1893 is signed, as the Kingdom of Siam cedes all of its territories east of the Mekong River to France, creating the territory of Laos. October 14 – According to a Japanese government official confirmed report, a devastating levee collapse, flash flood and landslide hit and damaged around Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island and western Honshū, due to a strong typhoon wind in Japan, an official document reports 2,044 people perished. October 16 – American sisters Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill copyright their book Song Stories for the Kindergarten including "Good Morning to All". The melody, by Mildred Hill, is later adapted, without authorization, by Robert H. Coleman as "Good Morning to You!", with the second stanza containing the words to "Happy Birthday to You", leading to a successful copyright lawsuit by the Hill sisters in 1934. October 23 – The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) is founded by Bulgarians, in the town of Thessaloniki. Its aim is to liberate the region of Macedonia from the Ottoman Turks. October 28 (October 16 O.S.) – In Saint Petersburg (Russia), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts the first performance of his Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Pathétique, nine days before his death. October 30 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, closes. November 7 – Colorado women are granted the right to vote. November 12 – The Durand Line is established as the boundary between British India and Afghanistan, by a memorandum of understanding signed by Sir Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan. November 15 – FC Basel Association football club is founded in Switzerland. November 16 – Athletic club Královské Vinohrady, later Sparta Prague, is founded. November 26 – Arthur Conan Doyle's story "The Adventure of the Final Problem", published in the December dated issue of The Strand Magazine and serialized in Sunday newspapers worldwide, surprises the reading public by revealing that his popular character Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at the Reichenbach Falls on May 4, 1891. December – Carl Anton Larsen becomes the first man to ski in Antarctica. December 4 – First Matabele War: The Shangani Patrol of British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated, by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors. December 5 – Plural voting is abolished in New South Wales. December 8 – In the United States, the National Education Association releases