Page 3: Historical Events In October - 10

1865  On October - 10 john Hyatts patents the billiard ball   

1865  On October - 10 john Hyatts patents billard ball   

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

1867  On this day in history ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer, dies at 60   

1868  On October - 10 cuba revolts for independence against Spain   

1868  Declaration of the plan of Yara in Cuba on October - 10.   

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

1868  Guillermo M Tomas, composer on this day in history.   

1874  On October - 10 fiji becomes a British possession   

1875  On October - 10 aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer, dies at 58   

1876  Walter Niemann, composer on this day in history.   

1877  General Custer's funeral is held at West Point on this day in history.   

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

1886  The first tuxedo jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY on October - 10.   

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

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 this day in history teetotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)   

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

1889  Barnard College is founded on October - 10.   

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

1889  Adolph von Henselt, composer, dies at 75 on October - 10.   

1892  Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan on October - 10.   

1892  Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia, novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel 1961) on this day in history.   

1893  On this day in history august Balthazar, Belgian politician   

1895  Johnny Taylor, cricketer (stalwart Aussie batsman of post-WW I days) on this day in history.   

1897  Lamar Stringfield, composer on this day in history.   

1899  On October - 10 iR Johnson patents bicycle frame   

1900  Helen Hayes, Wash DC, actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday) on October - 10.   

1901  On this day in history albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor   

1902  S Afr's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht on this day in history.   

1903  Charles T von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Count of Flanders/prince on October - 10.   

1904  Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St NYC on October - 10.   

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

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1344  On this day in history birth of mary Plantagenet,English princess (d. 1362)   

1486  On October - 10 birth of charles III, Duke of Savoy   

1567  On this day in history birth of infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)   

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

1678  On this day in history birth of john Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal (Union of 1707)   

1684  Jean Antoine Watteau, French rococo painter (Onverschillige) was born on October - 10.   

1700  Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759) was born on this day in history.   

1713  On this day in history birth of johann Ludwig Krebs, composer   

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

0413  On this day in history 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  Death of Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia on this day in history.   

0833  Death of al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786) on this day in history.   

1359  Death of King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295) on October - 10.   

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

1651  Philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostole, dies at 77 on October - 10.