Events Date 1919 October | History by KabAstro

Oct 1 Infamous 'Black Sox' Baseball World Series begins with Cincinnati Reds' Dutch Ruether pitching a 6-hitter and hitting 3 RBI on 2 triples and a single for a 9-1 rout of White Sox
Oct 2 First edition of the Dutch newspaper "Volkskrant" (The People's Paper) is published

Woodrow Wilson Paralyzed

Oct 2 US President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed

Oct 3 Cuban Dolf Luque becomes first Hispanic player to appear in Baseball World Series; pitches 1 inning of relief in Cincinnati Reds' 3-0 defeat to Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park
Oct 3 Serbian, Croatian and Slavic Parliament passes an accord for an 8 hr work day
Oct 5 Norwegian population agrees to prohibition
Oct 6 Chicago White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a Baseball World Series in Game 5 vs Cincinnati Reds; angered when pitchers Eddie Cicotte & Lefty Williams refuse to follow his signals during 5-0 loss
Oct 6 Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria
Oct 7 Fritz Kreisler, Victor Jacobi, and William LeBaron's operetta "Apple Blossoms" opens at the Globe Theatre, NYC; runs for 256 performances
Oct 7 KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij), Royal Dutch Airlines, one of the oldest existing airline) is founded in Amsterdam
Oct 9 Baseball World Series: Cincinnati Reds beat Chicago White Sox, 10-5 at Comiskey Park for a 5-3 series victory; due to 'Black Sox Scandal' last WS to take place without a Commissioner of Baseball in place

Oct 10 Richard Strauss and Hugo van Hofmannsthal's opera "Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without A Shadow)", premieres in Vienna, Austria

Oct 15 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vermont to Massachusetts for $1000 prize money
Oct 17 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is created as a subsidiary of General Electric
Oct 18 Belvin Maynard wins the first transcontinental air race in round trip of nine days, four hours, 25 minutes and 12 seconds, race costs nine lives with 54 crashes or forced landings

Oct 18 David Beatty is created 1st Earl Beatty, Viscount Borodale, and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby

Oct 19 1st US Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a living female recipient, Anna Howard Shaw
Oct 23 Orchestra Hall, designed by C. Howard Crane opens in Detroit, Michigan; home of the Detroit Symphony, 1919-39 and 1989 to present, also known as The Paradise Theater, featuring top jazz performers and films, 1941-51
Oct 23 Romberg & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show" premieres in NYC
Oct 26 B C Hilliam's musical "Buddies" premieres in NYC

Oct 26 Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, premieres at Queen's Hall, London

Oct 26 US President Woodrow Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden
Oct 27 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
Oct 28 Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Woodrow Wilson's veto
Oct 30 Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball