October

1 October 1898 -- Storyville Becomes New Orleans Legal Red Light District

“New Orleans Blues” -- Jelly Roll Morton
“Basin Street Blues” -- Louis Armstrong

4 October 1974 -- Suicide of Anne Sexton
“Mercy Street” -- Peter Gabriel

7 October 1879 to 19 November 1915 -- Life, Deeds, and Execution of Joe Hill

“The Ballad of Joe Hill”

10 October 1945 -- Allied Control Council Bans Nazi Party and Begins Policy of Denazification

“The ‘I Was Not a Nazi’ Polka” -- The Chad Mitchell Trio

10 October 1968 -- Barbarella Released

"Barbarella" -- The Glitterhouse

“Her Strut” -- Bob Seger

11 October 1962 to 8 December 1965 -- Second Vatican Ecumenical Council

“The Vatican Rag” -- Tom Lehrer

14 October 1926 -- Winnie-the-Pooh Published

“Return To Pooh Corner” -- Kenny Loggins

15 October 1844 -- Birth of Friedrich Nietzsche

Also sprach Zarathustra -- Richard Strauss

16 to 28 October 1962 -- Cuban Missile Crisis

"Do You Hear What I Hear?"  -- Robert Goulet (Lyrics by Noël Regney, Music by Gloria Shayne Baker)

24 October 1929 -- Black Thursday
“Anything Goes” -- Cole Porter

31 October -- Traditional Date for the First Bottling and Sale of Young Madeira Wine

“Have Some Madeira M'dear” -- Limeliters (Michael Flanders, Lyrics, and Donald Swann, Music)

31 October -- Halloween

"The Bodies, The Zombies!" -- Mal Blum