Historical Events
- Oct 1 United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hr day
- Oct 4 1st escalator installed on the London Underground at Earl's Court Station
- Oct 5 Italian troops occupy Tripoli
- Oct 6 Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot
Wuchang Uprising
Oct 10 Chinese revolutionaries begin an armed rebellion against the ruling Qing dynasty in Wuchang, causing the Viceroy of Huguang to flee the city (Taiwan National Day)
PM Robert Borden
Oct 10 Robert Borden becomes the 8th Prime Minister of Canada
- Oct 10 The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
Helen Hayes Theater
Oct 20 Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210W 46th St, NYC
Amundsen Races to South Pole
Oct 20 Norwegian Roald Amundsen sets out a race to the South Pole
- Oct 21 Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union
- Oct 21 RS Hichens & M Hudsons "Garden of Allah" premieres in NYC
Italo-Turkish War
Oct 23 1st aerial reconnaissance mission is flown by an Italian pilot over Turkish lines during the Italo-Turkish War
Terra Nova Expedition
Oct 24 Captain Robert Falcon Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole
Wright's Glider Record
Oct 24 Orville Wright remains in the air for 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, setting a new world record that stands for 10 years
- Oct 25 London's last horse drawn omnibus made its way from London Bridge Station to Moorgate
- Oct 26 Baseball World Series: Philadelphia A's rout NY Giants, 13-2 at their Shibe Park home to clinch 4-2 series win and retain championship
- Oct 28 Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
- Oct 30 Clark Griffith is named manager of Washington Senators
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 1 Edward Boland, American politician (Rep-D-MA, 1953-89), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 2001)
- Oct 1 Herman Hickman, American College Football Hall of Fame guard, coach and broadcaster (Army, Yale), born in Johnson City, Tennessee (d. 1958)
- Oct 1 Irwin Kostal, American orchestra leader and arranger (West Side Story: The Sound Of Music; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1994)
- Oct 1 Riccardo Torriani, Swiss ice hockey player, luger (Olympic bronze 1928, 48; took the Olympic oath 1948), born in St. Moritz, Switzerland (d. 1988)
- Oct 2 Jack Finney, American sci-fi and thriller author (The Body Snatchers, Time and Again), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1995)
- Oct 2 Stuart Rose, British designer (British Post Office), born in London (d. 1993)
- Oct 3 Michael Hordern, British actor (Watership Down, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold), born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England (d. 1995)
- Oct 4 Mary Two-Axe Earley, Mohawk elder and human rights advocate (fought against women's status under the Indian Act), born on the Kahnawà:ke reserve, Quebec (d. 1996) [1]
- Oct 5 Flann O'Brien [Brian O'Nolan], Irish novelist (At Swim-Two-Birds; The Third Policeman), playwright, and satirist, born in Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland (d. 1966)
- Oct 7 (Jonathon) "Jo" Jones, American jazz drummer, and percussionist (Count Basie), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1985)
- Oct 7 Vaughn Monroe, American singer and orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), born in Akron, Ohio (d. 1973)
- Oct 9 Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (Pulitzer Prize-Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2006)
Clare Hollingworth (1911-2017)
Oct 10 British war correspondent who was the first to report on the outbreak of WWII, born in Knighton, England
- Oct 12 Louis de Guiringaud, French foreign minister (1976-78), born in Limoges, France (d. 1982)
Maribel Vinson (1911-1961)
Oct 12 American figure skater (9 time US National Champion) and coach, born in Winchester, Massachusetts
- Oct 12 Vijay Merchant, Indian cricket batsman (10 Tests, 3 x 100, HS 154; Bombay CC), born in Bombay, India (d. 1987)
- Oct 13 André Navarra, French concert cellist (Jolivet's Cello Concerto), and educator (Paris Conservatoire, 1947-88), born in Biarritz, France (d. 1988)
- Oct 13 Ashok Kumar [Dadamoni, Kumudlal Kunjilal Ganguly], Indian actor (Mahal, Afsana), born in Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 2001)
- Oct 13 Ticker Freeman, American pianist (Dinah Shore Show), born in Paterson, New Jersey (d. 1986)
- Oct 14 Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese revolutionary general, politician and negotiator in Paris (1975), born in Nam Định Province, French Indochina (d. 1990)
- Oct 15 James H. Schmitz, American sci-fi author (Lion Game), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1981)
- Oct 19 George Cates, American composer and orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show), born in New York City (d. 2002)
- Oct 19 Hilde Spiel, Austrian writer, born in Vienna (d. 1990)
- Oct 20 Will Rogers Jr, American politician (D-Representative 1943-44) writer, political commentator, and actor (Down to Earth), born in New York City (d. 1993)
- Oct 21 Peter Graves, British actor (Paradise Lagoon, Admirable Crichton), born in London, England (d. 1994)
- Oct 24 Clarence M. Kelley, American 2nd Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1973-77), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1997)
- Oct 24 Nathaniel Wyeth, American chemist and inventor (created PET plastic beverage bottle), born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (d. 1990)
- Oct 24 Paul Grégoire, French Canadian Archbishop of Montreal, born in Viauville, Montreal, Quebec (d. 1993)
- Oct 24 Sonny Terry, blind Piedmont blues musician, born in Greensboro, Georgia (d. 1986)
Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972)
Oct 26 American gospel singer ("Whole World In His Hands"), born in New Orleans, Louisianal;
- Oct 26 Sid Gillman, Pro & College Football Hall of Fame end (Ohio State U) and coach (U of Cincinnati, LA Rams, Houston Oilers), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 2003)
- Oct 26 Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (Poems to Eimhir and Other Poems), born in Osgaig, Raasay, Scotland (d. 1996)
- Oct 27 Leif Erickson, American actor (Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront), born in Alameda, California (d. 1986)
- Oct 29 Phillip Oppenheimer, British diamond trader (d. 1995)
- Oct 30 Eileen Ash-Whelan, English cricket medium pace bowler (7 WTests, 10 wickets, BB 4/68; Middlesex CC), born in London, England (d. 2021)
- Oct 30 Ruth Hussey, American actress (Another Thin Man), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 2005)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 1 Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans), dies at 77
- Oct 5 Charles Malherbe, French violinist and composer, dies at 58
- Oct 7 John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
- Oct 14 John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1877-1911), dies at 78
- Oct 18 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test (Binet–Simon test), dies at 54
Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911)
Oct 29 Hungarian-American publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World) and Democratic politician whose bequest founded the Columbia School of Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize, dies at 64
