Federal Income Tax
Oct 3 US Federal income tax signed into law (at 1%) by President Woodrow Wilson
President Yuan Shikai
Oct 10 Yuan Shikai installed as the 1st President of China
- Oct 11 Baseball World Series: Philadelphia A's beat NY Giants, 3-1 at Brush Stadium, NYC; clinch 4-1 series win for 3rd title in 10 years
- Oct 14 Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, an explosion claims 439 lives.
- Oct 15 Train crash at St. James' Station, Liverpool during "Black Week" kills six and injures 63
- Oct 16 Booth Theater opens at 222 W 44th St NYC
Pygmalion
Oct 16 George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion" premieres in Hofburg Theatre in Vienna, Austria
Natal Indian Congress
Oct 19 At a meeting of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in Durban, NIC secretaries, M. C. Anglia and Dada Osman, severely criticise Mahatma Gandhi and tender their resignations
- Oct 21 Transvaal women satyagrahis begin defiance activities, hawking without licenses in Vereeniging; they cross the Natal border and encourage the miners in Newcastle to strike
- Oct 22 Explosion at Stag Canyon coal mine kills 263 workers, near Dawson, New Mexico, only 23 miners survived
- Oct 24 Joe Tinker fired as Cincinnati Reds manager
Victoriano Huerta
Oct 26 Dictator Victoriano Huerta elected president of Mexico
- Oct 27 In a speech in Mobile, Alabama, President Woodrow Wilson vows the US will "will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest" [1]
- Oct 28 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
- Oct 29 Floods in El Salvador kill thousands
- Oct 31 1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway is dedicated
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
Suffragists