- Oct 2 Cheniere Caminada hurricane (Great October Storm) - 3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 in Louisiana (one of the 1st to be classified as a category 4 storm)
- Oct 6 Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat
- Oct 13 Vigilant (US) beats Valkyrie II (UK) in 9th America's Cup, in New York
- Oct 14 George Edwarde's "Gaiety Girl" premieres in London
- Oct 14 Harry Wright suggests umps keep ball-strike count a secret
- Oct 23 C. Dazey's "In Old Kentucky" premieres in NYC (27 seasons)
- Oct 25 Battle of Shangani, Matabeleland: Dr Jameson beats Ndebeles
- Oct 27 Hurricane hits coast between Savannah, Georgia & Charleston, South Carlolina
Pathetique
Oct 28 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts first performance of his Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique", in St. Petersburg, Russia, 9 days before his death
- Oct 30 US Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
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