Historical Events
PGA Championship
Oct 1 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Inwood CC: Walter Hagen beats former champion Jim Barnes of England 3 & 2; Hagan's third major title
- Oct 1 WJZ, Newark NJ begins broadcasting
- Oct 2 Chicago White Sox backstop Ray Schalk becomes the first and only MLB catcher to make a putout at all bases; White Sox beat Indians 7-4
- Oct 4 League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
- Oct 4 Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected President of Free State of Fiume
- Oct 5 First Baseball World Series radio broadcast; all-NY contest, Yankees beat Giants, 3-0 at Polo Grounds; sportswriter Grantland Rice is the caller
- Oct 5 Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect
- Oct 5 Writer Grantland Rice does the announcing as the New York Giants-New York Yankees Baseball World Series is broadcast for the first time over radio (WJZ & WGY) - he is not at the game, but in the studio reading updates received by telegraph
- Oct 6 Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished 1962)
- Oct 6 Fewest hits in a Baseball World Series game; NY Yankees beat NY Giants 3-0 at Polo Grounds in Game 2, on 3 hits to Giants 2
- Oct 6 International PEN, a worldwide association of writers is founded in London
- Oct 9 Babe Ruth hits 1st World Series home run; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
- Oct 10 NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10
- Oct 13 Baseball World Series: NY Giants beat NY Yankees, 1-0 at the Polo Grounds for a 5-3 series win; final WS played in best-of-nine format; Yankees first ever WS appearance
- Oct 16 Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin-only mid-game coaching change in NFL history
- Oct 17 Belgium's public library law goes into force
- Oct 18 Biding its time, Soviet Russia agrees to independence for the Crimea
Pop-up Toaster
Oct 18 Charles Strite granted US patent #1,394,450 for his invention, the automatic pop-up toaster
- Oct 19 Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup
- Oct 20 Germany and Allies comes to an agreements over reparation payments in a meeting at Wiensbaden
- Oct 20 The French and Mustafa Kemal nationalists sign a treaty at Ankara fixing the Turko-Syrian border
- Oct 21 Former Hungarian King Karl stages a second attempted coup and is arrested
- Oct 21 Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam
- Oct 23 Green Bay Packers play 1st APFA (forerunner to NFL) game; beat Minneapolis Marines, 7-6 at Hagemeister Park, Green Bay, WI
Kat'a Kabanova
Oct 23 Leos Janacek's opera "Kat'a Kabanova" premieres in Brno
- Oct 26 Solomon Porter Hood named US minister to Liberia
- Oct 28 Amsterdam's Tuschinski movie theater opens
- Oct 28 First American gubernatorial recall election is held in North Dakota. Governor Lynn Frazier loses to Ragnvald A. Nestos by just over 4,000 votes (1.8%).
- Oct 29 The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed in northern California and Oregon
The Sheik
Oct 30 "The Sheik", a silent film starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres in Los Angeles, California
- Oct 31 Federation Sportive Feminine International forms (1st woman track & field association)
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 1 Héctor Campos Parsi, Puerto Rican classical music composer, born in Ponce, Puerto Rico (d. 1997)
- Oct 1 James Whitmore, American actor (The Shawshank Redemption, Give 'em Hell Harry), born in White Plains, New York (d. 2009)
- Oct 2 Albert Scott Crossfield, American test pilot (XS-1), born in Berkeley, California (d. 2006)
- Oct 2 Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, born in Liverpool, England (d. 2000)
- Oct 3 Ray Lindwall, Australian cricket fast bowler (61 Tests, 228 wickets @ 23.03), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1996)
- Oct 4 Shin Kyuk-Ho, Korean businessman (Lotte Corporation), born in Ulsan, Korea (d. 2020)
- Oct 5 Bill Willis, American College-Pro Football HOF defensive tackle (NFL C'ship 1950; 4 × First-team All-Pro; 3 × Pro Bowl; Cleveland Browns), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 2007)
- Oct 6 Evgenii Landis, Soviet Russian mathematician, born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (d. 1997)
- Oct 7 John Gere, English art historian (Keeper of Prints and Drawings British Museum) (d. 1995)
- Oct 8 Abraham Sarmiento, Sr., Filipino Supreme Court jurist (1987-91), born in Santa Cruz, Ilocos Sur, Philippine (d. 2010)
- Oct 9 Dot Wilkinson, American pro bowler (WIBC Queen's Tournament 1962, WIBC singles title 1963) and softball player (19 x All American), born in Phoenix, Arizona (d. 2023)
- Oct 9 Michel Boisrond, French film director and screenwriter, born in Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais, France (d. 2002)
- Oct 10 Boy Trip, Dutch minister, born in Amersfoort, Netherlands (d. 1990)
- Oct 10 James Clavell, British-American novelist (Tai-Pan; Shogun; Noble House; King Rat), screenwriter (The Fly; The Great Escape), and film director (King Rat; To Sir, with Love), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1994)
