Events in History
- Oct 2 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual" (BG)
- Oct 7 Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant
- Oct 8 War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.
- Oct 12 British troops occupy Kabul, Afghanistan
- Oct 19 Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign
Event of Interest
Oct 22 Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb
Thomas Edison
Birthdays in History
- Oct 2 Wallace Stevens, American poet (Ideas of Order), born in Reading, Pennsylvania (d. 1955)
- Oct 4 Edward Murray East, American botanist and geneticist who developed hybrid corn, born in Du Quoin, Illinois (d. 1938)
- Oct 9 Max von Laue, German physicist who discovered the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, born in Pfaffendorf, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1960)
- Oct 28 Channing H. Cox, 49th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1968)
- Oct 29 Franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932)
- Oct 29 Alva B. Adams, American politician (d. 1941)
Deaths in History
- Oct 8 Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian Admiral (b. 1834)
- Oct 14 F Kornberger, writer, dies at 58
- Oct 28 Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
- Oct 31 Big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies
- Oct 31 Jacob Abbott, American author (b. 1803)
- Oct 31 Joseph Hooker, American General (b. 1814)