October Calendar -- October Calendar of Famous Inventions and October Birthdays

Find out what famous event happened today in history concerning patents, trademarks, or copyrights. What famous inventor has the same birthday as you or what invention was created on that day.

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October Calendar

Find out what famous event happened on the October Calendar for history concerning patents, trademarks, or copyrights. What famous inventor has the same October birthday as you.

October 1
1959 The first episode of Rod Sterling's "Twlight Zone" was copyright registered.

October 2
1963 Martin Luther King's famous "I Have A Dream" speech was copyright registered.

October 3
1950 The transistor was patented by Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain.

October 4
1949 The patent for an antibiotic for typhoid was granted to Crooks, Rebstock, Controalis and Bartz.

October 5
1961 "Breakfast at Tiffanys", the movie based on Truman Capote's book, was copyright registered.

October 6
1941 Electric photography, now referred to as xerography or photocopying, was patented by Chester Carlson.

October 7
1975 Patent #3,909,854 was granted to Ysidro M.
Martinez for a knee implant prosthesis.

October 8
1901 Domino Sugar was trademark registered.

October 9
1855 Isaac Singer patented his sewing machine. The first functional sewing machine, was invented by Barthelemy Thimonnier in 1830. He was almost killed by enraged French tailors because they felt threatened by his invention.

October 10
1911 Henry Ford received a patent for an automobile transmission mechanism.

October 11
1841 A patent for a collapsible tube for use with such items as toothpaste was granted to John Rand.

October 12
1972 Stevie Wonder copyright registered the words and music for "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Wonder registered his first work at age 14 in 1964.)

October 13
1893 The melody for "Happy Birthday To You" was copyright registered. "Happy Birthday" was originally published as "Good Morning To All" in a book called "Song Stories for the Kindergarten" written by Mildred and Patty Hill.

October 14
1835 Henry Blair received a patent in for an improved corn planter.

October 15
1991 Pizza Hut was trademark registered.

October 16
1900 Frank Sprague was granted a patent for a multi-control for electric trains.

October 17
1961 "HOT ROCKS" Candy was trademark registered.

October 18
1931 The famous inventor, Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange, NJ, at age 84.

October 19
1953 Ray Bradbury's novel, "Fahrenheit 451" was copyright registered.
"Fahrenheit 451" was based on Bradbury's earlier short story called "The Fireman."

October 20
1904 The song "Yankee Doodle Boy" was copyright registered.

October 21
1958 Tater Tots were trademark registered.

October 22
1940 Julian, Mayer and Krause received a patent for cortisone, used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, bursitis, adrenal insufficiency, allergies, diseases of connective tissue and gout.

October 23
1877 A patent for a gas-motor engine was issued to Nicolaus Otto, and Francis and William Crossley.

October 24
1836 Alonzo Phillips patented a friction match.
1861 The first transcontinental telegraph system was completed, making it possible to transmit messages rapidly (by mid-19th-century standards) from coast to coast.

October 25
1960 The musical play "Camelot" by Loewe and Lerner was copyright registered

October 26
1928 The novel "Peter Pan" by James Barrie was copyright registered.

October 27
1992 Nintendo of America copyright registered the configuration of its hand-held game machine.

October 28
1879 William Lincoln was issued a patent for a lamp.

October 29
1955 Warner Brothers copyright registered the movie "A Rebel without a Cause" starring James Dean.

October 30
1888 A patent for a ballpoint pen was received by John Loud.

October 31
1961 Patent #3,003,667 was granted to Edward Aguado of St. Louis, MO, for an "airway for artificial respiration."
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October Birthdays

What famous inventor or scientist has the same October birthday as you. The tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

    October Birthdays 1st to 10th
    October Birthdays 11th to 20th
    October Birthdays 21st to 31st
October 1

    1870 - Pieter van Essen was a Dutch artillery officer and the inventor of grape-shot shells
    1904 - Otto Frisch was a noted Austrian physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project part of the team that built the atomic bomb.

