Baseball Record
- Oct 14 Pirates beat Tigers, 5-4, forces 1st full 7 game world series
- Oct 16 Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
- Oct 16 Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series
- Oct 18 Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m
- Oct 24 Italy and Russia sign the Racconigi Pact in which both nations promise to support the status quo in the Balkans
- Oct 26 Itō Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, and former Japanese Prime Minister, shot and killed by Korean nationalist in Harbin, China