Historical Events
- Oct 3 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Jack Simpson wins in windy conditions by 4 strokes from fellow Scots Douglas Rolland and Willie Fernie
- Oct 6 Naval War College forms in Newport, Rhode Island
- Oct 13 International Meridian Conference in Washington DC establishes Greenwich in London, England as the universal time meridian of longitude
Photographic Film
Oct 14 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
- Oct 15 Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn pitches his 60th win of season for MLB Providence Grays in 8-0 win over Quakers at Philadelphia
- Oct 22 General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi
- Oct 22 International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide, creating 24 international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich meridian
- Oct 22 Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series Oct 23-25 at Polo Grounds NYC to determine baseball champion
- Oct 25 1st "World Championship" Baseball Series, Polo Grounds, NYC: Providence Grays (NL) beat NY Mets (American Association), 12-2 in 6 innings for 3 game sweep; game abandoned because of bitter cold
- Oct 27 Architect Henry Hardenberghs Dakota apartment complex opens in NYC
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 5 Hendrik Tilanus, Dutch artillery officer and political leader (CHU 1939-63), born in Deventer, Netherlands (d. 1966)
- Oct 6 Lloyd Spooner, American sports shooter (4 x Olympic gold, 1 x silver, 2 x bronze 1920), born in Tacoma, Washington (d. 1966)
- Oct 8 Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (The Severity Order - allowing for killing non-combatant Jews), born in Karlsruhe, Germany (d. 1942)
- Oct 9 Helene Deutsch [Rosenbach], Polish-American psychoanalyst, born in Przemyśl, Poland (d. 1982)
- Oct 9 Martin Elmer Johnson, American adventurer and filmmaker, born in Rockford, Illinois (d. 1937)
- Oct 10 Ferdinand Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer and writer (Bint), born in Amsterdam (d. 1965)
- Oct 10 Ormy Pearse, South African cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa in Australia 1910-11), born in Pietermaritzberg, Natal (d. 1953)
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Oct 11 American diplomat (UN Commission on Human Rights), activist and First Lady of the United States (1933-45), born in New York City
- Oct 11 Friedrich Bergius, German chemist (benzine from brown coal, Nobel 1931), born in Breslau (Wrocław), Germany (d. 1949)
- Oct 11 Robert Müller-Hartmann, German composer, born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1950)
- Oct 11 Sig Ruman [Siegfried Albon Rumann], German-American actor (Schultz-Life With Luigi), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1967)
- Oct 12 Godfrey Tearle, English-American actor (39 Steps, Mandy, At Dawn We Die), born in New York City (d. 1953)
- Oct 14 Jimmy Conlin, American actor (Sin of Harold Diddlebock), born in Camden, New Jersey (d. 1962)
- Oct 15 Archibald Hoxsey, American pioneer aviator (worked for the Wright brothers), born in Staunton, Illinois (d. 1910)
- Oct 16 Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor known for bronze wildlife work, born in Milan, Italy- (d. 1916)
- Oct 17 Floyd Smith, American aviator and inventor of the modern parachute, born in Geneseo, Illinois (d. 1956) [1]
- Oct 17 Lewis Bennison, American actor (The Road Called Straight), born in Oakland, California (d. 1929)
- Oct 20 Thomas Chalmers, American opera singer, actor, and filmmaker (Blind Alleys, Outrage), born in New York City (d. 1966)
D. S. Senanayake (1884-1952)
Oct 21 Ceylonese politician and leader of Sri Lankan independence movement (1st Prime Minister of Ceylon, 1947-52), born in Botale, British Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
Famous Weddings
William Jennings Bryan
Oct 1 American politician William Jennings Bryan (24) weds writer and future suffragette Mary Elizabeth Baird (23)
