Events in History
- Oct 2 British occuping army leaves Constantinople
Event of Interest
Oct 5 Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
- Oct 6 US Lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record)
- Oct 6 USSR adopts experimental calendar
- Oct 10 Saxony gets Social Democratic & Communist coalition government
- Oct 11 German Mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $
- Oct 13 Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital
- Oct 16 John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
- Oct 17 Catholic University of Nijmegen Neth opens
- Oct 19 Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Völkischer Beobachter
- Oct 21 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich
- Oct 24 General Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship
Historic Publication
Oct 25 Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal
- Oct 26 Dutch Government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns
- Oct 26 Dutch second Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)
- Oct 29 Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxony
- Oct 29 Mustafa Kemal officially confirms Turkey as a republic (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), now commemorated annually as the Republic Day of Turkey
- Oct 29 Textile strike against lower wages begins in Enschede, Netherlands
- Oct 29 Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire)
- Oct 31 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees F begin at Marble Bar, Australia
Birthdays in History
- Oct 2 Jack Dellal, English immovables-goedbezitter/multi-millionaire, (d. 2012)
- Oct 3 Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician, born in Vieille Case, Dominica (d. 2004)
- Oct 5 Philip Berrigan, American peace activist and Roman Catholic priest, born in Two Harbors, Minnesota (d. 2002)
- Oct 5 Stig Dagerman, Swedish writer (Burned Child), born in Älvkarleby, Uppsala County, Sweden (d. 1954)
- Oct 6 Yaşar Kemal, Turkish writer (Memed, My Hawk), born in Hemite, Osmaniye, Ottoman Empire (d. 2015)
- Oct 7 Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps
- Oct 7 Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
- Oct 12 Jean Nidetch, businesswoman and founder of Weight Watchers, born in Brooklyn, New York
- Oct 13 Dorothy Bolden, American civil and women's rights activist, and founder of the National Domestic Worker's Union of America, born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2005)
- Oct 15 Italo Calvino, Italian author (If on a Winter's Night a Traveler), born in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba (d. 1985)
- Oct 18 Suzanne Perlman, Hungarian-Dutch Antilian painter
- Oct 20 Joe Minogue, British journalist (Guardian)
- Oct 24 Denise Levertov, American poet and essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin), born in Ilford, Essex, England (d. 1997)
- Oct 27 Roy Lichtenstein, Pop art painter (painted comic book panels), born in NYC, New York (d. 1997)
Carl Djerassi (1923-2015)
Oct 29 Austrian-born American chemist and father of the contraceptive pill, born in Vienna, Austria
- Oct 31 Hicks B. Waldron, Chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc., born in Amsterdam, New York (d. 2017)
Weddings in History
Francisco Franco
Oct 16 General Francisco Franco (30) marries María del Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdés (23) at Church of San Juan el Real in Oviedo
Deaths in History
Bonar Law (1858-1923)
Oct 30 British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1922-23), dies of throat cancer at 64
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