Today in History for October 1895
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 10 of 10
1st - Romanians in Costantinople massacred
2nd - 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper
4th - 1st US Golf Open: Horace Rawlins shoots a 173 at Newport GC RI
4th - Horace Rawlins wins 1st US Open golf tournament (Newport RI)
5th - The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
8th - Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms
11th - Emperor Menelik II of Addis Ababa draws against Italians
21st - The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
22nd - David Belasco's "Heart of Maryland," premieres in NYC
22nd - In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 34 of 34
1st - Liaquat Al Khan, attorney/premier of Pakistan (1947-51)
2nd - Bud Abbott, Asbury Pk NJ, comedian (Abbott & Costello)
2nd - Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian
3rd - Kurt Schumacher, co-founder/president West German SDP [OS]
4th - Buster [Joseph F] Keaton, actor (Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr)
4th - Hattie McDaniel, actress (Gone With the Wind-academy award)
4th - Richard Sorge, German spy for USSR in Tokyo (WW II)
4th - Sergei Jessenin, writer
5th - Walter Bedell Smith, US general (WW II)/head of CIA (1950-52)
6th - Caroline Gordon, Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries)
8th - Jeanne G van Schaik-Willing, Dutch author (Sinner & the Girl)
8th - Juan Peron, Argentine Pres (1946-55, 1973-74)
8th - King Zog I, of Albania (1928-1939)
10th - Johnny Taylor, cricketer (stalwart Aussie batsman of post-WW I days)
10th - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935)
10th - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
11th - H Schiebelhuth, writer
13th - Kurt Schumacher, German politicial chairman (SPD) [NS]
13th - Vera [A Veronica] Bondam, actress
13th - Mike Gazella, American baseball player (d. 1978)
15th - Alfred Neumann, German playwright (Devil)
17th - Doris Humphrey, Oak Park Ill, dancer (Dances of Women)
18th - Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Appearance at Kallista)
19th - Louis Mumford, cultural historian/city planner/writer
19th - Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d.1999)
20th - Rex Ingram, US actor (Tarzan of the Apes, 10 Commandments)
21st - Alexander d'Arbeloff, entrepreneur
21st - Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer
25th - Levi Eshkol, [Sjkolnik], Israeli PM (MWP) (1963-69)
27th - John Boles, Greenville TX, singer/actor (Babes in Baghdad)
30th - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964)
30th - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
31st - Basil H Liddell Heart, English military historian/publicist
31st - C K Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C S, India's 1st Test capt)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 3 of 3
8th - Charles Oberthur, composer, dies at 76
25th - Charles Halle, British pianist, dies
31st - Franz Hedrich, Austria writer, dies at about 62
