What Happened in October 1888

Historical Events

Oct 3 Explorer Fridtjof Nansen and his team complete first known crossing of Greenland interior, arriving in Godthaab

Oct 3 New Zealand Natives, a privately organised and mainly Māori rugby team, plays first game in UK; beats Surry 4-1; first national rugby team to wear all-black & perform the 'haka'
Oct 8 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Scotsman Jack Burns wins his lone Open title by 1 stroke from Ben Sayers and David Anderson Jr
Oct 9 Washington Monument opens for public admittance
Oct 10 Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 at Mud Run, Pennsylvania

Oct 15 German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche decides to write his autobiography "Ecce Homo" on his 44th birthday

Oct 17 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie)

Oct 19 Moshav Gederah is attacked by Arabs
Oct 20 Chicago and All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, New Zealand
Oct 23 Pelham Bay Park in Bronx vested
Oct 27 "World Championship" Baseball Series, Sportsman's Park, St. Louis; St. Louis Browns rout NY Giants, 18-7 in Game 10 but lose series, 6-4

Oct 29 Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for British South Africa Company

Oct 30 John J Loud patents ballpoint pen
Oct 30 Ndebele-king Lobengula grants Cecil Rhodes, Mashonaland £100 per month
Oct 31 Scottish vet John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tyre

Oct 3 Claud Allister, British actor (Kiss Me Kate, Quartet, Bulldog Drummond), born in London, England (d. 1970)
Oct 3 Roy Webb, American film score composer (films of Val Lewton), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1982)
Oct 4 Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (5-time World Champion all-round), born in Kristiania, Norway (d. 1954)
Oct 6 Max Butting, German composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1976)
Oct 6 Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
Oct 7 Cecil Coles, Scottish organist and composer (Behind the Lines), born in Tongland, Scotland (d. 1918)
Oct 7 Henry A. Wallace, American editor and politician (33rd US Vice-President 1941-45, founded Progressive Party), born near Orient, Iowa (d. 1965) [1]
Oct 8 Clifford Heatherley, British actor (Who Killed Doc Robin?), born in Preston, Lancashire, England (d. 1937)
Oct 9 Hank Patterson, American actor (Gunsmoke, Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), born in Springville, Alabama (d. 1975)
Oct 9 Irving Cummings Sr., American silent screen actor and director (Curly Top), born in New York City (d. 1959)
Oct 9 Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1938)
Oct 11 Piero Coppola, Italian conductor, artistic director (La Voix de son Maître (The Gramophone Company - France), 1923-34). pianist, and composer, born in Milan, Italy (d. 1971)
Oct 14 Ernest Pingoud, Finnish composer, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1942)

Oct 14 New Zealand short story writer (The Garden Party), born in Wellington, New Zealand

Oct 15 S.S. Van Dine [pseudonym for William Huntingdon Wright], American art critic and crime writer (Philo Vance), born in Charlottesville, Virginia (d. 1939)

Oct 16 American playwright (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936), born in New York City

Oct 16 Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
Oct 23 Onésime Gagnon, Canadian politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Québec (d. 1961)
Oct 25 François Pauwels, Dutch writer and attorney, born in Amsterdam (d. 1966)
Oct 25 Nils Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter, born in Bettna, Södermanland, Sweden (d. 1943)

Oct 25 American aviator and polar explorer (1st to reach both the North Pole and South Pole by air - disputed), born in Winchester, Virginia

Oct 26 Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader, born in Hulai-Pole, Russian Empire (d. 1934)
Oct 26 Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Segrande Eros), born in Helsinki (d. 1925)
Oct 30 Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek athlete (Olympic gold standing long jump, bronze high jump 1912, 2 silver 1908), born in Pylos, Greece (d. 1913)
Oct 31 George Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (Flying the Arctic), born in Hallett, Australia (d. 1958)
Oct 31 Harold Vincent Milligan, American musician and composer, born in Astoria, Oregon (d. 1951)
Oct 31 Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet, born in Athens, Greece (d. 1944)

Oct 4 Tom King, English boxer (English heavyweight champion 1862-63), rower and bookmaker, dies of bronchitus at 53
Oct 8 Jules d'Anethan, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Belgium (1870-71), dies at 85
Oct 16 John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
Oct 19 Amaat Vyncke, Belgian missionary to the Upper Congo (Flemish Wind), dies of swamp fever and liver disease at 38