October 1908 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1908 1st Dutch electric railway in use
• 02 Oct 1908 Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row.
• 03 Oct 1908 The Pravda newspaper is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
• 05 Oct 1908 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar
• 06 Oct 1908 Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant
• 07 Oct 1908 Serbia and Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact.
• 08 Oct 1908 New York Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)
• 14 Oct 1908 Baseball Writers Association of America, forms
• 16 Oct 1908 Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as Esquimoux
• 20 Oct 1908 King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium
• 24 Oct 1908 Billy Murray hits the charts with Take Me Outto the Ball Game
• 31 Oct 1908 4th Olympic games ends in London

Famous Birthday

• Lee Krasner

  American painter (d. 1984).

• Carole Lombard

  American actress.

• Marcel Béalu

  French writer raised in impoverished circumstances in Saumur.

• Pierre Dux
• John Kenneth Galbraith

  Economist (Affluent Society-58 Hillman Award).

• Gustav Blank

  German dancer, teacher and ballet master.

• Sallie Nichols

  American Jungian author of a book on the Tarot.

• Jorge Oteiza
• Joshua Logan

  American producer, director and author of many Broadway shows.

• Frieda Hunziker
• Edmond Pidoux

  Swiss author and poet (d. 2004).

• Robley C Williams
• Lee Wiley

  American jazz singer (Born 1908).

• Cartola
• Stewart Myles MacPherson

  Broadcaster.

• Helmut Gollwitzer

  German theologist / antifascist.

• Armen Carapetyan

  Composer.

• Franco Margola

  Composer.

• John Alwyne Kitching

  Zoologist.

• David Alexander Reginald Herbert

  Writer.

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Famous Deaths

• Joseph Leycester Lyne (Father Ignatius)

  a restorer of monastic life in the Church of England (Born 1837).

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Eddie Morton - The Right Church, but the Wrong Pew
2. Frank Stanley - Any Old Port in a Storm
3. Eddie Morton - Don't Take Me Home
4. Edward Meeker - Take Me Out to the Ball Game
5. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - Down in Jungle Town