October 1916 calendar

Events

• 02 Oct 1916 San Diego Zoo founded
• 05 Oct 1916 Soldier Adolf Hitler is injured
• 07 Oct 1916 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
• 09 Oct 1916 Babe Ruth pitches and wins longest World Series game (14 innings) 2-1.
• 10 Oct 1916 In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3
• 12 Oct 1916 Boston Red Sox beat Brooklyn Dodgers, four games to one in 13th World Series.
• 14 Oct 1916 Perm State University is founded in Russia.
• 16 Oct 1916 Dodger manager Wilbert Robinson given $5,000 bonus
• 17 Oct 1916 Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage
• 21 Oct 1916 US Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps
• 24 Oct 1916 Moroccan troops capture Ft Douaumont
• 26 Oct 1916 Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control).

Famous Birthday

• François Mitterrand

  French politician whose career spanned half a century and culminated in the presidency of France when he replaced Valery Giscard de’Estaing...

• José Charlet

  French artist, an architect and painter.

• Jean d'Orléans-Bragance
• André Pierrard
• Marcel Lefrancq
• Jean Dausset

  French scientist; physician who shared the Nobel Prize with two others for their work on antigens, 1980.

• Anthony Dawson
• C Everett Koop

  13th United States Surgeon General.

• Ulysses Guimaraes

  Brazilian MP (chairman), dies in accident.

• Emil Gilels

  Soviet pianist.

• David Gascoyne
• Vitaly Ginzburg

  Russian physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009).

• Andrea Checchi

  Italian screen/stage/tv actor, artist, painter, onscreen 1933; leading man of italians films for 3 decades; active on italian tv during his...

• Spark Matsunaga

  American politician.

• George Sidney

  American director and producer (d. 2002).

• David Lewis

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- Actor (Edward Quartermaine- General Hospital).

• Michael F Howard

  British Major General (Gold Stick to the Queen).

• Tomojiro Ikenouchi

  Composer.

• Walt W Rostow

  NYC, New York -- Economist (Politics & Stages of Growth).

• Toby Rowland

  Theatrical manager.

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Famous Deaths

• Benjamin Kidel

  English sociologist (Social Evolution), dies at 58.

• Silas Gamaliel Pratt

  Composer, dies at 70.

• John Sebastian Little

  American politician and congressman (Born 1851).

• Oswald Boelcke

  German captain and pilot (d. 1916).

• Cleveland Abbe

  American meteorologist and academic (d. 1916).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Fritz Kreisler - The Old Refrain
2. John McCormack - Tales of Hoffman: Barcolle (Belle Nuit - Oh Night of Love
3. Peerless Quartet - Welcome, Honey, to Your Old Plantation Home
4. Conway's Band - Have a Heart - Ziegfeld Follies of 1915 Medley
5. Olive Kline & Lambert Murphy - Have a Heart