Historical Events
- Oct 4 First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
The Orient Express
Oct 4 The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul
- Oct 11 US and Canadian railroads agree to use of five time-zone system for North America, based on the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Oct 15 US Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
- Oct 20 Max Bruch's "Kol Nidre" 1st performed
- Oct 20 Treaty of Ancon; Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile
- Oct 22 1st NY Horse Show held (Madison Sq Garden)
NY's Metropolitan Opera House Opens
Oct 22 New York's original Metropolitan Opera House has its grand opening with a performance of Charles Gounod's opera "Faust"
- Oct 30 Austria-Hungary, Germany and Romania sign military treaty
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 5 Charles Maduro, Antillean composer, born in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles (d. 1947)
- Oct 8 Dick Burnett, American musician ("Man of Constant Sorrow"), born in Monticello, Kentucky (d. 1977)
- Oct 8 Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician (Nobel-1931), born in Freiburg, Baden, Germany (d. 1970)
- Oct 11 Archibald T Davison, American musicologist and composer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1961)
- Oct 16 Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek-American actress (The Exorcist), born in Athens, Greece (d. 1973)
- Oct 16 Will Harridge, American Baseball HOF executive (President American League 1931-59), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1971)
- Oct 22 Adolph Joffe, Russian Communist revolutionary and writer (Brest-Litovsk), born in Simferopol, Russian Empire (d. 1927)
- Oct 22 Viktor Jacobi, Hungarian operetta composer (Szibill), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1921)
- Oct 26 Napoleon Hill, American writer and philosopher (Think and Grow Rich), born in Pound, Virginia (d. 1970)
- Oct 26 Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (Olympic gold 1904, 06), born in New York City (d. 1958)
Anthony Wilding (1883-1915)
Oct 31 New Zealand tennis player (Wimbledon 1910-13), born in Christchurch, New Zealand
- Oct 31 Marie Laurencin, French painter, born in Paris (d. 1956)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 2 Joshua Ratoon Sands, American Rear Admiral (Union Navy), dies at 88
- Oct 5 Joachim Barrande, French paleontologist and geologist (fossils in Bohemia, opposed Darwin's Theory of Evolution), dies at 84
- Oct 15 Francesco Schira, Maltese-born composer, dies at 74
- Oct 22 George Coulthard, Australian rules footballer (Victoria; Carlton FC) and cricket all-rounder (1 Test; Victoria CA), dies from tuberculosis at 27
- Oct 22 Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (The Headless Horseman), dies at 65
- Oct 29 Robert Volkmann, German composer and pedagogue, dies at 68
- Oct 30 Johann Vesque von Püttlingen, Austrian lawyer and composer, dies at 80
- Oct 31 Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj
