Today in History for October 1910

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 19 of 19

1st - Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair)
1st - Explosion at LA Times kills 21
1st - Regina Rugby Club's 1st game, losing to Moose Jaw Tigers, 16-6
2nd - 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
2nd - Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record)
4th - Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England
4th - Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda.
5th - Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic
6th - Braves beat Phillies 20-7
9th - Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won
18th - Edward Forster publishes "Howards End"
20th - 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series
20th - Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar
20th - The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland.
22nd - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
23rd - Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
23rd - Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series
23rd - Ritz Hotel in Madrid opens: 200 chambers/100 bathtubs
29th - Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 38 of 38

1st - Fritz Köberle, Austrian-born physician (d. 1983)
1st - José Enrique Moyal, Australian mathematical physicist (d. 1998)
1st - Bonnie Parker, Rowena, Texas, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), (d. 1934)
4th - Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
6th - Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)
7th - Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986)
8th - Raymod Gray Lewis, Ontario Canada, 4X400 relayer (Olympic-bronze-1932)
8th - Kirk Alyn, American actor (d. 1999)
8th - Gus Hall, American union organizer and head of the U.S. Communist Party (d. 2000)
9th - Donald Coggan, English archbishop of York/Canterbury (Glory of God)
9th - Phil Hanna, River Forest Ill, singer (Once Upon a Tune)
10th - Alan Frank, music publisher
10th - Milton "Tippy" Larkin, band leader
10th - Price Daniel, (Gov/Sen-D-Texas)
11th - Eugene John Weigel, composer
11th - Francis James Claude Piggott, soldier
11th - Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist (Men Around the President)
12th - Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (d. 1985)
12th - Bob Sheppard, American baseball announcer
American Outlaw Bonnie Parker (1st) 13th - Art[hur] Tatum, US jazz pianist/composer
13th - Otto Joachim, composer
14th - Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader
14th - John Wooden, basketball coach (UCLA-10 national championships)
15th - Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer (South African leg-spinner of 30's)
16th - William Leonard Reed, composer
18th - Albertus "Bert" Botterman, actor (Bridge Too Far)
18th - Vojislav Vuckovic, composer
19th - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, India, astrophysicist (Nobel 1983)
23rd - Hayden Rorke, Bkln NY, actor (Dr Bellows-I Dream of Jeannie)
23rd - Sally O'Neil, Bayonne NJ, actress (Beggar's Holiday, Moth)
25th - William Higinbotham, American physicist (d. 1994)
26th - John "Cardinal" Krol, former archbishop (Philadelphia)
27th - Fred de Cordova, film/TV producer (Tonight Show)
27th - Jack Carson, Manitoba Canada, actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce)
28th - Arthur Altman, songwriter
28th - Marie Dollinger, Germany, dropped bataan in 1936 Olympic sprint
29th - Alfred J Ayer, England, Neopositivist philosopher/logician
30th - Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spain, poet (Viento del Pueblo)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 8 of 8

4th - Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (b. 1850)
10th - Willem Maris, painter (Hague School), dies at 66
15th - Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, heavy weight boxing champ, shot & killed
17th - Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91
17th - William V Moody, US poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies
20th - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843)
23rd - Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (b. 1853)
30th - J Henri Dunant, Swiss writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA), dies