Historical Events
Bolshevik Takeover
Oct 8 Leon Trotsky named chairman of the Petrograd Soviet as Bolsheviks gain control
- Oct 10 Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St NYC
- Oct 13 70,000 people gather to see 'Miracle of the Sun', solar visions reportedly by the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal after prophecies by local children
- Oct 13 Soviets accept establishment of Petrograd Military
- Oct 15 Baseball World Series: Chicago White Sox beat NY Giants, 4-2 at Brush Stadium to clinch series, 4-2 for their second WS triumph
Alice Paul Enters Jail
Oct 20 US suffragette Alice Paul begins a 7 month jail sentence for peacefully picketing in support of the women's Suffrage (right to vote) Amendment at the White House in Washington, D.C.
- Oct 21 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WWI: US troops enter front lines at Sommervillier under French command
- Oct 21 Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee
- Oct 23 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WW I
- Oct 24 Battle at Caporetto: German & Austria smash Italian army
- Oct 25 Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd
- Oct 26 Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military
- Oct 26 World War I: Brazil declares it is in a state of war with the Central Powers
- Oct 27 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York, US
Event of Interest
Oct 30 British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration
In the Zone
Oct 31 Eugene O'Neill's play "In the Zone" premieres in NYC
- Oct 31 World War I: Battle of Beersheba in southern Palestine - "last successful cavalry charge in history" performed by the 4th Australian Light Horse
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 1 René de Rooy, Surinamese and Antillean poet (Juancho Picaflor), born in Paramaribo, Suriname (d. 1974)
- Oct 2 Christian de Duve, British cytologist and biochemist (Nobel 1974), born in Thames Ditton, Surrey (d. 2013)
- Oct 2 Francis Jackson, British organist, composer (East Acklam; A Time of Fire), and music director (York Minster, 1946-82), born in Malton, Yorkshire, England (d. 2022)
- Oct 2 William Marshall, American singer, bandleader and actor (State Fair, Pennsylvanians), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1994)
- Oct 4 Albert de Klerk, Dutch organist, composer, and conductor, born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1998)
- Oct 4 Marv Harshman, American College/Basketball HOF coach (Pacific Lutheran, Washington State Uni, Uni of Washington; Pac-10 Coach of the Year 1982, 84), born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin (d. 2013)
- Oct 5 Lew Worsham, American golfer (US Open 1947; Ryder Cup 1947), born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia (d. 1990)
- Oct 5 Robert Adams, English sculptor and designer, born in Far Cotton, Northampton (d. 1984)
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
Oct 6 American civil rights activist (Freedom Summer, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), born in Montgomery County, Mississippi [1]
- Oct 7 June Allyson [Eleanor Geisman], American stage and screen actress (Best Foot Forward; Too Young to Kiss; The Glenn Miller Story; The DuPont Show with June Allyson), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2006)
- Oct 8 Danny Murtaugh, American baseball infielder (NL stolen base leader 1941 Philadelphia Phillies) and manager (World Series 1960, 71; Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Chester, Pennsylvania (d. 1976)
- Oct 8 Hans Poser, German composer, born in Tannenbergsthal (d. 1970)
- Oct 8 Walter Lord, American author (A Night to Remember), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2002)
- Oct 9 Kusuo Kitamura, Japanese 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic gold 1932), born in Kōchi, Japan (d. 1996)
- Oct 10 Ilona Ference, American actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night), born in Bar Harbor, Maine (d. 1996)
- Oct 10 Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist and composer ("Straight, No Chaser"; "'Round Midnight"; "Brilliant Corners"), born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina (d. 1982)
- Oct 11 Franz Alphons Wolpert, German composer, born in Wiesentheid, Germany (d. 1978)
- Oct 12 Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train), born in Blaricum, Netherlands (d. 1976)
- Oct 13 Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1985)
