* Contestado War ( 1912-1916 ): Was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners, the latter supported by the Brazilian state's police and military forces, that lasted from October 1912 to August 1916.

He soon had to give this up when his malaria returned, and so decided to return to Malaya in October 1916 because of the warmer climate.

Gilbert Newton Lewis ForMemRS ( October 23, 1875 – March 23, 1946 ) was an American physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent bond ( see his Lewis dot structures and his 1916 paper " The Atom and the Molecule "), his purification of heavy water, his reformulation of chemical thermodynamics in a mathematically rigorous manner accessible to ordinary chemists, his theory of Lewis acids and bases, and his photochemical experiments.

For service on the Somme on 15 September 1916, he was in October appointed to the Distinguished Service Order, the citation for which read: " For conspicuous gallantry in action.

His mother, Ruth Hilda ( née Holmes ; 1916 – 1991 ), taught at an elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Norwood Bacon ( May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005 ), was a well-respected architect and a prominent Philadelphian who had been Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission for many years.

On October 16, 1916, Sanger opened a family planning and birth control clinic at 46 Amboy St. in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, the first of its kind in the United States.

In October 1916, while based in New York City, he edited the newspaper Novy Mir ( New World ) with Leon Trotsky and Alexandra Kollontai.

The renewed German campaign was effective, sinking 1. 4 million tons of shipping between October 1916 and January 1917.

* October 30 – John Young, British actor ( Monty Python ) ( b. 1916 )

* October 14 – Frankie Yankovic, American musician ( b. 1916 )

* October 28 – Robert Charpentier, French Olympic cyclist ( b. 1916 )

* October 14 – Keenan Wynn, American actor ( b. 1916 )

* October 2 – Horace Hood, British admiral ( d. 1916 )

* October 16 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor ( d. 1916 )

* October 2 – William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1916 )

* October 27 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1916 )

* October 6 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician ( d. 1916 )

* October 12 – Ray Conniff, American musician and bandleader ( b. 1916 )

A narrow majority of Australians voted against conscription in a very bitter hard-fought referendum in October 1916, and then again in December 1917, Australia being the only belligerent in World War One without conscription.

) A number of other scandals were associated with the IWW, a five pound note forgery scandal, the so-called Tottenham tragedy in which the murder of a police officer was blamed on the IWW, and above all the IWW was blamed for the defeat of the October 1916 conscription referendum.

François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (; 26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996 )

In October 1916 the Air Board published its first report which was highly critical of the arrangements within the British air services.

In alliance with Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans, Bulgaria won military victories against Serbia and Romania, occupying much of Macedonia ( taking Skopje in October ), advancing into Greek Macedonia, and taking Dobruja from Romania in September 1916.

In the previous year she had worked with Martin Heidegger in editing Husserl's papers for publication, Heidegger being appointed similarly as a teaching assistant to Husserl at Freiburg in October 1916.

Another occurred in issue 2674, dated 16 October 1993, when the whole comic was now printed in full colour, along with some new strips such as The Numskulls, which had been moved from The Beezer.

Preparations were made to film episode 923, to be transmitted Wednesday 29 October 1969, in colour.

In October 1970 a technician's dispute turned into a work-to-rule when sound staff were denied a pay rise given to camera staff the year before for working with colour recording equipment.

In October 2008 TfL introduced a new colour scheme to the vehicles, using the blue, white and green of the routes ' symbol on TfL maps, to distinguish the trams from its buses operating in the area.

The expedition ended in October 1898 and Rivers returned to England .” In 1900, Rivers joined Myers and Wilkin in Egypt to run tests on the colour vision of the Egyptians ; this was the last time he saw Wilkin, who died of dysentery in May 1901, aged 24.

Together, by October 1957, they had designed and built the original prototype, which was affectionately named " The Orange Box " because of its colour.

Olympic women's ice hockey champion Cassie Campbell joined Hockey Night in Canada as a rinkside reporter, becoming ( on October 14, 2006 ) the first woman to do colour commentary on a Hockey Night in Canada broadcast.

* The colours orange and black represent the secular holiday Halloween ( 31 October ) because orange is the colour of pumpkins and black is the colour of night and is associated with doom, despair and darkness.

It was made in colour from series 2, although the series was still broadcast in monochrome by the BBC up until the first colour episode was transmitted on 5 October 1970.

John and Maria's marriage in October 1816 at St Martin-in-the-Fields ( with Fisher officiating ) was followed by time at Fisher's vicarage and a honeymoon tour of the south coast, where the sea at Weymouth and Brighton stimulated Constable to develop new techniques of brilliant colour and vivacious brushwork.

They are of a similar colour to the adults and can swim from birth, The Gray Seal, which is more common in this area having one of the largest British populations, also comes in a number of colours and live in colonies giving birth to white pups from October through to January.

* October 1-First colour television was introduced in France using SECAM system.

* On October 29, 1963, two Aeronautical Chart and Information Center cartographers, James A. Greenacre and Edward Barr, at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, manually recorded very bright red, orange, and pink colour phenomena on the southwest side of Cobra Head ; a hill southeast of the lunar valley Vallis Schröteri ; and the southwest interior rim of the Aristarchus crater.

* 27 November 1969 to 29 October 1970: Unknown brass track played over colour titles with a voiceover proclaiming, " Yes!

Jean-Antoine Watteau (; October 10, 1684 – July 18, 1721 ) was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement ( in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens ).

In October 2007, Minnie's jumper changed colour from her familiar black and red stripes to red and yellow, with her skirt also changing from black to blue.

When Number 1 School of Technical Training moved to RAF Cosford in 1993, they took over guardianship of the Queen's Colour, and on 31 October 1997, Her Majesty presented RAF Halton with its second colour.

* Red, not the Roman-Rite green, is the standard colour of vestments from Pentecost to the third Sunday of October, and there are other differences in liturgical colours throughout the year.

The area is a prime tourist attraction, particularly during the October weeks when the foliage is turning colour.

In late October, 2010, the Panthers announced that rust would no longer be a secondary colour for the club.

Along with most Australian TV stations, GTV-9 commenced colour test transmissions in October, 1974.

The switch to colour occurred at 14: 15 CET on 1 October 1967, using the SECAM system.