Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill)

Event

Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) elected 1st woman Representative

Event

Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising

Event

Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president

Event

Joe Bushkin, NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes)

Birth

October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power

Event

British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks

Event

Andras Mihaly, composer

Birth

United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed

Event

Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets

Event

Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Misteriya Buff," premieres in Petrograd

Event

Billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades)

Birth

Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56

Death

US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers

Event

Ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool," premieres in NYC

Event

Al Hirt, New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World)

Birth

Matthew Coady, journalist

Birth

Wolf Mankowitz, British(?) playwright

Birth

Italians liberal-national party joins fascist

Event

Joan Sutherland, Sydney Australia, operatic soprano (Met Opera)

Birth

Hiroshi Yamauchi, Kyoto Japan, owner (Seattle Mariners)

Birth

Herbert Hoover (R) elected president

Event

Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor

Birth

Museum of Modern Art opens (NYC)

Event

Rudy Boschwitz, (Sen-R-Mn, 1978- )

Birth