Events in History
- Oct 6 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
- Oct 9 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
- Oct 16 Race riot at Cainhoy SC (5 whites & 1 black killed)
Historic Event
Oct 17 Henry Morton Stanley's reaches Lualaba River
Birthdays in History
- Oct 4 Hugh McCrae, Australian writer and poet (Satyrs and Sunlight: Sylvarum Libri), born in Melbourne (d. 1958)
- Oct 6 Ernest Lapointe, French Canadian politician (d. 1941)
- Oct 11 Gertrud von Le Fort, German writer (The Eternal Woman), born in Minden, Westphalia (d. 1971)
- Oct 22 Karl Adam, German theologist (Christ our Brother), born in Freudenberg, Bavaria (d. 1966)
- Oct 23 Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970)
- Oct 28 Albert E Michotte van den Berck, Belgian psychologist
- Oct 31 Eduard van Oort, Dutch ornithologist (Ornithology of Netherlands), born in Barneveld, Netherlands (d. 1933)
Deaths in History
- Oct 1 James Lick, American land baron in California, dies at 80
- Oct 7 Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian, dies at 81
- Oct 10 Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
- Oct 18 Francis Preston Blair, American journalist and newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85
- Oct 20 Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist and historian, dies at 68