Historical Events
Little Women
Oct 1 "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is published in America by Roberts Brothers of Boston
- Oct 1 1st edition of Maasbode published
- Oct 1 St Pancras railway station opens in London, largest single span roof in the world (689ft (240m) long, 100ft high (30m) a high point of Victorian Gothic architecture [1]
- Oct 7 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
- Oct 10 1st written account of a Canadian football game
- Oct 10 Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
- Oct 17 Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect
- Oct 21 Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, California
- Oct 22 Jacques Offenbach's opera "Genevieve de Brabant" premieres in NYC
- Oct 26 White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La
- Oct 30 John Menard of Louisiana is 1st African American elected to US Congress
- Oct 31 Standard uniform approved for US postal carriers
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 4 Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of Argentina (1922-28), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1942)
Fred Hovey (1868-1945)
Oct 7 American tennis player (US Nationals 1895), born in Newton Centre, Massachusetts
- Oct 8 Max Slevogt, German painter, born in Landshut, Germany (d. 1932)
- Oct 10 Guillermo M. Tomás, Cuban composer, born in Cienfuegos, Cuba (d. 1933)
- Oct 16 Franz Ritter von Epp, German general and Nazi official (Reichsstatthalter for Bavaria 1933-45), born in Munich, Bavaria (d. 1947)
- Oct 18 Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)
- Oct 19 Bertha Knight Landes, American politician (1st female mayor of any major US city - Mayor of Seattle 1926-28), born in Ware, Massachusetts (d. 1943)
- Oct 23 Frederick Lanchester, English Engineer who built the first British petrol automobile (1896), born in London, England (d. 1946)
- Oct 24 Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and writer, born in Saint-Mandé, France (d. 1969)
- Oct 27 Annie Patterson, Irish organist, composer, and musicologist, born in Lurgan, Ireland (d. 1934)
- Oct 28 James Connolly, American athlete and author, 1st Modern Olympic Champion in 1896, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1957)
Famous Deaths
Mongkut (1804-1868)
Oct 1 King of Thailand (1851-68), opened country to the West (model for musical "The King and I"), dies of malaria at 63
Laura Secord (1775-1868)
Oct 17 Canadian heroine of the war of 1812, dies at 93
