Restoration politician (Sainte-Martin-de-Laye, France), dies at 80
- Oct 31 Johannes Nathan, Dutch murderer, the last ordinary execution in the Netherlands, hanged for killing his mother-in-law
- Oct 31 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral, dies at 84