Events in History
- Oct 5 British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais, France, 48 die
- Oct 5 Homecoming of the bodies of Swedish polar balloon expedition (1897) led by Salomon August Andrée
- Oct 9 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
- Oct 11 Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year.
- Oct 13 New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP members in uniform
- Oct 19 Jules Ladoumègue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6)
- Oct 20 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
- Oct 22 Blake & Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930" premieres in NYC
Coup d'état
Oct 24 A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas then installed as "provisional president."
Birthdays in History
- Oct 1 Naimatullah Khan, Pakistani politician
- Oct 2 Dave Barrett, 26th Premier of British Columbia (1972-75), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2018)
- Oct 5 Pavel Popovich, Ukrainian cosmonaut (Vostok IV, Soyuz 14), born in Uzyn, Kiev Oblast, Soviet Union (d. 2009)
- Oct 5 Rahmon Nabiyev, Tajik politician (First Secretary of The Communist Party, 1982-85; President of Tadzjikistan, 1991-92), born in Leninabad, Tajik SSR (now Khujand, Tajikistan) (d. 1992)
- Oct 5 Reinhard Selten, German economist (Nobel Prize 1994), born in Breslau, Germany (d. 2016)
Hafez al-Assad (1930-2000)
Oct 6 General and President of Syria (1971-2000), born in Qardaha, Alawite State, Syria
- Oct 8 Faith Ringgold, American artist (We Came to America), born in Harlem, New York
- Oct 10 Adlai Stevenson III, American politician (U.S. Senator from Illinois), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Oct 10 Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani Urdu poet, born in Allahabad, India (d. 1970)
- Oct 11 Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet diplomat who defected to the US (Foreign Ministry, 1958-73; United Nations Under-Secretary, 1973-78), born in Horlivka, Ukrainian SSR (d. 1998)
- Oct 11 Sam Johnson, American politician (Rep-R-Texas), born in San Antonio, Texas
- Oct 13 Piet Clase, South African politician (Minister of Education), born in Bothaville, South Africa
Mobutu Sese Seko (1930-1997)
Oct 14 Dictator and President of Zaire (1965-97), born in Lisala, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Oct 15 FM-2030 [Fereidoun M. Esfandiary], Iranian-American author and transhumanist (Are You a Transhuman?), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 2000)
- Oct 17 Jimmy Breslin, American investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist (NY Post; Daily News: Newsday), and novelist The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight), born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)
- Oct 17 Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
- Oct 18 Frank C. Carlucci, National Security Adviser/Sec of Defense (1987-89), born in Scanton, Pennsyslvania (d. 2018)
- Oct 19 Thomas ap Rees, British botanist, born in Frome, England (d. 1996)
- Oct 21 Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London)
- Oct 24 Johan Galtung, Norwegian polemologist (Meaning of Nonviolence), born in Oslo, Norway
- Oct 24 Sultan Ahmad Shah, 7th King of Malaysia (1979-84), born in Pekan, Pahang, Federated Malay States, British Malaya (d. 2019)
- Oct 26 John Arden, English novelist and playwright (Left Handed Liberty), born in Barnsley, England (d. 2012)
- Oct 29 Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France (d. 2002)
- Oct 31 Bill Pearl, American bodybuilder (5 x Mr. Universe), born in Prineville, Oregon (d. 2022)
Michael Collins (1930-2021)
Oct 31 American Major General USAF and astronaut (Gemini 10, Apollo 11), born in Rome, Italy [1] [2]
Weddings in History
Deaths in History
- Oct 3 Charles Louis Philippe Zilcken, Dutch painter and author (Bauer), dies at 73
- Oct 5 Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
- Oct 10 Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
- Oct 14 Samuel van Houten, Dutch politician and philosopher (Child labor laws), dies at 93
- Oct 15 Ernest Wilson, English botanist (plant collector in China), dies in a car accident at 54
Herbert Henry Dow (1866-1930)
Oct 15 American chemical industrialist (Dow Chemical), dies from cirrhosis of the liver at 64
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