    1916 - Hungarian Tibor Reich was a textile designer who designed a textile for Princess Elizabeth's wedding, and was also awarded a Design Centre Award for his photographically based Flamingo printed textile in 1957, the Award's inaugural year.
    1931 - Reginald Hall was a noted endocrinologist who established internationally acclaimed endocrine units in Newcastle and Cardiff, with special expertise in diseases of the thyroid and pituitary glands.

October 2

    1832 - Edward Burnett Tylor was an English anthropologist credited with sparking interest in anthropological science in England as a result of his research on primitive people’s mentality, in particular animism.
    1832 - German botanist, Julius von Sachs researched nutrition, tropism, and transpiration of water, in plant physiology.
    1852 - William Ramsay was a British chemist who discovered neon gas.
    1891 - Henry Van Arsdale Porter invented created the fan-shaped backboard used in basketball.

    1907 - British biochemist, Alexander Robertus researched the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes, and won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
    1907 - Lord Todd was a Scottish biochemist whose investigations of the building blocks of heredity earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1957.

    1914 - Jack Parsons was an American rocket scientist

October 3

    1803 - John Gorrie invented a cold-air process of refrigeration
    1844 - Patrick Manson is considered the "Father" of tropical medicine
    1854 - William Crawford Gorgas served as the American Surgeon-General and helped cure yellow fever
    1904 - Charles Pedersen was a noted British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1987.

October 4

    1832 - William Griggs invented photo-chromo lithography

October 5

    1713 - Denis Diderot was a French encyclopedist who wrote the Dictionnaire Encyclopedique
    1864 - Louis Lumiere made the first motion picture in 1895, and invented camera equipment for making, and a projector for viewing movies
    1882 - Giorgio Abetti was a noted Italian astronomer who researched and wrote about solar physics

October 6

    1824 - Henry Chadwick was a baseball pioneer, who developed the first rule book for baseball
    1846 - George Westinghouse was the inventor and businessman responsible for a commercial alternating current system
    1866 - Reginald Fessenden was an inventor who broadcast the first program of voice and music
    1918 - Abraham Robinson was a noted German mathematician most widely known for development of non-standard analysis
    1940 - John Warnock is a noted American computer scientist best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Inc.

October 7

    1903 - Louis S B Leakey was a famous archaeologist and anthropologist who convinced other scientists that Africa was the most significant area to search for evidence of human origins.
    1927 - R. D. Laing was a famous Scottish psychologist who wrote extensively on mental illness and the experience of psychosis.

October 8

    1869 - Frank Duryea, was an inventor who made the first auto built and operated in the U.S.
    1917 - English biochemist, Rodney Robert Porter shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for determining the exact chemical structure of an antibody.

October 9

    1873 - German physicist and astronmer Karl Schwarzschild, is best known for providing the first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity (Schwarzschild solution)

October 10

    1757 - Erik Acharius was a Swedish botanist called "The father of lichenology"

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October Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same October birthday as you. The tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

    October Birthdays 1st to 10th
    October Birthdays 11th to 20th
    October Birthdays 21st to 31st

October 11

    1758 - Wilhelm Olbers discovered the asteroids Pallas and Vesta
    1821 - Englishmen, George Williams founded the YMCA
    1844 - Henry John Heinz founded the prepared-foods company, Heinz 57 varieties

    1884 - German chemist Friedrich C R Bergius derived benzine from brown coal, and won the Nobel prize

October 12

    1860 - Elmer Sperry was the inventor of the gyrocompass
    1875 - British occultist, Aleister Crowley
    1923 - American nutritionist, Jean Nidetch invented Weight Watchers

October 13

    1769 - Horace H Hayden was considered the architect of the American system of dental education and the organizer of professional dentistry, who also cofounded the first dental college.
    1821 - German, Rudolf Virchow is referred to as the "Father of Pathology" and the founder of the field of Social Medicine.
    1863 - French mining engineer, Auguste Rateau invented the Rateau steam turbine

