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In October 1896 Lieutenant James Robert Phillips ( RN ) Phillips was not a Lieutenant, he was a lawyer ; after completing articles he was Sheriff and Overseer of Prisons in the Gold Coast and later Acting Queen's Advocate there, before his appointment as Acting Consul-Generalin the Protectorate-see Home, cited below already, at page 30 the Acting Consul-General visited the Benin River District and had meetings with the agents and traders.
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October and 1896
Consequently, on October 31, 1896, Mrs. King wrote to Thompson, quite against her daughter's wishes, asking him not to `` recommence a correspondence which I believe has been dropped for some weeks ''.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.
Oswald was born in New Orleans on October 18, 1939, to Marguerite Frances ( née Claverie ; New Orleans, Louisiana, July 19, 1907 – Fort Worth, Texas, January 17, 1981 ) and Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr. ( New Orleans, Louisiana, March 4, 1896 – New Orleans, August 19, 1939 ).
The U-Bahn arrived first, from the south ; begun on 10 September 1896, it opened on 18 February 1902, with a new and better sited station being provided on 29 September 1907, and the line itself being extended north and east on 1 October 1908.
Ruth Gordon Jones ( October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985 ), better known as Ruth Gordon, was an American actress and writer.
Roman Osipovich Jakobson () ( October 10, 1896, Moscow – July 18, 1982, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.
* McFadden ’ s Row of Flats ( 18 October 1896 – 10 January 1897 )
William Morris ( 24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896 ) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and libertarian socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement.
* October 30 or 31 – Heinrich Gontermann, German World War I fighter ace ( b. 1896 )
* October 16 – Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan ( b. 1896 )
* October 26 – Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1896 )
* October 21 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize ( d. 1896 )
* October 29 – Julien Duvivier, French film director ( b. 1896 )
* October 28 – André Masson, French artist ( b. 1896 )
* October 31 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( b. 1896 )
* October 22 – The College of New Jersey is founded ( it becomes Princeton University in 1896 ).
After October 7, 1896, it began publishing Dow's expanded list of stocks.
Harry Randall Truman ( October 30, 1896 – May 18, 1980 ) was a resident of the U. S. state of Washington who lived on Mount St. Helens and came to brief fame in the months preceding the 1980 eruption after stubbornly refusing to leave his home.
Robert Sanderson Mulliken ForMemRS ( June 7, 1896 – October 31, 1986 ) was an American physicist and chemist, primarily responsible for the early development of molecular orbital theory, i. e. the elaboration of the molecular orbital method of computing the structure of molecules.
They were later married on October 26, 1896.
He was appointed 2nd Governor-General of Taiwan from 2 June 1896 to October 1896.
* GC of the Order of Charles III of Spain ( 26 October 1896 )
It also served as Utah's first statehouse from 1896 until the current Utah State Capitol was dedicated on October 9, 1916.
Verdon was born in Culver City, California, the second child of Gertrude Lilian ( Standring ; October 24, 1896 – October 16, 1956 ) and Joseph William Verdon ( December 31, 1896 – June 23, 1978 ), who were British immigrants to the United States by way of Canada .< ref >
October and Lieutenant
In October 1792, he sent Lieutenant William Robert Broughton with several boats up the Columbia River.
Lieutenant Nikolaos Votsis scored a major success for Greek morale on 31 October: he sailed his torpedo boat No. 11, under the cover of night, into the harbor of Thessaloniki, sank the old Ottoman ironclad battleship Feth-i Bülend and escaped unharmed.
John Graves Simcoe ( February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806 ) was a British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 – 1796.
In June 2009, Bernard Sumner formed a new band called Bad Lieutenant with Phil Cunningham ( guitar ) and Jake Evans ( guitar and vocals ), that completed an album, Never Cry Another Tear, which was released on 5 October 2009.
The situation began to change on 19 October 1948, when Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay assumed leadership of the Strategic Air Command, a position he held until June 1957, the longest tenure for any United States armed forces commander since Winfield Scott.
* October 10 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ( b. 1688 )
* October 9 – War of 1812: American naval forces under Lieutenant Jesse Duncan Elliott capture two British warships, and HMS Caledonia.
* Second Lieutenant Robert Riddel, Military Cross, 10th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Passchendaele, 12 October 1917
On October 6, 1777, a combined force of roughly 2, 100 Loyalists, Hessians, and British regulars led by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton attacked forts Montgomery and Clinton from the landward side ( where the defenses were only partially completed ).
Even in October 1739 Vernon had sent his first Lieutenant Percival along with two Spanish Fraternity on the ship, with the excuse to deliver a letter to Blas de Lezo and another who at that time was the governor of Cartagena, Don Pedro Hidalgo.
* Lieutenant James Callaghan, MP ( 26 July 1945 – 21 October 1964 )
* Lieutenant The Right Honourable James Callaghan, MP ( 21 October 1964 –?
In October, the Shanghai Expeditionary Force ( SEF ) was reinforced by the Japanese 10th Army commanded by Lieutenant General Heisuke Yanagawa.
* Second Lieutenant, Air Corps Reserve: October 12, 1929
Charles II retreated over the Pyrenees to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and in October he made his way to Bordeaux to plead for military aid from Sir John Neville, the Lieutenant of Gascony.
In 1870, the county was renamed for Matthew Cowley, First Lieutenant in Company I, 9th Kansas Cavalry, who died at Little Rock, Arkansas, on October 7, 1864.
On 28 October 1797 Brock purchased the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and became acting commanding officer of the regiment, assuming substantive command on 22 March 1798 with the retirement of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Keppel.
In June 1811 he was promoted to Major General and in October of that year Lieutenant Governor Francis Gore left for England.
In October 1931, Lieutenant Governor Cyr, by then Long's avowed enemy, argued that the Senator-elect could no longer remain governor.
Offutt AFB is named in honor of First Lieutenant Jarvis Jennes Offutt ( 26 October 1894 – 13 August 1918 ).
In October 1792, Vancouver directed a young Lieutenant named William Broughton to lead a party of men in a long boat up the Columbia to explore its head waters.
In an attempt to support the embattled troops the 1er BEP Replacement Company ( 120 men ) under Lieutenant Loth had been merged with 268 men from 3e BCCP ( Bataillon Colonial de Commandos Parachutistes, Parachute Colonial Commando Battalion ) under Captain Cazeaux and they were parachuted into That Khe on 8 October, but over the course of the next week destroyed as well.
The Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Yorktown, or Surrender of Yorktown, the latter taking place on October 19, 1781, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis.
Negotiations began on October 18 between Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Dundas and Major Alexander Ross ( who represented the British ) and Lieutenant Colonel Laurens ( who represented the Americans ) and the Marquis de Noailles ( who represented the French ).
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