October 1906 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1906 Hugh Jennings resigns as Baltimore Manager to take over at Detroit in 1907
• 02 Oct 1906 Tommy Burns KOs Jim Burns in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
• 03 Oct 1906 SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy
• 04 Oct 1906 Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36) of the year.
• 06 Oct 1906 The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
• 11 Oct 1906 White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game
• 14 Oct 1906 All Chicago World Series, 1st AL victory, White Sox win 4 games to 2 Cubs losers share of $439.50 is lowest for World Series
• 16 Oct 1906 Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer and takes over the city hall in Köpenick for a short time.
• 19 Oct 1906 Georges Chemenceau succeeds Sarien Premier of France
• 20 Oct 1906 Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube
• 22 Oct 1906 3000 blacks demonstrate and riot in Philadelphia.
• 25 Oct 1906 US inventor Lee de Forest patents Audion, a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting
• 28 Oct 1906 Belgian-British Union Minstry of Haut-Katanga begins

Famous Birthday

• Lillian Asplund
• Dino Buzzati

  Italian journalist, dramatist and novelist called, "an Italian Kafka.

• Hannah Arendt

  German-American philosopher , political thinker and writer.

• Primo Carnera

  Italian boxer and actor (d. 1967).

• Hermann Fegelein

  German military, a Nazi SS General married to Hitler's sister Gretl.

• Léopold Sédar Senghor
• August Lösch
• Saïd Boualam
• Gertrude Ederle

  American athlete and Olympic gold medalist; the first woman to swim the English Channel, breaking the time record of the fastest man by one...

• Janet Gaynor

  American actress who made 34 films from 1926-1938 including "A Star is Born," 1937.

• Piero Taruffi

  Italian race car driver in the Formula One series.

• Kazuo Ohno

  Japanese dancer and educator (d. 2010).

• Lita Recio
• Anderl Heckmair
• Fredric Brown

  American science fiction and mystery writer (d. 1972).

• Willy Ley

  German-born rocket scientist (Born 1906).

• Lord James Leechman
• Robert Vattier

  French actor.

• Raymond Triboulet

  French politician.

• Giuseppe Farina

  Italian race car driver (d. 1966).

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Famous Deaths

• [Georgette A] Helena Amelung

  Actress (Small Lord), dies at 55.

• Joseph F Glidden

  Inventor (barbed wire).

• William "Buck" Ewing hall of fame catcher (New York Giants)

  dies at age 67.

• Honore Beaugrand

  Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (Born 1848).

• Paul Cezanne

  French painter (Born 1839).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Len Spencer & Ada Jones - Peaches and Cream
2. James McCool - There Never was a Girl Like You
3. Albert Campbell - Love Me and the World is Mine
4. Arthur Collins - I Don't KNow Where I'm Goin', but I'm on My Way
5. DeWolf Hopper - Casey at the Bat