Historical Events
- Oct 1 Former Chicago Staleys play first NFL game as Chicago Bears; beat Racine Legion, 6-0 at Horlick Field, Racine, Wisconsin
Baseball Record
Oct 1 St. Louis Cardinals 2nd baseman Rogers Hornsby hits 3-for-5 in 7-1 regular season ending win v Chicago Cubs; improves batting average to .401; only MLB player to bat .400 and hit 40 HRs in same season
- Oct 3 1st facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.
- Oct 3 Governor of Georgia names Progressive writer Rebecca Felton (87) to fill unexpired term in US Senate; she becomes 1st woman in Congess, oldest person (at the time), and shortest termed as she served only 24 hours in Novemberrgia Governor Hardwickbecomes 1st woman in Senate [1]
- Oct 4 Protocol for the Reconstruction of Austria, between the government of Austria and the governments of Great Britain, France, Italy and Czechoslovakia, for reconstructing the Austrian economy, signed in Geneva, Switzerland
- Oct 5 NY Yankees and NY Giants play out a controversial 3-3 tie in 10 innings in Game 2 of Baseball World Series at Polo Grounds, Manhattan, NYC; Giants win series, 4-0-1
- Oct 6 The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul
- Oct 7 First radio link, WNJ (Newark) & WGY (Senectady) link for World Series
World Series Played in the Rain
Oct 7 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain
- Oct 7 Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria
- Oct 8 Baseball World Series: NY Giants beat NY Yankees, 5-3 at the Polo Grounds in Game 5 for a 4-0-1 series win; Game 2 tied
- Oct 11 First woman FBI "special investigator", Alaska Davidson, appointed
- Oct 11 Turkey & Greece sign cease fire
- Oct 14 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC
- Oct 14 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens on Third Avenue NYC
- Oct 17 Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London
- Oct 18 British Broadcasting Company (BBC) founded, later called British Broadcasting Corporation
- Oct 20 Kennelworth in Bronx renamed Dwight Place
- Oct 22 Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, NY, named after a knight in Wagner's opera
- Oct 23 Channing Pollock's play "Fool" premieres in NYC
PM Bonar Law
Oct 23 Conservative Andrew Bonar Law forms government in United Kingdom, replacing David Lloyd George's Liberal government
- Oct 24 German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925
- Oct 24 Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State
Gertrude Bell Appointed
Oct 26 Gertrude Bell appointed Honorary Director of Antiquities in new Department of Antiquities in Baghdad, Iraq (origin of the Baghdad Archaeological Museum)
Fascists Seize Power
Oct 26 Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists led by Benito Mussolini
- Oct 27 1st commemoration of Navy Day (USA)
- Oct 27 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws
- Oct 27 In Italy, Liberal Prime Minister Luigi Facta resigns after King Victor Emmanuel refuses request to declare martial law in the face of threats from Mussolini that "either the Government will be given to us or we will seize it by marching on Rome"
- Oct 28 30, 000 Italian fascists conduct the 'March on Rome', leading to the assumption of power by Benito Mussolini
- Oct 28 First US coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
- Oct 29 Italian King Victor Emmanuell III appoints Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) as Prime Minister of Italy
- Oct 30 Anxious to compete with the Yankees, the NY Giants pay $65,000 & 3 players for Jack Bentley (hit .349 & was 13-2 as pitcher for Baltimore (International League) in 1922)
- Oct 30 Benito Mussolini forms government in Italy
- Oct 31 Fascist leader Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes Prime Minister of Italy
- Oct 31 Karel & Josef Čapek's play "World We Live In" premieres in NYC
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 2 Otmar Macha, Czech composer (Quattro Group), born in Ostrava (d. 2006)
- Oct 3 Marcel van Thienen, French composer, born in Fontenay-sous-Bois, France (d. 1998)
