What Happened in October 1873

Historical Events

Oct 3 Modoc tribe Chief Kintpuash (also known as Captain Jack), the only Native American leader ever charged with war crimes, hanged by US Army at Fort Klamath, Oregon

British Golf Open

Oct 4 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Scotsman Tom Kidd beats countryman Jamie Anderson by 1 stroke; first Open not held at Prestwick GC

Oct 4 Toronto Argonauts Football Club (CFL) forms as Argonaut Rowing Club rugby-football squad; oldest existing pro sports team in North America still using original name
Oct 8 First women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute
Oct 11 Toronto Argonaut Football Club 1st game losing to U of Toronto
Oct 18 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts & Hamilton Tigers
Oct 18 Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football

Symphony No. 2

Oct 26 Anton Bruckner leads the Vienna Philharmonic in the premiere of his "Symphony No. 2"

Greatest Show on Earth

Oct 30 P. T. Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth", debuts (New York City)

Circus Showman and Businessman P. T. Barnum

Events in 1873

Famous Birthdays

Oct 2 Sir Pelham Warner, English cricket batsman, tour manager and administrator (15 Tests; MCC chairman of selectors), born in The Hall, Port of Spain, Trinidad (d. 1963)
Oct 2 Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland), born in Savage, Maryland (d. 1938)
Oct 6 Oscar Sonneck, American editor (The Musical Quarterly), musicologist, and librarian (Library of Congress, 1902-17), born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 1928)
Oct 8 Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram), born in Frederiksberg, Denmark (d. 1967)
Oct 9 Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist, born in Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary (d. 1944)
Oct 9 Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (Schwarzschild effect), born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1916)
Oct 14 José Serrano Simeón, Spanish composer, born in Sueca, Valencia, Spain (d. 1941)
Oct 14 Jules Rimet, French football administrator (3rd President of FIFA 1921-54), born in Theuley, Franche-Comté, France (d. 1956)
Oct 14 Ray Ewry, American track and field athlete (8 Olympic golds 1900, 04, 08), born in Lafayette, Indiana (d. 1937)
Oct 18 Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
Oct 19 Bart King, American cricket pioneer (North America's greatest all-rounder; helped develop art of swing bowling), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1965)

Jaap Eden (1873-1925)

Oct 19 Dutch athlete (World Cycling C'ship gold 10k 1894, sprint 1895; World Speed Skating C'ship gold allround 1893, 95, 96), born in Groningen, Netherlands

Oct 21 George Peabody Gooch, English historian and politician, born in London, England (d. 1968)
Oct 22 Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat, born in Ekenäs, Finland (d. 1950)
Oct 23 William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (modern x-ray tube), born in Hudson, Massachusetts (d. 1975)
Oct 24 Edmund Taylor Whittaker, British mathematician (applied mathematics and the theory of special functions), physicist and historian of science, born in Southport, England (d. 1956)
Oct 26 Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (1924-26, 1929-42), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1942)
Oct 27 Henry Tate, Australian composer and poet, born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1926)
Oct 29 Guillermo Valencia, Colombian poet, translator and statesman, born in Popayán, Cauca, Colombia (d. 1943)
Oct 30 Francisco I. Madero, Mexican revolutionary and 33rd President of Mexico (1911-13), born in Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila, Mexico (d. 1913)

Born in 1873

Famous Deaths

Oct 2 Cornelius Varley, water-color painter, dies
Oct 3 Kintpuash (also known as Captain Jack), Native American leader, chief of the Modoc tribe of California and Oregon, hanged by US Army for war crimes at about 35
Oct 6 Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist, dies at 76
Oct 9 George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
Oct 10 Hermann Kurz, German poet and novelist (Schillers Heimatjahre), dies at 59
Oct 15 [Eleanor] Agnes Lee, American daughter of US Confederate general Robert E. Lee, dies of typhoid fever at 32