Today in History for October 1915

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 25 of 25

3rd - 7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley Nevada
4th - Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established
5th - Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
7th - Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record)
8th - Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British & Germans killed
8th - Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating
8th - Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
9th - Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders
9th - Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, NY
9th - Louis Kaufmans "Unchastened Woman," premieres in NYC
9th - Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st pres to attend a World Series game
11th - Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins
12th - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile
12th - Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citzens who identify themselves, with dual nationalities
13th - Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series
16th - Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria
18th - 3rd Italians offensive at Isonzo
19th - Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria
21st - 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris
26th US President Theodore Roosevelt 23rd - 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
23rd - 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
25th - Atty James L Curtis named minister of Liberia
28th - Richard Strauss' Alpensymfonie, premieres in Berlin
29th - Aristide Briand becomes premier of France
29th - Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 32 of 32

2nd - Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise, musician
3rd - Ray Stark, American film producer (d. 2004)
4th - Koos Schuur, Dutch journalist/poet (7 Curses)
6th - Edgardo Martin, composer
6th - Harry van Doorn, [Henri W], CRM minister/Dutch politician (KVP/PPR)
6th - Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (d. 2007)
7th - Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja) [NS]
7th - Roman Padlewski, composer
9th - Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture
13th - Cornel Wilde, NYC, actor (High Sierra, 5th Musketeer)
13th - Terry Frost, English artist (d. 2003)
15th - W Weyrauch, writer
15th - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician (Prime Minister 1983–84, 1986–1992, (d. 2012)
17th - Arthur Miller, NYC, playwright (Death of a Salesman, Crucible), (d. 2005)
18th - Victor Sen Yung, SF California, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family)
19th - Farid al-Atrash, Syrian composer, musician, and actor (d. 1974)
20th - Giora Schuster, composer
22nd - Harry Hickox, Big Springs Tx, (Herb-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
24th - Jean Vallerand, composer
Playwright Arthur Miller (17th) 24th - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (Figaro-Barber of Seville)
24th - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
24th - Roger Milliken, American millionaire
24th - Marghanita Laski, British Journalist and Novelist(d. 1988)
25th - Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician (d. 1999)
26th - Golfredo Corradetti, conductor
26th - Joe Fry, British racing driver (d. 1950)
27th - Harry Saltzman, St Johns NB Canada, producer (Goldfinger)
28th - Dody Goodman, Columbus Ohio, comedienne (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan)
28th - Richard Michael Fraser, political Administrator
29th - Dennis Brookes, cricketer (one Test England v WI 1948, scored 10 & 7)
30th - Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer (Capitaine Bruno)
30th - Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

17th - American born poet (The Waste Land) T. S (Thomas Sterns) Eliot (27) marries 1st wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood (27)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 10 of 10

2nd - Russell Alexander, composer, dies at 38
5th - Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer, dies at 28
5th - Otto Valdemar Malling, composer, dies at 67
7th - Samuel Prowse Warren, composer, dies at 74
9th - Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73
12th - Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II)
23rd - W G Grace, British cricketer, dies
24th - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828)
30th - Gervys Rignold Hazlitt, cricketer (9 Tests for Aust 1907-12), dies
30th - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)