Historical Events
- Oct 1 1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague)
Baseball History
Oct 1 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Jack Chesbro records final victory for the NY Highlanders before waived and claimed by Red Sox; beats Walter Johnson and Washington Senators, 2-1
Ford Puts Millions in the Driving Seat
Oct 1 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825)
Pravda Newspaper
Oct 3 Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna
- Oct 5 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar
- Oct 5 Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh beats Detroit Tigers, 6-1, his 40th victory of the MLB season; forces AL pennant race to the final day
- Oct 6 Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Oct 6 Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant
- Oct 6 Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season
- Oct 7 Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece
- Oct 7 Serbia & Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact
- Oct 8 Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
- Oct 8 NY Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)
- Oct 14 Baseball World Series: Chicago Cubs beat Detroit Tigers, 2-0 at Bennett Park, Detroit to clinch 4-1 series win; 6,210 fans is smallest crowd in WS history; Cubs retain title
- Oct 14 Upset over seating arrangements at the Baseball World Series, sports reporters form a professional group that will become Baseball Writers Association of America
- Oct 16 Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as Esquimoux
- Oct 18 Belgium annexes Congo Free State
Leopold II Sells Congo
Oct 20 King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium
- Oct 24 Billy Murray hits the charts with "Take Me Outto the Ball Game"
Daily Telegraph Affair
Oct 28 The English Newspaper the Daily Telegraph prints an interview with Germany's Emperor Wilhelm II, who characterises himself as personally friendly to Britain but suggests the German people are hostile, causing uproar in both countries
- Oct 31 IV Summer (Modern) Olympic Games close in London
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 1 Doug Young, Canadian NHL defenceman (Stanley Cup 1936-37, Detroit Red Wings captain), born in Medicine Hat, Alberta (d. 1990)
- Oct 1 Herman D. Koppel, Danish pianist and composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1998)
- Oct 3 David Herbert, British writer and raconteur (d. 1995)
- Oct 3 Zenobia Powell Perry, American composer (Tawawa House), educator, and civil rights activist, born in Boley, Oklahoma (d. 2004)
- Oct 5 Joshua Logan, Broadway producer (South Pacific), born in Texarcana, Texas (d. 1988)
- Oct 6 Carole Lombard [Jane Alice Peters], American actress (My Man Godfrey, In Name Only), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana (d. 1942)
- Oct 6 Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
- Oct 7 Richard Caldicot, British actor (Horse's Mouth, Strife, Mrs Thursday), born in London, England (d. 1995)
- Oct 8 Paul Van Buskirk Yoder, American composer, born in Tacoma, Washington (d. 1990)
- Oct 9 Harry Hooton, Australian poet, born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England (d. 1961)
- Oct 9 Jim Folsom, American politician (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), born in Coffee County, Alabama (d. 1987)
- Oct 9 Lee Wiley, American jazz singer, and lyricist (Night in Manhattan; "Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere"), born in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma (d. 1975)
- Oct 10 Johnny Green, American singer ("Body and Soul") and film score composer who won 5 Academy Awards, born in New York City (d. 1989)
- Oct 10 Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (La plaça del diamant), born in Barcelona (d. 1983)
- Oct 11 Armen Carapetyan, American musicologist and composer, born in Isfahan, Iran (d. 1992)
- Oct 12 Ann Lane Petry, American journalist and author (Street), born in Old Saybrook, Connecticut (d. 1997)
- Oct 12 Harmonica Frank [Floyd], American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, born in Toccopola, Mississippi (d. 1984)
- Oct 12 Paul Engle, American poet and writer (Worm Earth, American Song), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (d. 1991)
- Oct 13 John Grant, British rear-admiral (Royal Navy) (d. 1996)
- Oct 13 Werner Reinowski, German writer, born in Bernburg, Germany (d. 1987)
- Oct 14 Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress, born in Granger, Utah (d. 2003)
- Oct 15 Herman "Ivory" Chittison, American jazz pianist (Harlem Rhythm Makers), born in Flemingsburg, Kentucky (d. 1967) [1]
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)
Oct 15 Canadian-American economist and writer (Affluent Society - Sidney Hillman Award, 1958), born in Iona Station, Ontario
Enver Hoxha (1908-1985)
Oct 16 Albanian post-war communist leader and dictator of Albania (1944-85), born in Gjirokastër, Albania
- Oct 17 Red Rolfe, American baseball player (d. 1969)
- Oct 19 Patrick Cairns "Spike" Hughes, British jazz double bassist and composer (Elegy), born in London (d. 1987)
- Oct 19 [Nils] Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian classical pianist and composer, born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1981)
- Oct 20 Stuart Hamblen, American singer and composer (This Ole House), born in Kellyville, Texas (d. 1989)
- Oct 21 Alexander Schneider, Lithuanian violinist (Budapest String Quartet), born in Vilnius, Lithuania (d. 1993)
- Oct 21 Howard Ferguson, British-Irish pianist, composer, teacher and musicologist, born in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland) (d. 1999)
- Oct 22 Helmut Gollwitzer, German anti-Nazi theologian and pacifist, born in Pappenheim, Bavaria (d. 1993) [1]
- Oct 22 John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (Christian Science Monitor, 1942-2003), born in Brighton, Massachusetts (d. 2003)
- Oct 22 John Sutton, British actor (The Three Musketeers, Tower of London, Return of Fly), born in Rawalpindi, Punjab, British India (d. 1963)
- Oct 23 Ilya Mikhaylovich Frank, Russian Physicist and Nobel Laureate (Cherenkov radiation), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1990)
- Oct 23 Sally O'Neil, American actress (Beggar's Holiday, Moth), born in Bayonne, New Jersey (d. 1968)
- Oct 24 John Alwyne Kitching, British zoologist (d. 1996)
- Oct 24 John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (contributions to plate tectonics), born in Ottawa, Ontario (d. 1993)
- Oct 25 Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (L'histoire de Jonas), born in Belgium (d. 2004)
- Oct 27 Lee Krasner, American abstract expressionist painter, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1984)
- Oct 29 Jimmy Thomson, Scottish golfer (US Open 1935, PGA C'ship 1936 runner-up), born in North Berwick, Scotland (d. 1985)
- Oct 29 Stewart Myles MacPherson, Canadian-born British broadcaster (WWII), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba (d. 1995)
- Oct 30 Franco Margola, Italian composer, born in Orzinuovi, Lombardy, Italy (d. 1992)
