Events
October 1889 | | First issue of the Bullettino della Società Fotografica Italiana and it continues until December 1914. | 1 October 1894 |  | The Photo-Club of Paris ('le Photo Club de Paris') holds its first exhibition Première exposition d'art photographique. | 1 October 1938 |  | Stephan Lorant founds the photographically illustrated Picture Post in the UK. The first issue comes out on 1 October 1938 | 12 October 1960 | | Inejiro Asanuma (Chairman of Japan's Socialist Party) is assassinated in the Hibiya Hall in Tokyo by a right wing student. Yasushi Nagao, working for the Tokyo daily newspaper Mainichi photographs the stabbing. | 12 October 2004 |  | A complete bound set of The North American Indian including all of the text volumes and all of the photogravure portfolios by Edward Curtis sells for $1,416,000 with the buyer's premium included. This is the most expensive single auction lot for a photographic work up to that date. | 13 October 1860 |  | James Wallace Black took an aerial photograph of Boston, MA, USA. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1981 (1981.1229.4) | 21 October 1868 |  | Carleton E. Watkins photographs the destruction of the San Francisco earthquake that ruptured the Hayward fault at 7:53 AM local time. | 22 October 1962 |  | Cuban Missile Crisis | 23 October 1841 |  | The first Daguerreotype studio in Ireland opens in Dublin above "the Rotunda". It was probably under the auspices of Richard Beard but this is not certain. On 23rd April 1842 an advertisement appeared announcing that Le Chevalier Alexander Doussin Dubreuil had commenced practice at this address. | 24 October 1844 |  | Jules Itier (1802-1877) with the French customs service on a commercial mission to China takes what may be the earliest photographs of Macao [Macau] and wrote:
"I spent the last two days capturing the most interesting features of Macau on daguerreotype; the people on the streets respond with greatest kindness to all my demands, and many Chinese allowed photographs to be taken of them, but I had to show them the inside of the apparatus and the object reflected on the polished glass."
As the head of the French trade commission in China he takes a Daguerreotype of the signing of the Sino-French peace treaty. | 24 October 1929 | | Stock Market Crash (USA) | 25 October 1925 | | John Logie Baird transmits the first wireless photographic picture. | Births Walter Rosenblum (1919, 1 October - 2006, 23 January) John Claude White (1853, 1 October - 1918, 19 February) Eric Hosking (1909, 2 October - 1991) Annie Leibovitz (1949, 2 October - ) Wilhelm Mikhailovsky (1942, 2 October - ) John Pearson Nash (1828, 2 October - 1885, 17 August) Jules Aarons (1921, 3 October - 2008, 21 November) Jimmy Hare (1856, 3 October - 1946, 24 June) Bert Stern (1929, 3 October - 2013, 26 June) A.A. 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