- Oct 15 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr, American historian (1946 Pulitzer-Age of Jackson), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 2007)
- Oct 15 Jan Miner, American actress (Crime Photographer), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2004)
- Oct 15 Paul Tanner, American trombonist (Glenn Miller Orchestra), developer and player of the Electro-Theremin (The Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations"; "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times"), and educator (UCLA), born in Skunk Hollow, Kentucky (d. 2013)
- Oct 16 Alice Pearce, American comedienne and actress (On the Town, Bewitched), born in New York City (d. 1966)
- Oct 17 Marsha Hunt, American actress (Born to the West; Cry 'Havoc'; Johnny Got His Gun), and human rights and peace activist, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2022)
- Oct 17 Martin Donnelly, New Zealand cricket batsman (7 Tests, 1 x 100, 4 x 50, HS 206; Wellington, Canterbury) and rugby union centre (1 Test England 1947), born in Ngāruawāhia, New Zealand (d. 1999)
- Oct 17 Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (d. 1991)
- Oct 20 Efrain Jonckheer, Premier of the Dutch Antilles, born in Curaçao (d. 1987)
- Oct 20 Jean-Pierre Melville, French filmmaker (A Cop), born in Paris, France (d. 1973)
- Oct 20 Ken Cranston, English cricket all-rounder (8 Tests, 18 wickets, BB 4/12; Lancashire CCC), Liverpool, England (d. 2007)
- Oct 21 John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter, a creator of bebop & modern jazz (A Night In Tunisia), born in Cheraw, South Carolina (d. 1993)
Joan Fontaine (1917-2013)
Oct 22 British-American Academy Award-winning actress (Gunga Din; Ivanhoe; Rebecca), born in Tokyo, Japan
- Oct 23 Robert Bray, American actor (Corey-Lassie, Stagecoach West), born in Kalispell, Montana (d. 1983)
- Oct 24 Marshall Goldberg, American College Football HOF back (Uni of Pittsburgh; All Pro, Pro Bowl 1941; Chicago Cardinals), born in Elkins, West Virginia (d. 2006)
- Oct 25 Lee MacPhail, American Baseball Hall of Fame executive (AL President 1974-83; Baltimore Orioles, NY Yankees), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 2012)
- Oct 26 Mario Biaggi, American politician (Rep-D&R-NY, 1969-88), born in New York (d. 2015)
- Oct 27 Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough, born in West Derby, Liverpool (d. 2007)
- Oct 27 Carl "Bama" Warwick, American jazz trumpeter (Dizzy Gillespie; John Kirby; Woody Herman; Buddy Rich), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2003)
- Oct 27 Jack Plimsoll, South African cricket fast bowler (1 Test, BB 3-143; manager RSA team to England 1965), born in Kalk Bay, South Africa (d. 1999)
Oliver Tambo (1917-1993)
Oct 27 South African lawyer, anti-apartheid politician and co-founder (African National Congress), born in Nkantolo, Bizana, South Africa
- Oct 28 Jack Soo [Goro Suzuki], Japanese-American actor (Flower Drum Song, Barney Miller), born in Oakland, California (d. 1979)
- Oct 29 Henry Carlsson, Swedish soccer (Olympic gold 1948), born in Falköping, Västra Götalands län, Sweden (d. 1999)
- Oct 30 Bobby Bragan, American baseball player, born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2010)
- Oct 30 Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (Le Mans, 1954). and vintner, born in Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes, France (d. 2005)
- Oct 30 Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal, born in Molokovo, Tver, Russian Republic (d. 1994)
- Oct 31 Erik Routley, British Congregational minister, composer and musicologist, born in England (d. 1982)
- Oct 31 William H. McNeill, Canadian-born historian (Rise of the West), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2016)
Famous Weddings
- Oct 21 Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats (52) weds Georgie Hyde-Lees (25)
Famous Deaths
Mata Hari (1876-1917)
Oct 15 Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and convicted German WWI spy, executed by firing squad at 41
Bob Fitzsimmons (1863-1917)
Oct 22 English boxer (first 3-division world champion; Middleweight 1981-96, Light Heavyweight 1903, Heavyweight 1897-99), dies from pneumonia at 54
- Oct 27 Arthur Rhys-Davids, English flying ace (WW I), dies at 20
- Oct 28 Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
- Oct 31 Tibby Cotter, Australian cricket fast bowler and soldier (21 Tests, 49 wickets), dies in world's last successful cavalry charge, 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba at 33
