What Happened in October 1877

Historical Events

Oct 5 Chief Joseph and his people surrender to the US Army, ending the Nez Perce War in the Western United States

Oct 9 American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland)
Oct 15 First session of the US 45th Congress (1877-79) convenes in Washington D.C.

Oct 17 Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa

Oct 20 Franz Schubert's 2nd Symphony in B premieres in London, England by Crystal Palace Orchestra, conducted by Alfred Manns

Oct 22 The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House.
Oct 24 Russo-Turkish War: Russian and Romanian forces encircle Plevna, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria), choking off supplies

Oct 2 William C. Fownes Jr, American golfer and administrator (US Amateur C'ship 1910; President US Golf Ass'n 1926-27), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1950)
Oct 4 Razor Smith, English cricket spin bowler (245 first class matches, Surry CCC), born in Oxford, England (d. 1946)
Oct 8 Hans Heysen, German-born landscape artist, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1968)
Oct 11 John Parsons Beach, American composer, born in Gloversville, New York (d. 1953)
Oct 13 Bernard Bosanquet, English cricketer (pioneer of googly), born in Bulls Cross, Enfield, Middlesex, England (d. 1936)
Oct 18 Florence Walrath, American adoption agency founder (The Cradle), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1958)

Oct 20 American businessman (New York Central Railway), born in New York City

Oct 20 Josephine McGill, American composer and folksong collector, born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1919)
Oct 24 Pavel Chesnokov, Russian-Soviet composer, born in Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast, Russia (d. 1944)
Oct 24 Rika Hopper, Dutch actress (Cesare, The Tars, Anastasia), born in Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands (d. 1964)
Oct 25 Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram), born in Oyster Bay, New York (d. 1957)
Oct 28 Joe Adams, American baseball player known as "Old Wagon Tongue" (St. Louis Cardinals - 1 game in 1904, 4 innings, 9.0 ERA), minor league manager, and restaurateur, born in Cowden, Illinois (d. 1952)
Oct 29 Narcisa de León, Filipino film mogul, born in San Miguel, Bulacan, Philippines (d. 1966)
Oct 29 Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (Yorks & Eng SLA, played Tests 1899-1930), born in Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, England (d. 1973)

Oct 3 James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 63
Oct 10 Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist, dies at 76
Oct 14 Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, French composer, dies at 68
Oct 16 John Zwijsen, archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 83
Oct 16 Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
Oct 28 Johann Herbeck, Austrian composer and conductor (conducted premiere of Franz Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony"), dies at 45
Oct 28 Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)

Oct 29 American slave trader, Confederate lieutenant general and KKK Grand Wizard, dies of complications from diabetes at 56