What Happened in October 1886

Historical Events

Oct 15 Modest Mussorgsky's musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain" premieres at Kononov Hall, in St. Petersburg, Russia

Oct 23 "World Championship" Baseball Series, Sportsman's Park, St. Louis: St.L Browns edge Chicago White Stockings, 4-3 in 10 innings in Game 6 to take series, 4-2

Oct 28 Statue of Liberty dedicated by US President Grover Cleveland, celebrated by first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City

Oct 1 Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian and author (My Life), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1954)
Oct 2 Pierre Balledux, Dutch actor, theatre director (The Hague Players), and resistance fighter, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1976)
Oct 3 Henri Alain-Fournier, French novelist (Le Grand Meaulnes), born in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, Cher, France (d. 1914)
Oct 4 Luis Alberni, Spanish character actor (The Lady Eve, Topaze), born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (d. 1962)
Oct 5 Carter DeHaven, American actor (Courage Great Dictator), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1977)
Oct 6 Edwin Fischer, Swiss concert pianist and conductor, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1960)
Oct 7 Johannes Tielrooy, Dutch literary figure (biography of Chateaubriand), born in Texel, Netherlands (d. 1953)
Oct 9 Frank Newburg, American actor (Homemaker), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1969)

Oct 9 American Baseball HOF pitcher (NL wins leader 1912; NL strikeout leader 1911; no-hitter 1915; NY Giants), born in Cleveland, Ohio

Oct 12 Karl Dane, Danish-American comedian and actor (Son of the Sheik), born in Copenhagen (d. 1934)
Oct 16 Armin T. Wegner, German medic, photographer, writer, and civil rights activist (documented the Armenian Genocide), born in Eberfeld, Germany (d. 1978) [1]

Oct 16 1st Prime Minister of Israel (1948-53, 1955-63), born in Płonsk, Poland

Oct 17 Spring Byington, American actress (December Bride), born in Colorado Springs, Colorado (d. 1971)
Oct 22 Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (d. 1970)
Oct 23 Lena Blackburne, American baseball infielder, manager, coach (Chicago White Sox; discovered rubbing clay to take the shine off baseballs), born in Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania (d. 1968)
Oct 24 Delmira Agustini, Uruguayan poet (El Libro Blanco), born in Montevideo, Uruguay (d. 1914)

Oct 25 Austro-Hungarian economic anthropologist (The Great Transformation), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary

Oct 25 Leo G. Carroll, English actor (Topper; Strangers On A Train; The Man From U.N.C.L.E.), born in Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire (d. 1972)
Oct 26 Gustav Hermann Unger, German composer, born in Kamenz, Germany (d. 1958)
Oct 26 Mark Aldanov, Russian-French writer and critic (Novy Zhurnal), born in Kiev (d. 1957)
Oct 28 Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, born in Ghoresha, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1937)
Oct 30 Zoe Akins, American playwright (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1935), born in Humansville, Missouri (d. 1958)

Oct 1 William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, dies at 76
Oct 8 Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (b. 1819)
Oct 10 David L Yule, 1st Jewish US senator, dies
Oct 18 Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
Oct 21 Jose Hernandez, Argentine poet (La vuelta the MartinFierro), dies at 51
Oct 23 Johann Nepomuk Kafka, Bohemian pianist and composer, dies at 67