- Oct 4 Malcolm Baldrige, American businessman and US Secretary of Commerce (1981-87), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1987)
- Oct 5 Bil Keane, American cartoonist (The Family Circus), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2011)
- Oct 5 Jock Stein, Scottish soccer manager (Dunfermline Athletic, Hibernian, Scotland [1965, 78-85], Celtic, Leeds United), born in Burnbank, Scotland (d. 1985)
- Oct 5 José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver, born in Arrecifes, Argentina (d. 2013)
- Oct 6 Joe Frazier, American baseball outfielder (Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles) and manager (NY Mets 1976–77), born in Liberty, North Carolina (d. 2011)
- Oct 7 Grady Hatton, American baseball player, (d. 2013)
- Oct 7 Martha Stewart [Haworth], American actress (In A Lonely Place; Daisy Kenyon: Doll Face), born in Bardwell, Kentucky (d. 2021)
- Oct 7 Reina Prinsen Geerligs, Dutch aspiring poet who became an anti-fascist resistance fighter, born in Semarang, Dutch East Indies (d. 1943)
- Oct 8 Douglas Gray, Scottish record and film producer, born in Aberdeen (d. 1997)
- Oct 8 Svend Westergaard, Danish composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1988)
- Oct 9 Philip "Fyvush" Finkel, American actor (Boston Public, Picket Fences), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2016)
- Oct 9 Raymond Wilding-White, American composer, born in Caterham, Tandridge, Surrey, England (d. 2001)
- Oct 10 Boeli van Leeuwen, Antillian writer (Vreemdeling Op Aarde), born in Curaçao (d. 2007)
- Oct 10 Harry Cave, New Zealand cricketer (NZ bowler & Test captain in the 1950's), born in Whanganui, New Zealand (d. 1989)
- Oct 10 Merv Pregulman, American NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers), born in Lansing, Michigan (d. 2012)
- Oct 13 Alan Scott, American lyricist (Candid Camera theme), writer, TV host (Spin the Picture), and actor, born in Haddonfield, New Jersey (d. 2021)
- Oct 13 Gilberto Mendes, Brazilian classical and avant-garde composer, born in Santos, Brazil (d. 2016)
- Oct 15 Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese writer (A Sibila), born in Vila Mea, Portugal (d. 2019)
- Oct 15 Lorraine Gordon [Stein], American jazz music advocate and owner of Village Vanguard jazz club, born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2018)
- Oct 15 Tommy Edwards, American R&B singer-songwriter ("It's All In The Game"), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1969)
- Oct 16 Max Bygraves [Walter William Bygraves], British actor (Charley Moon, Spare the Rod, Tom Brown's School Days), born in London (d. 2012)
- Oct 16 Robert Urquhart, Scottish actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed, Dark Avenger), born in Ullapool, Scotland (d. 1995)
- Oct 17 Louis Benjamin, British showman, organized Royal Variety performances, born in London, England (d. 1994)
- Oct 17 Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (Black Orpheus), born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (d. 2001)
- Oct 17 Pierre Juneau, Canadian film and broadcast executive, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2012)
- Oct 18 Camillo Togni, Italian pianist and composer, born in Gussago, Italy (d. 1993)
- Oct 18 Richard Stankiewicz, American sculptor (1974 Akston Award, 1966 Brandeis) (d. 1983)
- Oct 19 Jack Anderson, American journalist (Washington Post), born in Long Beach, California (d. 1922)
- Oct 20 John Anderson, American actor (Psycho, Ride the High Country, Legend of Wyatt Earp), born in Clayton, Illinois (d. 1992)
- Oct 21 Liliane de Bettencourt, French heir to L'Oreal and richest woman in the world from 2016, born in Paris, France (d. 2017)
- Oct 22 Antonius "Ton" Lensink, Dutch actor (Rituelen), born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (d. 1997)
- Oct 22 Johan Hendrik Weidner, Dutch-American war hero (set up WWII underground network to smuggle people out of Nazi territory), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1994)
