October 1907 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1907 Plaza Hotel (5th Av & 59th Str, NY) opens
• 05 Oct 1907 Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays first game (Montreal 17 Toronto 8).
• 09 Oct 1907 Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
• 12 Oct 1907 Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 0 with 1 tie in 4th World Series
• 16 Oct 1907 Belasco Theater opens at 111 W 44th St, New York City
• 17 Oct 1907 Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
• 18 Oct 1907 Hague Convention revised by (second) Hague Peace Conference (effective 26 January 1910).
• 19 Oct 1907 1st printing of Dutch Tribune
• 22 Oct 1907 Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum and Bailey circus
• 25 Oct 1907 Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden
• 27 Oct 1907 Černová tragedy: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a Catholic church in Hungary.

Famous Birthday

• Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour

  French lawyer and nationalist politician.

• Edwige Feuillère

  French stage/film/tv actress, director, producer, 2 yr marriage to stage actor pierre feuillere, married once.

• Yves Allégret
• Jacques Tati

  French actor, writer and director.

• Alain Daniélou

  French-Swiss historian and academic (d. 1994).

• Horst Wessel

  German Nazi activist who was made a posthumous hero of the Nazi movement following his violent death in 1930.

• Jules Roy

  French writer.

• Roger Vailland

  French author (La Novice, Et Mourir de Plasir).

• Arlene Francis

  American actress and TV personality seen for 25 years on the game show "What's My Line?" Warm, talented and elegant, she hosted "The Arlene...

• Marcel Barbu

  French politician.

• Helen MacInnes

  Scottish-American writer, the author of 21 novels of international espionage that included "Above Suspicion" and "Ride a Pale Horse.

• Alexander Todd

  Scottish biochemist whose research prepared the way for DNA analysis and was recognized with the 1957 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

• Barbara H Watters
• Jeff Musso
• Didier Racaud
• Karl Robin Bendetsen
• Jimmie Foxx

  American baseball player coach and manager (d. 1967).

• Barend Barendse

  Dutch sports reporter.

• Moises F da Costa Gomez

  Premier Dutch Antilles.

• John "Cardinal" Dearden

  US Cardinal (1969-88) / Archbishop of Detroit.

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Famous Deaths

• Alfred Reisenauer

  Composer, dies at 43.

• Alfredo Kiel

  Composer, dies at 57.

• Romualdo Marenco

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Edmund Hart Turpin

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Said Pasha Kurd

  Kurdish statesman (Born 1834).

• Alfred

  British royalty, Queen Victoria's fourth child, the Duke of Edinburgh and later Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha.

• Jules Chevalier

  French priest founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (d. 1907).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Victor Orchestra - Merry Widow Waltz
2. Harry Tally - Take Me Back to New York Town
3. Albert Campbell - Dreaming
4. Harry Macdonough - Dreaming
5. Alice Nielsen & Florencio Constantino - Rigoletto - E Il Sol Dell Prima (Love is the Sun)