Historical Events
- Oct 1 5 Russian warships welcomed in NYC
- Oct 1 Dutch Breda-Tilburg railway opens
Thanksgiving Day Designated
Oct 3 US President Abraham Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
- Oct 5 Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides
- Oct 6 Battle at Baxter Springs, Kansas
- Oct 6 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
- Oct 9 Battle of Brady Station, Virginia (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)
- Oct 10 Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties)
- Oct 11 Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee
- Oct 13 Skirmish at Blountsville, Tennessee (50 casualties)
- Oct 14 Battle at Bristoe Station, Virginia (about 2000 casualties)
- Oct 15 Cliff House opens in San Francisco, 1st of many on the site
- Oct 16 Grant is given command of Union forces in West
- Oct 18 Battle of Charlestown, WV
- Oct 18 Boulaq Museum is inaugurated in Cairo with French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette as director - the basis of the Egyptian National Museum [1]
- Oct 19 Battle of Buckland Mills, Virginia
- Oct 26 Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer, splitting with rugby
- Oct 26 International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields - beginning of the Red Cross
- Oct 27 Dutch railway to Harlingen opens
- Oct 27 First Sanitation Fair to raise funds for US Civil War relief opens in Chicago organized by Mary Ashton Livermore
- Oct 28 Battle at Wauhatchie, Georgia: 865 killed or injured
- Oct 29 International Committee of Red Cross forms as result Geneva held conference (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
- Oct 31 The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 3 Pyotr Kozlov, Russian explorer, born in Dukhovshchina, Russia (d. 1935)
- Oct 5 Ludwig Borchardt, German Egyptologist, born in Berlin (d. 1938)
- Oct 8 Edythe Chapman, American actress (Beyond the Rocks), born in Rochester, New York (d. 1948)
- Oct 9 Alexander Siloti, Russian pianist and composer, born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1945)
- Oct 10 Helen Dunbar, American actress (Fine Manners, Beyond the Rocks), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1933)
- Oct 10 Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (lifting 500 pounds (227 kg) with one finger and backlifting 4,337 pounds (1,967 kg)), born in Quebec, Canada (d. 1912)
- Oct 11 Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, French composer, born in Velletri, Italy (d. 1919)
- Oct 13 Auguste Rateau, French mining engineer and inventor (Rateau steam turbine), born in Royan, France (d. 1930)
- Oct 16 Austen Chamberlain, British statesman, (Foreign Secretary 1924-29, Nobel Peace Prize 1925 for anti-war Locano Pact), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1937)
- Oct 19 John Huston Finley, American academic and editor (NY Times 1937-38, President of the American Geographical Society), born in Grand Ridge, Illinois (d. 1940)
- Oct 24 Manuel Manrique de Lara, Spanish composer (The Oresteia), born in Cartagena, Murcia (d. 1929)
Famous Weddings
Edouard Manet
Oct 28 Painter Edouard Manet (31) weds Suzanne Leenhoff (34)
