Oct 2, 1886

Calvin Robert Tubb is born in Bernice, Louisiana. He later has a son of his own: country singer Ernest Tubb

Oct 5, 1886

Having been distracted nearly a decade by work on electrical lighting systems, Thomas Edison returns to work on the phonograph, conducting his first experiment on a new model that records on a wax cylinder. His first model in 1877 had used tinfoil

Oct 25, 1886

Fiddlin' John Carson, while employed by a railroad construction company, shoots himself in the leg. He goes on to become the first "hillbilly" artist to play on the radio 36 years later