Events in History
- Oct 4 In a final confrontation, around 4,000 Ashantis are defeated by the British in the Gold Coast (Ghana)
- Oct 6 Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
- Oct 7 The term "orienteering" is first used for an event
- Oct 9 8.3 magnitude earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska
- Oct 10 Foreign ministers in Peking begin their first serious negotiations over what conditions their nations will impose on the Chinese after putting down the Boxer uprising
- Oct 10 In Manchuria, Russia captures the major city of Mukden, part of their own plan to take over the whole province
Event of Interest
Oct 12 The first modern submarine is commissioned by the U.S. Navy as the USS Holland, named for its designer John Philip Holland
- Oct 16 Great Britain and Germany sign the Anglo-German Treaty, agreeing to maintain territorial integrity of China and support 'open door' policy called for by US Secretary of State
Event of Interest
Oct 17 Bernhard von Bülow becomes German Chancellor
Event of Interest
Oct 19 South African President of Transvaal Paul Kruger departs for Europe
Birthdays in History
- Oct 3 Jay Irving, American cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), born in NYC, New York (d. 1970)
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
Oct 3 American novelist (Look Homeward Angel), born in Asheville, North Carolina
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945)
Oct 7 German Nazi and head of the Gestapo, born in Munich, Germany
- Oct 8 Geoffrey Jellicoe, English landscape architect (Shute House), born in London (d. 1996)
- Oct 8 Serge Chermayeff, Russian-British architect and designer, born in Grozny, Russia (d. 1996)
- Oct 16 Edward Ardizzone, artist and illustrator (d. 1979)
- Oct 16 Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
- Oct 20 Wayne Morse, American politician (Senator-(R&D)-Oregon 1945-69), born in Madison, Wisconsin (d. 1974)
- Oct 22 Edward Stettinius Jr. 48th US Secretary of State (1944-45) and diplomat, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1949)
- Oct 24 Elizabeth Hill, Russian-English teacher of Salvonic languages, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1996)
- Oct 26 Ibrahim Abboud, 1st President and 4th Prime Minister of Sudan (1958-64), born in Suakin, Sudan (d. 1983)
- Oct 26 Karin Boye, writer (Kallocain), born in Gothenburg, Sweden (d. 1941)
Ragnar Granit (1900-1991)
Oct 30 Finnish neuroscientist (Nobel 1967 - discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye), born in Helsinge, Finland
Weddings in History
- Oct 2 Belgium crown prince Albert von Saksen-Coburg weds Elisabeth of Bayern
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