Page 4: Historical Events In October - 08

1890  Cyril Rutherford "Snuffy" Browne, cricketer (pioneer WI Test player).   

1892  Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow   

1895  Juan Peron, Argentine general, and former President is born   

1895  Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms.   

1895  Jeanne G van Schaik-Willing, Dutch author (Sinner and the Girl).   

1895  Charles Oberthur, composer, dies at 76   

1896  In this year, Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks   

1896  In this year, Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks   

1897  Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera   

1897  Rouben Mamoulian, movie director/author (Mark of Zorro, Applause)   

1897  Martin Pluddemann, composer, dies at 43   

1898  1st Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2.   

1898  Clarence Williams, composer   

1899  Milner Connorton Gray, designer   

1900  Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect   

1901  Eivind Groven, composer   

1903  J M Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen," premieres in Dublin   

1903  Lina Radke, Germany, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1928)   

1904  1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY).   

1904  Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria sociologist/philosopher, dies at 62.   

1906  Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London.   

1907  Howard Joslin, GA, actor (Quebec, Detective Story).   

1907  Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65.   

1908  NY Giants set season attendance record at 910000 (broken in 1920).   

1908  Paul Van Buskirk Yoder, composer   

1909  Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant.   

1909  Bill Hewitt, NFL end (Chicago Bears, Phila Eagles).   

1910  Raymod Gray Lewis, Ontario Canada, 4X400 relayer (Olympic-bronze-1932)   

1912  inaugural Balkan War begins   

1912  1st Balkan War begins   

1912  Wilhelm Kuhe, composer, dies at 88.   

1913  Walter Schumann, NYC, choral director (Ford Show)/composer (Rhenish)   

1915  Battle of Loos, almost 430000 French, British and Germans killed   

1916  Piper James C. Richardson (16th Cdn. Infanctry Batt.) winds the Victoria Cross at the Somme, France   

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1515  Margaret douglas: Countess of lennox   

1585  Heinrich schutz: Composer   

1619  Philipp von zesen: German poet/historian (amsterdam)   

1621  Maximilian h of bayern: Prince-bishop of liege/bishop of hildesheim   

1676  Benito jerónimo feijóo y montenegro: Spanish scholar   

1690  Jaime de casellas: Composer   

1692  Antonio palella: Composer   

1697  Cornelis consolation: Dutch portrait painter (unseemly love)   

0705  Death of Abd al-malik: Kalief of damascus,   

0976  Jelena of zadar: Croatian queen   

1094  Death of St mark: The evangelist, buried in san marcos minstery in venice   

1253  Death of Robert grosseteste: English bishop/expert (optica),   

1286  John i of dreux: Duke of brittany (b. 1217)   

1317  Death of Fushimi: Emperor of japan (b. 1265)   

1604  Death of Janus dousa: [johan van de does], literature/politician,   

1606  Death of Jan: The aged, count of nassau/fathered 24,