October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October retained its name after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans.
October symbols: The birthstones of Octoberare the tourmaline and opal. Its birth flower is the calendula. The zodiac signs for the month of October are Libra (until October 22) or Scorpio (October 23 onwards). October Star Stones: Libra (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22). Planetary Stone: Sapphire; Lucky Charms: Opal, Sardonyx, Chrysolite; birthstone: pink Tourmaline, Opal. Scorpio (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21). Planetary Stone: Garnet, Ruby; Lucky Charms: Aquamarine, Beryl. October Mystical birthstone is Jasper. October Ayurvedic Birthstone is Opal.
Historical Events for October, 1910
Day of Week 1st » Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the 'Los Angeles Times' building in downtown Los Angeles, killing 21.
Day of Week 5th » In a 5 October 1910 revolution named revolution in Portugal the list of Portuguese monarchs named monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
Day of Week 6th » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (7 times in total).
Day of Week 10th » Tau Epsilon Phi: Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is founded on the campus of Columbia University in New York City, New York.
Day of Week 11th » Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
Day of Week 14th » The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C..
Day of Week 15th » America (airship) known as Airship America launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
Day of Week 20th » The hull of the RMS called Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS called Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Day of Week 21st » HMS Niobe 1897 6 arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
Day of Week 22nd » Hawley Harvey Crippen or Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville (HM Prison) or Pentonville Prison in London.
Famous Birthdays on October in 1910
1st » Bonnie and Clyde named Bonnie Parker, American criminal (d. 1934)
1st » Fritz Köberle, Austrian-Brazilian physician and pathologist (d. 1983)
1st » José Enrique Moyal, Australian physicist and engineer (d. 1998)
1st » Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Polish-Israeli rabbi and scholar (d. 2012)
25th » Willie Anderson (golfer) named Willie Anderson, Scottish-American golfer (b. 1878)
30th » Henry Dunant, Swiss activist, founded the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement known as Red Cross, Nobel Peace Prize e.g Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)