October 1926 in History

Events in History

Oct 14 A. A. Milne's book "Winnie the Pooh" released

Oct 18 Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenin's political testament

Oct 19 Russian Politburo throws out Leon Trotsky and his followers

Oct 22 J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal

Oct 24 Harry Houdini's last performance, at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan
Oct 26 Arthur Goodrich's "Caponsacchi" premieres in NYC
Oct 26 Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 "Belga")

Oct 31 Failed assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini by 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni, who was lynched on the spot.

Oct 2 Jan Morris, Welsh historian and travel writer (Among the Cities, Hong Kong, Journeys), born in Clevedon, Somerset, England
Oct 5 Willi Unsoeld, American mountaineer (First ascent of the West Ridge of Mount Everest), born in Arcata, California (d. 1979)
Oct 11 Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, born in Huế, Thừa Thiên-Huế Province, Vietnam
Oct 12 César Pelli, Argentine American architect (Petronas Towers), born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina (d. 2019)
Oct 15 Ed McBain [Evan Hunter], American writer (Blackboard Jungle), born in NYC, New York (d. 2005)
Oct 15 Michel Foucault, French philosopher and historian (The History of Sexuality), born in Poitiers (d. 1984)
Oct 17 Karl Gordon Henize, astronaut (STS 51-F), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
Oct 18 Thomas Millar, historian
Oct 19 Joel Feinberg, American moral philosopher (d. 2004)
Oct 22 Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian
Oct 25 Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter, born in Peshawar, Pakistan (d. 2007)
Oct 26 Yuri Aleksandrovich Letunov, Russian cosmonaut, born in Tomsk, Russia
Oct 27 H. R. Haldeman, Nixon's White House Chief of Staff (Watergate figure), born in Los Angeles (d. 1993)
Oct 31 Jimmy Savile, English entertainer and suspected sexual predator, born in Leeds (d. 2011)

Oct 4 Chemist Irene Joliot-Curie (29) weds physicist Frédéric Joliot (26) in Paris, France

Oct 18 Communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh (36) weds midwife Zeng Xueming (21) in Guangzhou

Oct 19 Pathologist Howard Florey (28) weds Ethel Reed at Holy Trinity Church in Paddington, New South Wales

Oct 6 Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies
Oct 6 Karel van den Oever, Flemish author and poet (Geuzenstad), dies at 46
Oct 7 Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist who developed a classification system for mental illness, dies at 70
Oct 12 Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (Flatland), dies at 87
Oct 13 Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian philological and writer (Driftekaren), dies at 61
Oct 19 Victor Babeş, Romanian physician and bacteriologist, dies at 72
Oct 20 Eugene V. Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate, dies at 70
Oct 22 Jules van den Heuvel, Belgian lawyer and politician, dies at 71

Oct 31 Harry Houdini, [Erich Weisz], magician, dies in Detroit of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured