The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to John Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing instrument that would be able to write on his leather products, which then-common fountain pens could not do.

The second experimental film, Roundhay Garden Scene, filmed by Louis Le Prince on October 14, 1888 in Roundhay, Leeds, England, is now known as the earliest surviving motion picture.

Inaugurated in August 1888 by Queen Victoria, the first council meeting was held within the chambers in October 1889.

3 October 1888: Annexation ceremony w. King Auweyida at the centre

On 1 October 1888, the German gunboat SMS Eber landed 36 men on Nauru.

Nikolai Bukharin was born on September 27 ( October 9, new style ), 1888 in Moscow.

* Faisal bin Turki ( June 4, 1888 – October 15, 1913 )

** 29 October 1955 – 10 January 1956 Heinrich Welsch ( b. 1888 – d. 1976 ), Non-party

* October 13 – Florence La Badie, Canadian actress ( b. 1888 )

* October 20 – Horatio Spafford, author of the hymn It is Well with my Soul ( d. 1888 )

* October 21 – Henry Armetta, Italian actor ( b. 1888 )

* October 12 – Aritomo Gotō, Japanese admiral ( b. 1888 )

* October 15 – Alan Goodrich Kirk, American admiral ( b. 1888 )

* October 14 – Edith Evans, British actress ( b. 1888 )

* October 27 – Joseph ' Squizzy ' Taylor, Australian underworld figure ( b. 1888 )

* October 9 – Alexander I of Yugoslavia, King of Yugoslavia ( b. 1888 )

* October 18 – Emperor Frederick III of Germany ( d. 1888 )

Roland Garros (; 6 October 1888 – 5 October 1918 ) was an early French aviator and a fighter pilot during World War I.

John Wentworth ( nicknamed " Long John ") ( March 5, 1815 – October 16, 1888 ) was the editor of the Chicago Democrat, a two-term mayor of Chicago, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives, both before and after his service as mayor.

Eugene Gladstone O ' Neill ( October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953 ) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature.

A commemorative plaque is posted on the outside wall with the inscription " Eugene O ' Neill, October 16, 1888 ~ November 27, 1953 America's greatest playwright was born on this site then called Barrett Hotel, Presented by Circle in the Square.

Henry Agard Wallace ( October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965 ) was the 33rd Vice President of the United States ( 1941 – 1945 ), the Secretary of Agriculture ( 1933 – 1940 ), and the Secretary of Commerce ( 1945 – 1946 ).

Henry A. Wallace, son of Henry Cantwell Wallace, was born on October 7, 1888, at a farm near the village of Orient, Iowa, in Adair County.

A successful March 2004 regional transportation ballot measure included funding to rehabilitate the rail bridge for the commuter rail service, but in October 2008 the Metropolitan Transportation Commission transferred $ 91 million from this project to the BART Warm Springs Extension Project in Fremont

On October 11, 1964 the Vikings played the Detroit Lions at Metropolitan Stadium and the Lions mistakenly only brought their white jerseys to Minnesota.

* October 9 – Sir William Horwood, London Metropolitan Police Service commissioner, is poisoned by arsenic-filled chocolates.

Turandot quickly spread to other venues: Rome ( Teatro Costanzi, April 29, four days after the Milan premiere ), Buenos Aires ( Teatro Colón, June 23 ), Dresden ( September 6, in German ), Venice ( La Fenice, September 9 ), Vienna ( October 14 ; Mafalda Salvatini in the title role ), Berlin ( November 8 ), New York ( Metropolitan Opera, November 16 ), Brussels ( La Monnaie, 17 December, in French ), Naples ( Teatro San Carlo, January 17, 1927 ), Parma ( February 12 ), Turin ( March 17 ), London ( Covent Garden, June 7 ), San Francisco ( September 19 ), Bologna ( October 1927 ), Paris ( March 29, 1928 ), Australia 1928, Moscow ( Bolshoi Theatre, 1931 ).

* October 15 – Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow

Between 1 October 2007 and 21 September 2008, the first major exhibit of Turner's works in the United States in over forty years came to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Dallas Museum of Art.

He made his Metropolitan Opera début in October 1974 as Aschenbach in Death in Venice.

She also appeared in the Metropolitan Opera's inaugural performance on October 22, 1883 in Gounod's Faust.

Metropolitan Railway services from St Mary's to ( SER ) and Metropolitan District Railway services from St Mary's to ( LB & SCR ) commenced on 1 October 1884.

For example, an October 2003 directive by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government required teachers to stand during the national anthem at graduation ceremonies.

Later that month, it was announced to begin airing on Tokyo Metropolitan Television on October 6 at 12: 30 a. m. ( officially October 5 at 24: 30 ).

That October, the group made history by performing at the Metropolitan Opera House in a concert later billed as " Wear Something Silver ", as the members of Labelle were now wearing silver, metallic wear equipped with feathers and silver platform boots, which later inspired George Clinton to adapt a similar look for his band, Funkadelic, two years later, also adapting the space-age lyrical and musical matter, pioneered by Nona Hendryx and Labelle.

* July 19 – The American Guild of Musical Artists and the Metropolitan Opera Association announce a resolution of their dispute, so that the season will begin on October 29 as originally planned.

* October 29 – In New York, the Metropolitan Opera's seventy-second season opens with a revival of Bellini's Norma, made especially for Maria Callas's Metropolitan debut in the title role.

It was announced, in September 2005, that the Metropolitan Police Special Branch would be merging with the Anti-Terrorism Branch of the Metropolitan Police to form a new department called Counter Terrorism Command, with the new department coming into being on 2 October 2006, thus completing a process begun when the investigative wing of the Special Branch X squad became The Anti-Terrorist Branch in 1972.

The sub-surface Circle and District line platforms were opened on 1 October 1868 by the Metropolitan Railway ( MR ) as part of its extension from Paddington to Gloucester Road.

* October 22-Opening of the first Metropolitan Opera House.

Dollis Hill tube station opened on 1 October 1909 as part of the second railway in the area, the Metropolitan Line, now transferred to the Jubilee Line.

The station opened on 1 October 1909 as part of the Metropolitan Line.