Green Bay dedicated new City Stadium, later renamed Lambeau Field, and the Packers beat the Bears 21-17. The frozen tundra has been sacred ground ever since.
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2 events,The Vulcan Street Plant on the Fox River in Appleton became the first Edison hydroelectric central station in the world. The electric age began right here in the Fox Valley. On September 30, 1854, Ojibwe leaders signed the second Treaty of La Pointe, establishing permanent Wisconsin reservations at Bad River, Red Cliff, Lac du Flambeau, and Lac Courte Oreilles. Tribal leaders insisted on permanent homelands, ending the removal era in the Lake Superior country. |
2 events,The first Wisconsin State Fair was held in Janesville, drawing thousands to celebrate the young state's farms and craftsmanship. The cream puffs came later. Caught in a Lake Michigan storm in 1848, Captain Justice Bailey steered his ship into an unknown harbor on the peninsula’s east shore. He found deep water and timber worth cutting, and within two years thousands of cords of wood were shipping out of the harbor that took his name. |
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NL Division Series Game 1 at American Family Field. Brewers won 3-2. TV: FS1. |
3 events,On October 4, 1842 at La Pointe on Madeline Island, the Ojibwe ceded the copper rich lands along Lake Superior, again reserving their rights to hunt and fish across the territory. The treaty opened the iron and copper ranges that built towns like Hurley.
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NL Division Series Game 2 at American Family Field. Brewers won 4-3 to take a 2-0 series lead. TV: FS1. |
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2 events,Greenville and the Town of Neenah organized in 1848, followed by Freedom in 1852, Harrison in 1853 under its first name of Lima, and Buchanan in 1858, named for the sitting president. With Clayton on the western edge, these farm towns became the fast growing backbone of the Fox Cities.
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NL Division Series Game 3 at Petco Park, San Diego. Padres won 4-3; Brewers lead the series 2-1. TV: FS1. |
2 events,NL Division Series Game 4 at Petco Park, San Diego. First pitch 9:00 PM Central. A Brewers win sends Milwaukee to the NLCS. TV: FS1. |
2 events,The deadliest wildfire in American history swept through Peshtigo, north of Green Bay, on the same night as the Great Chicago Fire. Wisconsin remembers the estimated 1,200 lives lost. |
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NL Division Series Game 5 at American Family Field, played only if the Padres win Game 4. First pitch 3:30 PM Central. TV: FS1. |
1 event,Lew Burdette shut out the Yankees in Game 7 and Milwaukee celebrated its first World Series championship. Hank Aaron hit .393 that October. |
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2 events,Blacksmith Otto Zachow and his brother in law William Besserdich built the Battleship in their Clintonville machine shop in 1908, the first successful four wheel drive car. Their FWD Auto Company put America’s army on four driven wheels in World War One, and heavy FWD trucks are still built in Clintonville today. |
1 event,High above the Strawberry Channel near Ephraim, keeper Henry Stanley lit the Eagle Bluff Lighthouse for the first time in the fall of 1868. The cream brick light still stands in Peninsula State Park and is one of Door County’s most photographed landmarks. |
2 events,Flying the Bell X-1 over the Mojave Desert, Captain Chuck Yeager became the first human to fly faster than sound. |
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1 event,On October 20, 1949 Louis Spray pulled a 69 pound 11 ounce muskellunge from the Chippewa Flowage near Hayward. The catch still stands atop the record books and helped make Hayward the muskie fishing capital of the world, giant fiberglass fish and all. |
3 events,Thomas Edison achieved his first long lasting incandescent light bulb at Menlo Park, New Jersey, burning over 13 hours. Named for the paired canal locks that lifted boats past the Fox River rapids, Combined Locks incorporated in 1920. The smallest of the Fox Cities remains a quiet riverside village with a big papermaking history. |
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2 events,Governor Lewis Cass of the Michigan Territory organized Brown County in October 1818, one of Wisconsin’s two original counties. It once stretched across the entire eastern half of the future state, from the Illinois line to the tip of the Door Peninsula. |
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3 events,President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, a gift from France and an enduring symbol of American freedom. In October 1893, prankster and timber cruiser Eugene Shepard unveiled the Hodag, a horned, spike backed beast he claimed to have cornered in the swamps near Rhinelander. The Smithsonian eventually forced a confession, but the Hodag won anyway: it is Rhinelander’s beloved mascot to this day. |
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4 events,The world's most famous escape artist, raised in Appleton, Wisconsin, died on Halloween. Magicians still honor him every October 31. |
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