Jaroslav Drobný (1921-2001)
Oct 12 Czech ice hockey player (Olympic silver 1948) and tennis player (Wimbledon 1954, French Open 1951-52), born in Prague, Czech Republic
- Oct 12 Les Horvath, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback and halfback (Heisman Trophy 1944; first Ohio State player to win the award; National C'ship 1942), born in South Bend, Indiana (d. 1995)
- Oct 13 Harper MacKay, American orchestra leader (NBC Follies), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1995)
- Oct 13 Yves Montand [Ivo Livi], Italian-French actor and singer (Z, Napoleon, Grand Prix), born in Monsummano Terme, Italy (d. 1991)
- Oct 15 Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian table tennis player (World C'ship gold x 17; singles 1950-55), born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 2006)
- Oct 15 Gul Mohammad, Pakistani cricket batsman (9 Tests [8 India, 1 Pakistan], HS 34, 2 wickets; Baroda), born in Lahore, Pakistan (d. 1992)
- Oct 16 Matt Batts, MLB catcher (Red Sox), born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 2013)
- Oct 16 Michael Conrad, American Emmy Award-winning actor (Hill Street Blues - "Sgt. Phil Esterhaus"), born in New York City (d. 1983)
- Oct 17 George Mackey Brown, Scottish poet and playwright, born in Stromness, Orkney Islands, Scotland (d. 1996)
- Oct 17 Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian gymnast (equal record 7 x Olympic medals, Soviet Union 1952; 2 x gold [team, all-round], 5 x silver), born in Yevpatoria, Russia (d. 2001)
- Oct 17 Priscilla Buckley, American editor and columnist (National Review), born in New York City (d. 2012)
- Oct 17 Tom Poston, American actor (Newhart - "George Utley"; Mork & Mindy - "Franklin Bickley"; The Bob Newhart Show; The Steve Allen Show), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 2007)
- Oct 18 Jesse Helms, American politician (Senator -D/R-North Carolina, 1973-2003), born in Monroe, North Carolina (d. 2008)
- Oct 19 George Nader, American actor (Robot Monster, Away All Boats), born in Pasadena, California (d. 2002)
- Oct 19 Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish soccer striker (33 caps; AC Milan; Olympic gold 1948), born in Hörnefors, Sweden (d. 1995)
- Oct 20 Hans Warren, Dutch writer, poet and critic (Secret Diary), born in Borssele, Netherlands (d. 2001)
- Oct 20 Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist and politician (kidnapped and murdered while Vice-Premier of Quebec), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1970)
- Oct 21 Jarmil Burghauser [Mokrý], Czech composer, choirmaster, conductor, and musicologist, born in Pisek, Czech Republic (d. 1997)
- Oct 21 Sir Malcolm Arnold, British trumpeter, and classical and film score composer (The Bridge On The River Kwai), born in Northampton, England (d. 2006)
- Oct 22 Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
- Oct 22 Georges Brassens, French poet and singer-songwriter (Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète), born in Cette, France (d. 1981)
- Oct 23 Denise Duval, French soprano (music of Francis Poulenc), born in Paris (d. 2016)
- Oct 23 İlhan Usmanbaş, Turkish contemporary classical composer, born in Constantinople (now İstanbul), Turkey
- Oct 23 Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus), born in The Hague (d. 1972)
- Oct 25 Brian Malzard Foss, British psychologist, born in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire (d. 1997)
- Oct 25 Michael I, King of Romania (1927-30, 1940-47), born in Peleș Castle, Sinaia, Romania (d. 2017)
- Oct 26 George Forrest, Northern Irish politician (d. 1968)
- Oct 27 Anestis Logothetis, Austrian composer, born in Burgas, Bulgaria (d. 1994)
- Oct 27 Warren Allen Smith, American gay rights activist and writer, born in Minburn, Iowa (d. 2017)
- Oct 28 Arturo "Chico" O'Farrill, Cuban Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz composer, arranger, and conductor, born in Havana, Cuba (d. 2001)
- Oct 28 Peggy Kirk, American golfer, (Titleholders Championship 1949), born in Findlay, Ohio (d. 2016)
- Oct 29 Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers (Pulitzer-1945, 59), born in Mountain Park, New Mexico (d. 2003)
- Oct 29 Edward "Ed" Kemmer, American actor (Space Patrol, Lux Video Theatre), born in Reading, Pennsylvania (d. 2004)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 17 Katherine Griffith [Kiernan], American actress (Pollyanna, Fast Company), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 45
- Oct 17 Yaa Asantewaa, Ghanaian queen of Ashanti Empire, led fight against British colonialism, dies at 80 or 81
- Oct 18 King Ludwig III, the last king of Bavaria (1913-18), dies at 76
- Oct 19 Antonio Granjo, premier (Portugal), murdered
- Oct 23 John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor and vet (pneumatic rubber tire, Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81
- Oct 25 Bat Masterson, American gunfighter in the Wild West, dies of a heart attack at 67
