Page 4: Historical Events In October - 02

1873  Cornelius Varley, water-color painter, dies   

1875  Henry Fevrier, composer   

1878  Francois C Schlumberger, French physicist   

1879  Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG)   

1879  Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual" (BG)   

1879  Wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order).   

1880  George Alexander Russell, composer   

1881  Fred Barlow, composer   

1885  Ruth Bryan Rohde, US, (Rep), minister to Denmark.   

1886  Pieter "Pierre" Balledux, stage manager/Dutch resistance fighter   

1889  inaugural Pan American conference (Washington DC).   

1889  1st Pan American conference (Washington DC).   

1890  Groucho Marx, [Julius], NYC, comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life)   

1891  H V Porter, basketball pioneer, created fan shape backboard.   

1893  Leroy B Shield, US pianist/producer/composer (Laurel and Hardy).   

1895  1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper   

1895  Bud Abbott, Asbury Pk NJ, comedian (Abbott and Costello).   

1896  Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga) [OS=Sep 20]   

1899  Orange Free state mobilizes.   

1900  Belg crown prince Albert von Saksen-Coburg weds Elisabeth of Bayern.   

1901  inaugural submarine commissioned by the British Navy is launched from Barrow, north-west England.   

1901  1st Royal Naval submarine launched at Barrow.   

1901  Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot   

1902  Dick Ket, Dutch painter/cartoonist   

1904  Graham Greene, English novelist is born.   

1904  Dermot Boyle, marshal (RAF).   

1905  Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuban/French sonnet poet, dies at 62.   

1906  Tommy Burns KOs Jim Burns in 15 for heavyweight boxing title   

1906  John Humphreys Whitfield, scholar of Italian language and literature   

1907  Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader vs Giants   

1907  Alexander Robertus, organic chemist.   

1908  Addie Joss perfect game formally ends Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row   

1909  1st rugby match (Twickenham)   

1910  inaugural 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy).   

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1452  King richard iii: Of england (1483-85)   

1470  Isabella of naples: Duchess of milan   

1538  Saint charles borromeo: Italian cardinal   

1595  Jacob louys: Flemish engraver   

1616  A gryphius: Writer   

1644  François-timoléon de choisy: French writer   

1646  Guillaume poitevin: Composer   

1704  Frantisek ignac antonin tuma: Composer   

0472  Death of Olybrius: Emperor of westromeinse republic (472),   

0939  Giselbert: Duke of lutheran, drowns at about 49   

1113  Death of Mawdoed: Selchuk emir/governor of mosul,   

1264  Death of Urbanus iv: [jacques pantaleon], french pope (1261-64),   

1517  Death of John murmelius: Humanist/theory/school book writer,   

1559  Death of Jacquet of mantua: French composer (b. 1483)   

1564  Andreas vesalius: [andries of wesel], flemish anatomist,   

1588  Bernardino telesio: Italian philosopher (rerum in child),