E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

In October 1917, John H. Higgins, the publisher and treasurer of the Boston Herald bought out its next door neighbor The Boston Journal and created The Boston Herald and Boston Journal

In his 1917 draft registration, Jefferson gave his birth date as October 26, 1894, further stating that he then lived in Dallas, Texas, and that he had been blind from birth.

* Hughes, Matthew ( edited and selected ) ( 2004 ) Allenby in Palestine The Middle East Correspondence of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby June 1917 – October 1919 Publications of the Army Records Society Vol.

At a War Cabinet meeting, held on 31 October 1917, Balfour suggested that a declaration favorable to Zionist aspirations would allow Great Britain " to carry on extremely useful propaganda both in Russia and America "

The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later in 1922 become the chief constituent of the Soviet Union.

In the first month and half after the October Revolution ( 1917 ), the duty of " extinguishing the resistance of exploiters " was assigned to the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee ( or VRK ).

After a stalemate on the Gaza — Beersheba line between March and October 1917, Beersheba was captured by the Australian Mounted Division's 4th Light Horse Brigade.

The motion to carry out a revolution in October 1917 was passed with 10 in favour, and two against by the Central Committee.

The party led the 1917 October Revolution that overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and claimed to have established the world's first socialist state.

A meeting called by Count Plunkett on 19 April 1917 led to the formation of a broad political movement under the banner of Sinn Féin which was formalised at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis of 25 October 1917.

The Bolshevik revolution in October 1917 did not eliminate the privately owned film companies at first, though production was reduced through 1918.

In 1917, Mussolini as leader of the Fasci of Revolutionary Action praised the October Revolution that brought Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik movement to power in Russia, as Mussolini himself desired a revolution in Italy to bring the Fascists to power.

A major event that greatly influenced the development of fascism was the October Revolution of 1917 in which Bolshevik communists led by Vladimir Lenin seized power in Russia.

In 1917, Mussolini as leader of the Fasci of Revolutionary Action praised the October Revolution, however Mussolini later became unimpressed with Lenin, regarding him as merely a new version of Tsar Nicholas.

The collapse of the Russian Empire following the February and October Revolutions of 1917 spurred the collapse of the Grand Duchy of Finland, and the resultant power vacuum led to bitter conflict between the left-leaning labor movement, led by the Social Democrats, and more conservative non-socialists.

The main factors behind the Finnish Civil War were World War I, the collapse of the Russian Empire, and the February and October Revolutions of 1917.

In the October 1917 elections, the Social Democrats lost their absolute majority, which radicalized the labour movement and decreased support for relying on parliamentary means of achieving its aims.

After the Finnish non-socialists won the October 1917 Parliamentary elections, they established an informal truce with the Russian Provisional Government, a situation which was completely disrupted by the Bolshevist revolution in October.

There were 149 Civil-White Guards in Finland ( local units in towns and rural communes ) on 31 August 1917, 251 on 30 September, 315 on 31 October, 380 on 30 November 1917 and 408 on 26 January 1918.

Following the political defeats in July and October 1917, on 1 November the Social Democrats put forward an uncompromising program called " We demand " in order to push for political concessions.

In October 2006, scientists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory successfully created synthetically ununoctium ( Uuo ), the seventh element in group 18, by bombarding californium ( Cf ) with calcium ( Ca ).

* October 2 – Jacques Cartier reaches the area ( island ) in the St. Lawrence River that eventually becomes Montreal, Quebec.

A professional version was released in October 2009, developed by the same author, Lawrence Philips.

Award of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory contract to LLNS LLC took effect October 1, 2007, rounding out Bechtel's control of the bulk of the US nuclear weapons facilities including LANL ( design ), LLNL ( design ), Savannah River Site ( nuclear materials ), Hanford Site ( nuclear materials ), Pantex Plant ( assembly / disassembly ), and Y-12 National Security Complex ( nuclear materials ).

Harvard law professor and Creative Commons board member Lawrence Lessig had called for a constitutional convention in a September 24 – 25, 2011 conference co-chaired by the Tea Party Patriots ' national coordinator, in Lessig's October 5 book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It, and at the Occupy protest in Washington, DC.

During the Second World War, the Battle of the St. Lawrence involved a number of submarine and anti-submarine actions throughout the lower St. Lawrence River and the entire Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Strait of Belle Isle and Cabot Strait from May to October 1942, September 1943, and again in October and November 1944.

The first decay of atoms of ununoctium was observed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ( JINR ) by Yuri Oganessian and his group in Dubna, Russia, in 2002 .< ref name =" pp2002 "> On October 9, 2006, researchers from JINR and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of California, USA, working at the JINR in Dubna, announced that they had indirectly detected a total of three ( possibly four ) nuclei of ununoctium-294 ( one or two in 2002 and two more in 2005 ) produced via collisions of californium-249 atoms and calcium-48 ions:

* " Thomas Lawrence: the new romantic-review " Richard Holmes reviews the National Portrait Gallery exhibition, The Guardian, 16 October 2010

Created by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly on October 21, 1817, Lawrence County was formed from lands previously part of Hickman and Giles Counties.

Independence County is Arkansas's ninth county, formed on October 20, 1820, from a portion of Lawrence County and named to honor the Declaration of Independence.

In October 1870 the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston railway was run through Humboldt ; the railway is currently a short line owned by BNSF Railway.

* Lawrence Joseph Giacoletto ( November 14, 1916 in Clinton, Indiana ;- October 4, 2004 in Okemos, Michigan ) was an American electrical engineer and inventor.

Sir Barnes Wallis died on 30 October 1979 and was buried in St Lawrence Churchyard, just a few yards from KGV fields.

Lawrence Kohlberg ( October 25, 1927 – January 19, 1987 ) was a Jewish American psychologist born in Bronxville, New York, he was the son of Alfred Kohlberg, a Jewish man, and of his second wife, Charlotte Albrecht, a Protestant woman.

On October 13, 1993, 42-year-old Paul F. Lawrence was fatally injured when a forklift tipped over onto him.

" By October of that year, " Lawrence Di Rita, the Pentagon's chief spokesman, said ' prewar estimates that may be borne out in fact are likelier to be more lucky than smart.

On 23 October 1916 at Hamra in the Wadi Safra, the first encounter took place between Faisal and Captain T. E. Lawrence, a relatively junior British intelligence officer from Cairo.

Furthermore, the American ships controlled Lake Ontario, making an attack impossible until the British launched the first-rate ship of the line HMS St. Lawrence on 15 October, too late in the year for major operations.

Abbandando had two sons: Lawrence, born on December 20, 1927 out of wedlock, and Frank Abbandando Jr., on October 17, 1935.