Events in History
- Oct 4 First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
The Orient Express
Oct 4 The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul
- Oct 11 US and Canadian railroads agree to use of five time-zone system for North America, based on the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Oct 15 US Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
- Oct 20 Max Bruch's "Kol Nidre" 1st performed
- Oct 20 Treaty of Ancon; Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile
- Oct 22 1st NY Horse Show held (Madison Sq Garden)
- Oct 30 Austria-Hungary, Germany and Romania sign military treaty
Birthdays in History
- Oct 8 Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician (Nobel-1931), born in Freiburg, Baden, Germany (d. 1970)
- Oct 22 Adolph Joffe, Russian Communist revolutionary and writer (Brest-Litovsk), born in Simferopol, Russian Empire (d. 1927)
- Oct 26 Napoleon Hill, American writer and philosopher (Think and Grow Rich), born in Pound, Virginia (d. 1970)
- Oct 31 Marie Laurencin, French painter, born in Paris (d. 1956)
Deaths in History
- Oct 2 Joshua Ratoon Sands, American Rear Admiral (Union Navy), dies at 88
- Oct 5 Joachim Barrande, French paleontologist and geologist (fossils in Bohemia, opposed Darwin's Theory of Evolution), dies at 84
- Oct 22 Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (The Headless Horseman), dies at 65
- Oct 31 Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj
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