October 1919 in History

Events in History

Oct 2 US President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed

Oct 3 Serbian, Croatian and Slavic Parliament passes an accord for an 8 hr work day
Oct 5 Norwegian population agrees to prohibition
Oct 6 Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria
Oct 7 First London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport & KLM)
Oct 7 Fritz Kreisler & F Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms" premieres in NYC
Oct 7 KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
Oct 15 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vermont to Massachusetts for $1000 prize money
Oct 17 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is created as a subsidiary of General Electric
Oct 18 Belvin Maynard wins the first transcontinental air race in round trip of nine days, four hours, 25 minutes and 12 seconds, race costs nine lives with 54 crashes or forced landings

Oct 18 David Beatty is created 1st Earl Beatty, Viscount Borodale, and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby

Oct 19 1st US Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a living female recipient, Anna Howard Shaw
Oct 26 US President Woodrow Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden
Oct 27 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
Oct 28 Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Woodrow Wilson's veto

Oct 1 Roy John Britten, American molecular biologist (repeated DNA sequences in eukaryotic genomes), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2012)
Oct 3 James M. Buchanan, American economist (Nobel Memorial 1986), born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (d. 2013)
Oct 3 John Boyd [Boyd Bradfield Upchurch], American sci-fi author (The Last Starship from Earth), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2013)
Oct 7 George Duby, French medieval historian (The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined), born in Paris, France (d. 1996)
Oct 7 Zelman Cowen, Australian legal scholar (Governor General of Australia 1977-82), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 2011)
Oct 8 Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (1991-93), born in Tokyo (d. 2007)
Oct 9 Irmgard Seefried, German soprano, born Köngetried, Bavaria (d. 1988)
Oct 12 Gilles Beaudoin, Canadian politician (Mayor of Trois-Rivières), born in Trois-Rivières, Canada (d. 2007)
Oct 14 Edward L. Feightner, American rear-admiral and WWII flying ace (Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands), born in Lima, Ohio (d. 2020)
Oct 15 Edwin Charles Tubb, British sci-fi writer (Earth is Heaven, Earthfall), born in London (d. 2010)
Oct 15 Malcolm Ross, American balloonist and atmospheric physicist, born in Momence, Illinois (d. 1985)
Oct 16 Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
Oct 17 Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist, Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro), Ukraine (d. 2021)

Oct 18 15th Canadian Prime Minister (Liberal: 1968-79, 1980-84), born in Montreal, Quebec

Oct 18 Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
Oct 20 Tracy Hall, American inventor (grew synthetic diamond), born in Ogden, Utah (d. 2008)
Oct 21 Claire Sterling, American journalist and writer (The Terror Network), born in Queens, New York (d. 1995)
Oct 21 Daniel John Cunningham, British physiologist (human breathing control), born in Kausali, India (d. 1996)
Oct 22 Doris Lessing, Iranian novelist (Adore, Memoirs of a Survivor, Golden Notebook), born in Kermanshah, Iran (d. 2013)
Oct 22 Kathleen Ankers, American scenic designer (d. 2001)
Oct 23 Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist who discovered ancient royal Macedonian tombs in northern Greece, born in Bursa, Ottoman Empire (d. 1992)
Oct 24 Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical engineer and helicopter aviation pioneer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2008)

Oct 26 American politician and 1st popularly elected African American to the US Senate (R-Mass: 1967-79), born in Washington, D.C.

Oct 26 last Shah of Iran (Persia) (1941-79), born in Tehran, Persia

Oct 31 Magnus Wenninger, American mathematician and author of Polyhedron models, born in Park Falls, Wisconsin (d. 2017)

Oct 6 Ricardo Palma, Peruvian writer and poet (Tradiciones Peruanas), dies at 86

Oct 7 Second Prime Minister of Australia (3 terms between 1903-10), dies at 63

Oct 8 Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la Robe), dies at 58
Oct 13 Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
Oct 14 Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrial/son of Werner, dies
Oct 22 Bruce Frederick Cummings, English author (Journal of a Disappointed Man), dies at 30
Oct 29 A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
Oct 29 Soen Shaku, Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, dies at 60
Oct 30 Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (Poems of Passion), dies at 68