October 1910 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1910 Explosion at LA Times kills 21
• 02 Oct 1910 Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record)
• 04 Oct 1910 Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England.
• 05 Oct 1910 Portugal overthrows its monarchy and declares itself a republic.
• 06 Oct 1910 Braves beat Philadelphia Phillies 20-7.
• 11 Oct 1910 Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
• 14 Oct 1910 The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C..
• 15 Oct 1910 Airship America launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
• 18 Oct 1910 Edward Forster publishes Howards End
• 20 Oct 1910 Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar
• 22 Oct 1910 Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
• 23 Oct 1910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
• 29 Oct 1910 Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game.

Famous Birthday

• Bonnie Parker

  Outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush.

• Aurélie Nemours
• Hans Geisler

  German pro astrologer and occultist, a journalist and author.

• John Wooden

  Basketball coach (UCLA-10 national championships).

• Andrée Bordeaux-Lepecq
• Paulette Dubost

  French actress and centenarian, who appeared in over 250 films and worked with such directors as Marcel Carné, Jean Renoir, Max Ophüls ("Le...

• Barbara Castle

  British politician and Member of the House of Commons 1945-1979, called the "Margaret Thatcher of the Labour Party.

• Paul Robert

  French lexicographer and publisher (d. 1980).

• Pierre Chigot
• Kirk Alyn

  American actor, a former Broadway chorus boy and vaudeville entertainer when he was cast in the role of the first "Superman," 1948.

• Jack Carson

  Manitoba, Canada -- Actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce).

• Jacques Sallebert
• Attilio Pavesi

  Italian bicyclist, the winner of the Gold Medal at the Olympics in Los Angeles in 1932.

• Maurice Zermatten
• John Krol

  American Ecclesiastic, a Roman Catholic Cardinal who was a leading conservative who spoke out for nuclear disarmament and helped revamp the...

• Tex McCrary
• Art[hur] Tatum

  US jazz pianist / composer.

• Miguel Hernadez Gilabert

  Spain -- Poet (Viento del Pueblo).

• William Leonard Reed

  Composer.

• Alfred J Ayer

  England, United Kingdom -- Neopositivist philosopher / logician.

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Famous Deaths

• William V Moody

  US Poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide).

• J Henri Dunant

  Swiss writer / founder (Red Cross, YMCA).

• David B Hill

  Governor of New York (Born 1843).

• Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel heavyweight boxing champ

  shot and killed.

• Julia Ward Howe composer (Battle Hymn of the Republic)

  dies at age 91.

• Stanley Ketchel

  American boxer (Born 1886).

• Willie Anderson

  American basketball player, a one-time guard/forward for the Miami Heat.

• Henry Dunant

  French-Swiss founder of the International Red Cross, a leader who inspired and organized the founding.

• Willem Maris

  Dutch artist, impressionistic landscape painter of the Hague School and third of three brothers who were all noted painters.

• Chulalongkorn

  King of Thailand (Born 1853).

• Sergey Muromtsev

  Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (Born 1850).

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1. Jack Norworth - Back to My Old Home Town
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3. Peerless Quartet - Big Bass Viol
4. Frank Stanley & Byron G. Harlan - Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!
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