Historical Events in October 1991

Oct 2 Eric Lindros refuses to sign with Quebec Nordiques

Oct 2 Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 professional tennis matches

Oct 2 Toronto Blue Jays clinches AL East title & becomes 1st team to draw 4 million fans

Oct 3 25th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks, Tanya Tucker & Vince Gill wins

Oct 4 NHL NY Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier

Oct 4 San Jose Sharks lose 4-3 to Vancouver Canucks in their 1st NHL game
Oct 4 Whiteland Janice, driven by Mike Lachance, wins Kentucky Futurity
Oct 4 The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
Oct 5 Military transport plane crashes at Jakarta, 133 dies
Oct 5 NJ Devils begin their 10th Anniversary with a 7-2 win over the Blues
Oct 5 USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal
Oct 5 Carlos Huerta's NCAA record streak of successful points after a touchdown ends at 157
Oct 5 Fresno State ties NCAA record with 49 points in a quarter, as they route New Mexico 94-17
Oct 5 The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
Oct 6 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Daikyo World Golf Championship
Oct 6 NY Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies
Oct 6 Orioles' last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers)
Oct 7 Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics
Oct 7 Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal & Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in NY thoroughbred racing history
Oct 7 Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments to her
Oct 8 The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia
Oct 9 "On Borrowed Time" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 99 performances

Oct 9 Bush declares "total confidence" in nominee Clarence Thomas
Oct 9 San Jose Sharks beat Calgary for their 1st NHL win, 4-3
Oct 9 Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
Oct 10 Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
Oct 10 Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy
Oct 10 US cuts all foreign aid to Haiti
Oct 11 Law Professor Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her
Oct 11 Chip Beck ties PGA record lowest 18 hole score of 59 during 3rd round of the Las Vegas Invitational at the Sunrise GC
Oct 11 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart seen soliciting a prostitute
Oct 12 Boxer Hector Comacho arrested for driving while getting oral sex
Oct 12 Mike Lerch of Princeton ties NCAA record with 370 receiving yards
Oct 12 Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN
Oct 12 Wrestler Rip Oliver forced to retire after being injured by Crush
Oct 12 Doug Flutie of BC Lions sets CFL passing record of 582 yards despite losing to Edmonton 45-38 in overtime
Oct 13 Blue Jay Cito Gaston is 1st manager ejected in a playoff game
Oct 13 Minnesota Twins win AL pennant beating Toronto in 5 games
Oct 13 MLB American League Championship: Minnesota Twins beat Toronto Blue Jays, 4 games to 1

Oct 14 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 14 NY Rangers right wing Mike Gartner scores his 500th NHL goal

Oct 15 Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (52-48)
Oct 16 George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas
Oct 16 US Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case
Oct 16 Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the league's anti-drug agreement
Oct 16 Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
Oct 17 Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races

Oct 17 News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby

Oct 17 Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals & 744 assists)

Oct 17 MLB National League Championship: Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 4 games to 3
Oct 17 Blue Man Group's 1st performance in New York City
Oct 18 "Most Happy Fella" closes at NY State Theater NYC
Oct 18 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Oct 18 "My Own Private Idaho" directed and written by Gus van Sant starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves is released

Oct 19 Longest NCAA football game (3:52) as RI beats Maine 52-30 (6 OTs)
Oct 19 Lonnie Glieberman purchased Ottawa Rough Riders from CFL
Oct 20 "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 9 performances
Oct 20 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die
Oct 20 Formal opening ceremony of Intl One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colo
Oct 21 24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif

Oct 21 Former California Governor Jerry Brown announces his run for the US Presidency

Oct 21 US hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut
Oct 22 General Motors announces 9 month loss of $US2.2 billion
Oct 23 "Les Miserables" opens at Mogador Theatre, Paris
Oct 23 Clarence Thomas sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
Oct 23 Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women
Oct 24 "Dancing at Lughnasa" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 421 performances
Oct 24 Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders
Oct 25 Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs v India in cricket 1-dayer at Sharjah
Oct 27 "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 9 performances
Oct 27 "Homecoming" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 49 performances
Oct 27 John Brodie wins Security Pacific Senior Golf Classic
Oct 27 Minnesota Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win World Series in 7
Oct 29 Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as NY Yankee manager
Oct 30 Colombian government negotiate with M-19-guerrilla
Oct 30 Mark Sauer becomes CEO of Pittsburgh Pirates
Oct 30 Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain
Oct 31 Palestinians attend US mideast peace talks in Madrid