October 1919 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1919 World Series #16 begins as a best of 9 affair, Chicago White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (The Black Sox Scandal).
• 02 Oct 1919 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
• 03 Oct 1919 Reds Adolfo Luque is 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series
• 05 Oct 1919 Norwegian population agrees to prohibition
• 06 Oct 1919 Stambuliski becomes Premier of Bulgaria
• 07 Oct 1919 KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
• 10 Oct 1919 Richard Strauss and Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna
• 13 Oct 1919 Race riot at Elaine Arkansas.
• 17 Oct 1919 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created.
• 26 Oct 1919 B C Hilliams musical Buddies, premieres in New York City
• 27 Oct 1919 US Congress sign Volstead Act
• 28 Oct 1919 The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
• 30 Oct 1919 Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of the spitball.

Famous Birthday

• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
• Jean Lefebvre

  French-Moroccan actor (d. 2004).

• Pierre Elliott Trudeau
• Ashraf Pahlavi

  Iranian royalty, the twin-sister of the Shah of Iran.

• Doris Lessing

  British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer.

• André Pousse

  French actor and, in his youth, also a notable cyclist.

• José Hermano Saraiva
• René Haby

  French politician.

• André Valmy
• Françoise Parturier

  French writer and journalist.

• Maurice-René Simonnet
• José-André Lacour
• Donald Pleasence

  English actor and singer (d. 1995).

• Anita O'Day

  American singer, a dazzling jazz performer for 56 years as of 1990.

• Félix Marten

  French actor, director and singer.

• Claire Mafféi
• Barthélémy Amengual
• François Missoffe

  French industrialist and politician, the French ambassador to Japan from 1964-1966, and the Minister of Youth and Sports until the time of...

• Gabriel Péronnet
• Irmgard Seefried

  German-Austrian soprano who made her operatic debut in "Aida" in Aachen, 1940.

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Famous Deaths

• Daniel Brink Towner

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Jean Louis Nicode

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Wilhelm von Siemens

  German industrial / Son of Werner.

• Charles Harford Lloyd

  Composer, dies on 70th birthday.

• Sven August Korling

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Bruce F Cummings

  English Author (Enjoying Life), dies at 30.

• Soen Shaku

  Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, dies at 60.

• Princess Charlotte

  of Prussia (Born 1860).

• Alfred Deakin

  Australian politician, P.M.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Al Bernard & Ernest Hare - I Want to Hold You in My Arms
2. Irving Kaufman - Take Your Girlie to the Movies (If You Can't Make Love At Home)
3. Cal Stewart & Ada Jones - Uncle Josh and Aunt Nancy Put Up the Kitchen Stove
4. Ben Selvin & His Orchestra - I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
5. Vivian Holt & Lillian Rosedale - My Swanee Home