- Oct 22 John Chafee, American politician (Senator-R-Rhode Island, 1976-99, Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Rhode Island), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 1999)
- Oct 22 Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine soccer forward (Boca Juniors, Sampdoria, Atlético Madrid) and manager (Argentina, Boca Juniors, Lazio, Roma), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 2001)
- Oct 22 Thomas Titus Nkobi, South African ANC-leader (Alexandra-bus boycott 1957), born in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe (d. 1994)
- Oct 23 Coleen Gray [Doris Bernice Jensen], American actress (Apache Drums, The Killing), born in Staplehurst, Nebraska (d. 2015)
- Oct 23 Stuart Sloan, British war hero and pilot, born in Whitecraig, Scotland (d. 1994)
- Oct 27 Carlos Andrés Pérez, President of Venezuela (1974-79, 89-94), born in Rubio, Venezuela (d. 2010)
- Oct 27 George Young, Scottish soccer defender (54 caps; Rangers 293 games), born in Grangemouth, Scotland (d. 1997)
- Oct 27 Poul Bundgaard, Danish comic actor (Olsen-banden films) and operetta singer (Royal Danish Theatre, 1958-73), born in Hellerup, Denmark (d. 1998)
- Oct 27 Ralph Kiner, American Baseball HOF left fielder (NL HR leader 1946–52; 6×MLB All-Star; Pittsburgh Pirates) and sportscaster (NY Mets), born in Santa Rita, New Mexico (d. 2014)
- Oct 27 Ruby Dee (née Wallace), American Emmy Award-winning stage and screen actress (A Raisin in the Sun; American Gangster), poet, and civil rights activist, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2014)
- Oct 28 Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball player and coach, born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey (d. 2007)
- Oct 28 Gershon Kingsley [Götz Ksinski], German-American composer, electronic music pioneer, and Moog synthesizer player (Popcorn), born in Bochum, Weimar Republic (d. 2019)
- Oct 28 Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwean politician (1st Vice-President of Zimbabwe), born in Gutu district, Southern Rhodesia (d. 2003)
- Oct 29 Neal Hefti, American jazz trumpeter, arranger (Woody Herman; Count Basie); bandleader (Kate Smith Show) and composer ("Li'l Darlin"; The Odd Couple; Batman theme), born in Hastings, Nebraska (d. 2008)
- Oct 29 Neil Blaney, Irish politician, born in Fanad, County Donegal, Ireland (d. 1995)
- Oct 30 Dickie Henderson, British comic and actor, born in London, England (d. 1985)
- Oct 30 Jane White, African-American actress and singer (Strange Fruit, Once Upon a Mattress), born in New York City (d. 2011)
- Oct 31 (Jean-Baptiste) Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist ("Flying Home"), born in Broussard, Louisiana (d. 2004)
- Oct 31 Anatoli Papanov, Russian actor (Cold Summer of 1953) named as a People's Artist of the USSR (1973), born in Vyazma, Russia (d. 1987)
- Oct 31 Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (Vertigo, Dallas, Caught), born in New York City (d. 2005)
Norodom Sihanouk (1922-2012)
Oct 31 King of Cambodia (1941-55 and 1993-2004), Chief of State (1960-70), independence campaigner and film producer, born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Oct 31 Talfryn Thomas, Welsh character actor (Dad's Army -"Cheeseman"; Dr. Who), born in Swansea, Wales (d. 1982)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 1 Nikolay Vladimirovich Scherbachov, Russian pianist and composer, dies at 63
- Oct 7 Marie Lloyd [Mathilda Wood], English music-hall performer ("Oh Mr Porter What Shall I Do"), dies of heart and kidney failure at 52
- Oct 12 Margriet Baers, Flemish social worker, feminist, and philosopher, dies at 33
- Oct 24 George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (Cadbury), dies at 83
- Oct 25 Oskar Hertwig, German embryologist (discovered fertilization), dies at 73
- Oct 28 Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer and poet (Flemish Motion), dies at 81
- Oct 29 Georg August Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (Tivoli Concert Hall Orchestra, 1891-97), dies at 79
