Historical Events
- Oct 4 Dmitri Sjostakovitch 1st Cello concert premieres in Leningrad
- Oct 4 LA Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394
- Oct 4 Netherlands beats Belgium 9-1
- Oct 4 USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
- Oct 6 Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
- Oct 6 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
- Oct 7 "Happy Town" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances
Far Side of the Moon Revealed
Oct 7 Far side of Moon seen for the 1st time, courtesy of USSR's Luna 3 space probe
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Film Release
Event of Interest
Oct 9 Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England
Lee Harvey Oswald
- Oct 10 "Happy Town" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 5 performances
- Oct 10 Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
- Oct 10 Pan Am begins regular flights around the world
- Oct 11 KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Oct 12 At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
- Oct 14 WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Oct 15 "Untouchables" premieres
- Oct 15 KNDO TV channel 23 in Yakima, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Oct 17 "Billy Barnes Revue" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 87 performances
- Oct 17 Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
- Oct 17 Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' dedicated
- Oct 19 Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel
- Oct 19 William Gibson's "Miracle Worker" premieres in NYC
- Oct 20 Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise
- Oct 20 WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville, MS (ABC) 1st broadcast
- Oct 21 Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
Event of Interest
Oct 21 Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York
Frank Lloyd Wright
- Oct 21 Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in KC & NY
- Oct 22 Bob Merrill's musical "Take Me Along" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 448 performances
- Oct 23 Chinese troops move into India, 17 die
- Oct 24 US premier of D Sjostakovitch's 1st Cello concert
- Oct 27 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
- Oct 28 Buffalo Bills enter AFL
- Oct 28 Jean Genet's "Les Negres" premieres in Paris
- Oct 29 10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced
Historic Publication
Oct 29 "Asterix" is first published in the French magazine "Pilote" by Rene Goscinny, illustrated by Albert Uderzo
René Goscinny
Albert Uderzo
- Oct 31 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to USA
- Oct 31 USSR & Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 1 Youssou N'dour, Senegalese singer (Shaking the tree)
- Oct 3 Carmen Russo, Miss Teenage Italy (1972), born in Genoa, Italy
- Oct 3 Frederick Stephen Couples, PGA golfer (1983 Kemper Open), born in Seattle, Washington
- Oct 3 Jack Wagner, American singer and actor (General Hospital, Melrose Place), born in Washington, Missouri
- Oct 3 Greg Proops, American actor and comedian
Fred Couples
Oct 3 Fred Couples, American golfer and Masters Champion (1992), born in Seattle, Washington
Fred Couples
- Oct 4 Tony Meo, English billiards champion (snookers)
- Oct 4 Chris Lowe, English rock keyboardist (One Under The Eight, Pet Shop Boys), born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England
- Oct 5 Troy Luccketta, rock drummer (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
- Oct 5 Maya Lin, American designer (Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Civil Rights Memorial), born in Athens, Ohio
- Oct 6 John Mackin, programmer
- Oct 6 Robyn Maher, Australian basketball guard (Olympic bronze 1996)
- Oct 6 Walter Ray Williams Jr, bowler (twice Player of the Year)
- Oct 6 [Dennis Ray] "Oil Can" Boyd, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
- Oct 6 Brian Higgins, American politician, Member of US House of Representatives
- Oct 7 Penny Graeber, Australian golfer (1990 6th Vic Open), born in Sydney, New South Wales
- Oct 7 Dylan Baker, American character actor
Simon Cowell
Oct 7 Simon Cowell, English recording executive and television producer (X-Factor, American Idol), born in London
Simon Cowell
- Oct 7 Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician
- Oct 7 Jean-Marc Fournier, French-Canadian politician
- Oct 8 Carlos I Noriega, astronaut (STS 84, sk 97), born in Lima, Peru
- Oct 8 Gavin Friday, [Fionan Hanvey], Irish singer (Virgin Prunes)
- Oct 8 Mike Morgan, Tulare CA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
- Oct 8 Tony Eason, football quarterback (New England Patriots)
- Oct 8 Nick Bakay, American actor
