Page 3: Historical Events In October - 10

1865  On October - 10 john Hyatts patents the billiard ball   

1865  John Hyatts patents billard ball on October - 10.   

1865  On October - 10 raffaele Merry del Val, Spanish cardinal   

1867  On October - 10 ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer, dies at 60   

1868  On October - 10 cuba revolts for independence against Spain   

1868  On October - 10 declaration of the plan of Yara in Cuba   

1868  1st written account of a Canadian football game on October - 10.   

1868  Guillermo M Tomas, composer on October - 10.   

1874  Fiji becomes a British possession on October - 10.   

1875  Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

1876  On this day in history walter Niemann, composer   

1877  General Custer's funeral is held at West Point on October - 10.   

1884  On October - 10 c "Ormy" C Pearse, cricketer (3 Tests for S Afr in Australia 1910-11)   

1886  The first tuxedo jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY on this day in history.   

1886  1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY (tuxedo) on this day in history.   

1886  David L Yule, 1st Jewish US senator, dies on this day in history.   

1887  Rie Cramer, [Marie Holman], Dutch cartoonist/author on October - 10.   

1888  On October - 10 teetotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)   

1888  Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa) on October - 10.   

1889  On October - 10 barnard College is founded.   

1889  Han [Henricus A] Van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger (Vermeer) on this day in history.   

1889  On October - 10 adolph von Henselt, composer, dies at 75   

1892  Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan on this day in history.   

1892  Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia, novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel 1961) on October - 10.   

1893  August Balthazar, Belgian politician on this day in history.   

1895  Johnny Taylor, cricketer (stalwart Aussie batsman of post-WW I days) on October - 10.   

1897  Lamar Stringfield, composer on October - 10.   

1899  IR Johnson patents bicycle frame on this day in history.   

1900  Helen Hayes, Wash DC, actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday) on this day in history.   

1901  On October - 10 albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor   

1902  On October - 10 s Afr's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht   

1903  Charles T von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Count of Flanders/prince on this day in history.   

1904  On this day in history liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St NYC   

1905  On October - 10 jane Winton, Phila, actress (Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan)   

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1344  Mary Plantagenet,English princess (d. 1362) was born on October - 10.   

1486  On this day in history birth of charles III, Duke of Savoy   

1567  Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597) was born on October - 10.   

1599  On this day in history birth of jacob Aertsz Colom, Dutch publisher (Consolation of the Sea)   

1678  John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal (Union of 1707) was born on this day in history.   

1684  On this day in history birth of jean Antoine Watteau, French rococo painter (Onverschillige)   

1700  On October - 10 birth of lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)   

1713  Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer was born on this day in history.   

0019  On this day in history julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33   

0413  On October - 10 death of nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57   

0680  On October - 10 death of hussein, grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded   

0732  On October - 10 death of abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia   

0833  Death of al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786) on October - 10.   

1359  Death of King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295) on this day in history.   

1616  Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1651  Philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostole, dies at 77 on this day in history.