Franco's Spanish State
Oct 1 Generalissimo Francisco Franco establishes state of Spain
- Oct 2 1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas
- Oct 2 Amsterdam's Calvinist Churches reject Nazism
- Oct 2 French franc devalued, relatively late and after Britain (1931) and the US (1933)
- Oct 2 New York Yankees score Baseball World Series record 18 runs in an 18-4 rout of rival NY Giants in Game 2 at the Polo Grounds; Yankees win series 4-2
- Oct 3 NY Yankees set new attendance record of 64,482 in Game 3 of World Series at Yankee Stadium; 66,669 following day Game 4; win series v NY Giants, 4-2
- Oct 4 Italian lire devalued
- Oct 4 Record crowd 66,669 packs Yankee Stadium for Game 4 of Baseball World Series; Yankees beat Giants, 5-2; win series, 4-2
- Oct 5 The Jarrow March sets off for London
- Oct 6 Baseball World Series: Yankees beat Giants, 13-5 at the Polo Grounds to win all-New York series, 4-2
Dodgers Fire Stengel
Oct 7 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel
Jean Batten's Solo Record
Oct 16 Jean Batten reaches Auckland, New Zealand after flying solo from Kent, England in a record 11 days and 45 minutes
Lou Gehrig
Oct 16 Lou Gehrig, is voted AL MVP by BBWAA
- Oct 19 HR Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18½ days
MVP Carl Hubbell
Oct 20 Carl Hubbell, 26-6, edges out Dizzy Dean, 24-13, for MVP honors in NL
- Oct 20 Spanish government moves to Barcelona
- Oct 22 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii
Statue of Liberty Turns 50
Oct 28 FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
Red, Hot And Blue
Oct 29 Cole Porter's musical "Red, Hot And Blue", starring Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope, opens at the Alvin Theatre, NYC; runs for 183 performances
- Oct 31 The Boy Scouts of the Philippines formed
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
Suffragists