October 1, 1925 – SUI Student Induction Ceremony on the Pentacrest
October 1, 2023 – Coralville Sesquicentennial
October 2, 1850 – Joseph Fales & Charles Mason
October 2, 1860 – Iowa State Fair Comes To Iowa City
October 3, 2023 – Coralville – 150th Birthday, (2)
October 4, 1955 – M&M Railroad Locomotives
October 4, 2023 – Slazek National Hall Up For Sale
October 5, 1849 – Washington Monument Project
October 5, 2025 – Hummer’s Bell Returns
October 6, 1880 – Telephones Come To Iowa City
October 6, 1920 – SUI’s Hubbard Park
October 7, 1839 – Iowa City’s First Merchant License
October 7, 2023 – UI Alumni Marching Band
October 8, 1921 – SUI’s All-American – Duke Slater, (2)
October 9, 1839 – Iowa City’s First Hotel/Tavern
October 9, 1889 – Mildred W. Pelzer
October 10, 1912 – Metropolitan Hall Destroyed By Fire, (2)
October 11, 1844 – J.B. Newhall – Iowa’s First Celebrity
October 11, 1978 – Irving Weber’s Rock Island Railroad Memories
October 12, 1895 – SUI’s Iowa Field Hosts Its First Football Game
October 12, 1908 – UI Writers’ Workshop Paul Engle
October 13, 1905 – Iowa City’s T.C. Carson
October 13, 1910 – Captain Tom Baldwin & His Red Devil Airship
October 14, 1939 – Nile Kinnick’s Big Ten
October 14, 2023 – Meredith Willson on PBS
October 15, 2023 – Crossover at Kinnick
October 15, 2023 – Remembering Krysty
October 16, 1859 – Abolitionist John Brown
October 16, 1955 – Dixie C. Gebhardt – Designer of Iowa State Flag
October 17, 1866 – Steamboat Iowa City
October 17, 1922 – The Birth of Iowa City Radio – WSUI
October 18, 1890 – SUI’s First “Home” Football Game
October 18, 1907 – Thomas “Buster” Brown & his Nickeldom
October 19, 1929 – Iowa Stadium Dedication
October 19, 1985 – No.1 Iowa vs. No. 2 Michigan
October 20, 1951 – Meredith Willson’s Three Chimes of Silver
October 20, 1964 – President Herbert C. Hoover
October 21, 1816 – George F. Boller Arrives In America, (2)
October 22, 1932 – Ronald “Dutch” Reagan & Iowa Football
October 22, 1978 – The Minneapolis Tribune Story: Bill Sackter
October 23, 1840 – The Iowa Standard Newspaper
October 23, 1900 – Iowa City Historian – Herb Gartzke
October 24, 1804 – Iowa Judge Charles T. Mason
October 24, 1852 – Iowa’s 21st Governor George W. Clarke
October 25, 1958 – Meredith Willson Comes To Iowa Homecoming
October 25, 2025 – Iowa vs. Minnesota – 119th Meeting
October 26, 1846 – Iowa’s First State Election For Governor
October 26, 1990 – U.S.S. Iowa Decommissioned
October 27, 1904 – Iowa City Public Library
October 27, 2016 – Iowa City Press-Citizen Article On Henry L. Fisk
October 28, 1847 – A New Capital – Monroe City, Iowa?
October 28, 1915 – Bremers Golden Eagle – Iowa City
October 29, 1846 – Iowa’s First State Governor’s Election
October 29, 1916 – Iowa Football’s Frank “Kinney” Holbrook.
October 30, 1920 – The Last Iowa City Daily Citizen & Daily Press Issues
October 30, 2002 – KXIC’s Gene Claussen Dies
October 31, 1838 – Political Violence On The Streets of Burlington
October 31, 1863 – Burlington Street Bridge Collapse
October 31 – Halloween – Iowa City’s Black Angel
October 26, 2025 – Iowa City’s Black Angel
October 19, 2025 – No.1 Iowa vs. No. 2 Michigan
October 12, 2025 – SUI’s Iowa Field
October 5, 2025 – Hummer’s Bell
October 27, 2024 – Halftime Show 1958 – A Salute To The Music Man
October 20, 2024 – 1920 – SUI Yell Leaders – Iowa Field
October 13, 2024 – Captain Tom & His Red Devil Come To Iowa City
October 6, 2024 – Herky the Red-Tailed Hawk Appears on Campus
October 29, 2023 – Old Capitol Rehabilitation – Circa 1922
October 22, 2023 – November 17, 1910 – Iowa City Electric Railway
October 15, 2023 – Saving Iowa City’s Slezak National Hall
October 8, 2023 – A View of Iowa Avenue 1880s
October 1, 2023 – Old Capitol At Night – Circa 1920
