- Oct 3 Modoc tribe Chief Kintpuash (also known as Captain Jack), the only Native American leader ever charged with war crimes, hanged by US Army at Fort Klamath, Oregon
British Golf Open
Oct 4 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Scotsman Tom Kidd beats countryman Jamie Anderson by 1 stroke; first Open not held at Prestwick GC
- Oct 4 Toronto Argonauts Football Club (CFL) forms as Argonaut Rowing Club rugby-football squad; oldest existing pro sports team in North America still using original name
- Oct 8 First women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute
- Oct 11 Toronto Argonaut Football Club 1st game losing to U of Toronto
- Oct 18 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts & Hamilton Tigers
- Oct 18 Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football
Bruckner's Symphony No. 2
Oct 26 Anton Bruckner leads the Vienna Philharmonic in the premiere of his "Symphony No. 2"
Greatest Show on Earth
Oct 30 P. T. Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth", debuts (New York City)
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