Events in History
- Oct 1 Dutch railway Alkmaar-Receiver opens
- Oct 1 Henry Huntington buys LA Railway
- Oct 1 Jews are expelled from Kyiv, Ukraine
- Oct 1 The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
- Oct 1 Tsar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities
- Oct 8 First Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2
- Oct 12 Establishment of the first town council in Mateur.
- Oct 18 American flag raised in Puerto Rico
- Oct 20 NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms
Birthdays in History
- Oct 10 Lilly Daché, French-American milliner and fashion designer, born in Bègles, France (d. 1989)
- Oct 16 Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR
- Oct 16 William O. Douglas, American 81st Supreme Court justice (1939-75), born in Maine (d. 1980)
- Oct 17 Mildred Knopf, cookbook writer
- Oct 17 Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer/poet (5th Seal)
- Oct 21 Amedeo duke of Aosta, viceroy of Ethiopia/gov-gen of Italian East-Africa
- Oct 22 Damaso Alonso, Spanish poet (Hijos de la ira)
- Oct 25 Sidney James van den Bergh, Dutch businessman and politician, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1977)
- Oct 31 Alfred Sauvy, French statistician (Affluence & Population), born in Villeneuve-de-la-Raho, France (d. 1990)
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