October 1909 calendar

Events

• 02 Oct 1909 1st rugby match
• 08 Oct 1909 Chicago Cubs beat New York Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win National League pennant.
• 09 Oct 1909 Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game
• 13 Oct 1909 An agreement by Germany, Italy and Switzerland gives the Germans and Italians access to the Gotthard Rail Tunnel.
• 14 Oct 1909 Pirates beat Tigers, 5-4, forces 1st full 7 game world series
• 16 Oct 1909 Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
• 18 Oct 1909 Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m.
• 26 Oct 1909 Ito Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, was shot to death by Korean independence supporter Ahn Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.

Famous Birthday

• Francis Bacon (artist)
• Art Tatum

  American jazz piano soloist who studied piano, guitar, violin and accordion.

• Jean Le Moal

  French painter of the new Paris school, designer of stained glass windows, and one of the founder members of the Salon de Mai.

• François Tanguy-Prigent
• Bernd Rosemeyer

  German race car driver, killed in a driving accident 1/28/1938, 11:50 AM, Frankfurt, Germany.

• Alain Assailly

  French physician, a specialist in neuroendoctrine disorders.

• Jean Sauvage
• Carolyn Wyeth

  American artist and noted family, the daughter of illustrator N.C.

• Norberto Bobbio

  Italian philosopher and legal theorist (d. 2004).

• Sam Yorty

  American politician, lawyer, member of the State Assembly and Mayor of Los Angeles.

• Robert Beatty

  Canadian-British actor who appeared in many films and television series.

• Albert Michel (actor)
• Germaine Montero
• Jean-Paul Le Chanois
• Pierre George
• Thierry Maulnier

  French journalist, essayist, dramatist, and literary critic, married once.

• Basile Tesselin
• Cozy Cole

  American drummer (d. 1981).

• Philleo Nash

  American anthropologist, government official and the 33rd Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1959–1961 as a Democrat.

• Fernand Bouxom
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Famous Deaths

• Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Nicola Spinelli

  Composer, dies at 44.

• Alfredo Oriani

  Italian writer (La rivolta ideal).

• Horiboemi Ito

  Prince of Japan, assassinated by a Korean.

• Francisco Ferrer Guardia

  Spanish free-thinker (Born 1849).

• Jakub Bart-Cisinski

  Sorbian writer (Born 1856).

• Hirobumi Ito

  Japanese Prime Minister (Born 1841).

• Cesare Lombroso

  Italian criminologist, physician, and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology.

• Dudley Buck

  American organist and composer (d. 1909).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ada Jones & Billy Murray - I'm Awfully Glad I Met You
2. Ada Jones - My Pony Boy
3. Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet - Take Me Out for a Joy Ride
4. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - My Wife's Gone to the Country (Hurrah! Hurrah!)
5. Blanche Ring - I've Got Rings on My Fingers