- Oct 9 Mike Singletary, NFL middle linebacker (Chicago Bears)
- Oct 9 Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician, born in Sochi, Soviet Union (assassinated 2015)
- Oct 10 Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
- Oct 10 Bradley Whitford, American actor
- Oct 11 Bob Inglis, (Rep-R-South Carolina)
- Oct 11 Michiel Schapers, Netherlands, tennis star
- Oct 12 Abigail Kingsley Alling, American executive (Biosphere 2), born in NYC, New York
- Oct 12 Anna Escobedo Cabral, 42nd Treasurer of the United States
- Oct 13 Marie Osmond, singer/actress (Paper Roses, Goin' Coconuts), born in Ogden, Utah
- Oct 14 A J Pero, American drummer (Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It), born in Staten Island, New York
- Oct 15 Sarah Magaret Fergusson, [Fergie], Duchess of York, born in London, England
- Oct 15 Emeril Lagasse, American chef (Emeril Live), born in Fall River, Massachusetts
- Oct 15 Todd Solondz, American film director
- Oct 16 Gary Kemp, rock guitarist (Spandau Ballet-True), born in London, England
- Oct 16 Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
- Oct 17 Dolph Lundgren, actor (Rocky 4, Masters of Universe) [or Nov 3]
- Oct 17 Ron Drummond, American writer
- Oct 17 Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
- Oct 17 Richard Roeper, American columnist and film critic, born in Chicago, Illinois
- Oct 17 Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian
- Oct 18 Kirby Chambliss, Aerobatic pilot and Red Bull Air Racer
- Oct 18 Milčo Mančevski, Macedonian film director and screenwriter
- Oct 18 John Nord, former American pro wrestler
- Oct 18 Steve Swayne, Dartmouth Professor
- Oct 20 Janice McCaffrey, Etobicoke Ontario, 10k walker (Olympics 25-92, 96)
- Oct 20 Razor Ramon, [Scott Hall], wrestler (WWF/WCW/NWA/Florida/AWA/KC)
- Oct 21 George Bell, Dom Rep, outfielder (Blue Jays, 1987 AL MVP)
- Oct 21 Tony Ganios, American Actor
- Oct 21 Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
- Oct 22 Todd Graff, American actor (Five Corners, Dominic & Eugene), born in NYC, New York
- Oct 22 Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (d. 2005)
- Oct 22 Marc Shaiman, American composer
Weird Al Yankovic
Oct 23 Weird Al Yankovic [Alfred Matthew], American parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun), born in Downey, California
Weird Al Yankovic
- Oct 23 Sam Raimi, actor (Indian Summer, Thou Shalt Not Kill Except)
- Oct 26 Evo Morales, Bolivian politician and 80th President of Bolivia (2006-present), born in Isallawi, Bolivia
- Oct 26 François Chau, Cambodian actor, born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Oct 26 Brian Bovell, British actor, born in London
- Oct 28 Neville Henry, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
- Oct 29 Finola Hughes, actress (Anna-General Hospital, Staying Alive), born in London, England
- Oct 29 Jesse Barfield, Ill, outfielder (Blue Jays, Yankees, 1986 HR leader)
Mike Gartner
Oct 29 Mike Gartner, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs), born in Ottawa, Ontario
Mike Gartner
Famous Deaths
- Oct 3 William Bishop, American actor (Black Eagle, Adventures in Silverado, It's a Great Life), dies of cancer at 42
- Oct 6 Bernard Berenson, American art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance), dies at 94
- Oct 7 Mario Lanza [Alfredo Arnold Cocozza], Italian-American actor and singer (Great Caruso, Toast of New Orleans), dies of a heart attack at 38
- Oct 10 Prince Friedrich Aloys Johannes Maria, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania, dies at 88
- Oct 11 Bert Bell, NFL hall of famer, dies at 64
- Oct 12 Arnoldt Bronnen, writer, dies at 63
- Oct 13 Rudolf Mengelberg, Dutch composer and musicologist (Concert Amsterdam), dies at 67
- Oct 14 Errol Flynn, Australian actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood), dies of a heart attack at 50
- Oct 15 Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1880)
George Marshall
Oct 16 George Marshall, US army general, dies at 78
George Marshall
- Oct 18 Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
- Oct 19 Boughera El Quafi, marathoner (Olympic gold 1928), shot to death at 60
- Oct 19 Stanley Bate, composer, dies at 45
- Oct 20 Werner Krauss, German actor (Joyless Street), dies at 75 (b. 1884)
- Oct 23 Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
- Oct 25 Bob Murphy, TV host (RFD America), dies at 42
- Oct 28 Abe Waddington, cricketer (Yorks left-arm quick, Test avg 119), dies
- Oct 28 Egon Kornauth, composer, dies at 68
- Oct 28 Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
- Oct 30 Blonde Dolly [Sybille A J Niemans], Dutch prostitute, murdered at 33
- Oct 31 Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)