October 1908 in History

Events in History

Oct 1 1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague)

Ford Puts Millions in the Driving Seat

Oct 1 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825)

The mass-produced Model T that brought motoring to the masses

Event of Interest

Oct 3 Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna

Oct 5 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar
Oct 6 Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina
Oct 7 Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece
Oct 7 Serbia & Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact
Oct 18 Belgium annexes Congo Free State
Oct 20 King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium
Oct 24 Billy Murray hits the charts with "Take Me Outto the Ball Game"

Event of Interest

Oct 28 The English Newspaper the Daily Telegraph prints an interview with Germany's Emperor Wilhelm II, who characterises himself as personally friendly to Britain but suggests the German people are hostile, causing uproar in both countries

Birthdays in History

Oct 3 David Herbert, British writer and raconteur (d. 1995)
Oct 5 Joshua Logan, Broadway producer (South Pacific), born in Texarcana, Texas (d. 1988)
Oct 6 Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
Oct 9 Harry Hooton, Australian poet, born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England (d. 1961)
Oct 9 Jim Folsom, American politician (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), born in Coffee County, Alabama (d. 1987)
Oct 10 Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (La plaça del diamant), born in Barcelona (d. 1983)
Oct 12 Ann Lane Petry, American journalist and author (Street), born in Old Saybrook, Connecticut (d. 1997)
Oct 12 Paul Engle, American poet and writer (Worm Earth, American Song), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (d. 1991)
Oct 13 John Grant, British rear-admiral (Royal Navy) (d. 1996)
Oct 13 Werner Reinowski, German writer, born in Bernburg, Germany (d. 1987)

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)

Oct 15 Canadian-American economist and writer (Affluent Society - Sidney Hillman Award, 1958), born in Iona Station, Ontario

Enver Hoxha (1908-1985)

Oct 16 Albanian post-war communist leader and dictator of Albania (1944-85), born in Gjirokastër, Albania

Oct 22 Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologist/antifascist
Oct 23 Ilya Mikhaylovich Frank, Russian Physicist and Nobel Laureate (Cherenkov radiation), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1990
Oct 24 John Alwyne Kitching, British zoologist (d. 1996)
Oct 24 John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (contributions to plate tectonics), born in Ottawa, Ontario (d. 1993)
Oct 25 Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (L'histoire de Jonas), born in Belgium (d. 2004)
Oct 27 Lee Krasner, American abstract expressionist painter, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1984)