October 14

    1857 - Auto pioneer, Elwood Haynes built one of the earliest American autos
    1900 - W. Edwards Deming was a noted American Scientist
    1925 - Louis Cohen, physicist
    1939 - fashion designer, Ralph Lauren reinvented chaps
    1954 - Mordechai Vanunu was a noted Israeli scientist

October 15

    1924 - Lee A Iacocca, CEO, Chrysler Corp
    1937 - Anthony Hopkins, clinical neurologist

October 16

    1708 - Swiss scientist, Albrecht von Haller, experimental physiology, Academy of Science
    1925 - Lorraine Sweeny, communications specialist
    1930 - John Polkinghorne, British Physicist
    1979 - Matt Nagle, born in Massachusetts, quadriplegic, first to use brain-computer interface to control movement

Ocotober 17

    1563 - Jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician and cartographer
    1806 - Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist
    1947 - Charles A Ingene, macromarketing researcher

Ocotber 18

    1854 - Solomon A Andree, Swedish engineer/balloonist/Artic explorer
    1859 - Henri Bergson, France, philosopher, Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927
    1947 - Luc Journet, Belgian physician, Order of Zonnetempel
    1948 - Isabel E Allen, biostatician

October 19

    1859 - Georg Knorr, German engineer, brake system trains
    1895 - Lewis Mumford, American Sociologist
    1910 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, India, astrophysicist, Nobel 1983

October 20

    1812 - Austin Flint, 19th century heart research pioneer
    1859 - John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer, Learn by doing
    1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist, discovered neutron
    1924 - Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist

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October Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same October birthday as you. The tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

    October Birthdays 1st to 10th
    October Birthdays 11th to 20th
    October Birthdays 21st to 31st

October 21

    1833 - Swedish scientist, Alfred Nobel invented the detonator for dynamite and nitroglycerin
    1839 - Georg von Siemens founded the Deutsche Bank

October 22

    1896 - Biochemist, Charles Glenn King discovered vitamin C
    1903 - American biologist, George Beadle won the Nobel Prize in 1958
    1905 - Czechoslovakian, Karl Jansky was the first person to discover cosmic radio emissions in 1932.

October 23

    1942 - English cosmetic manufacturer, Anita Roddick founded the Body Shop

October 24

    1632 - Antony van Leeuwenhoek, considered the father of microscopy because of the advances he made in microscope design and use.
    1953 - American scientist, Steven Hatfill
    1908 - Zoologist, John Alwyne Kitching

October 25

    1790 - Scottish inventor, Robert Stirling
    1811 - French mathematician, Evariste Galois wrote the Theory of G
    1877 - Astronomer, Henry Norris Russell discovered the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
    1929 - Astrophysicist, Roger John Tayler
    1945 - Physicist, David Norman Schramm

October 26

    1855 - Charles Post invented the breakfast cereal Post Cereals
    1917 - Cartoon character, Felix the Cat was invented

    1921 - Land economist, George Houston

October 27

    1811 - Issac Singer invented a home sewing machine
    1872 - Emily Post was an authority on etiquette
    1917 - Oliver Tambo co-founder of the African National Congress

October 28

    1793 - American gunmaker, Eliphalet Remington invented a rifle
    1855 - Russian botanist, Ivan V Mitshurin identified many new types of fruit

    1893 - English chemist, Christopher K Ingold
    1914 - Amaerican medical researcher, Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine
    1914 - British bio-chemist, Richard Lawrence Millington Synge who won the Nobel Prize in 1952
    1967 - American inventor John Romero

October 29

    1656 - English scientist, Edmond Halley

October 30

    1880 - Russian physicist, Abram F Joffe
    1928 - American scientist, Daniel Nathans
    October 31
        1755 - Flemish agronomist, Jean Louis van Aelbroeck
        1815 - Germany mathematician, Karl Weierstrass wrote the theory of functions
        1835 - German chemist, J. F. W. Adolf Ritter von Baeyer won the Nobel Prize in 1905
        1847 - Italian physicist, Galileo Ferraris invented 2-fasenmotor
        1898 - French statistician, Alfred Sauvy wrote Affluence and Population
        1935 - American mathematician, Ronald Graham
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