Sports History
Oct 1 Australian cricket batsman David Boon scores 114 during 1 wicket, 1st Test defeat v Pakistan in Karachi; his 19th Test century
- Oct 1 NHL owners begin lockout of players lasting 103 days; season shortened to 48 games instead of 84; players seek collective bargaining and owners a salary cap
- Oct 1 Oriental Pearl Tower, the modern symbol of Shanghai, is completed standing 468 m (1,536 feet) high (China's tallest structure until 2007)
Historic Event
Oct 1 South African President Nelson Mandela visits US
- Oct 1 Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Curacao
- Oct 2 "Show Boat" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC
- Oct 2 Pakistan cricket batsmen Inzamam-ul-Haq & Mushtaq Ahmed put on 57 runs in 8 overs for highest last-wicket partnership ever to win a Test, as the home team beats Australia by 1 wicket in the 1st Test in Karachi
- Oct 2 Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test
- Oct 3 Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil
Film & TV History
Oct 3 Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing "The Far Side" cartoon
- Oct 4 7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+
- Oct 4 Soyuz TM-20 launches
Country Music Association Awards
Oct 5 28th Country Music Association Award: Vince Gill & Pam Tillis wins
- Oct 5 52 members of Zonnetempel, murdered
Sports History
Oct 5 NBA shortens the 3-point distance to a uniform 22 feet in attempt to help offensive players score more; Michael Jordan sets career highs in 3-point attempts & converted 3-point field goals, nearly double previous statistics
- Oct 6 -9] European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria
- Oct 6 Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg, South Africa
- Oct 7 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Oct 7 Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan
- Oct 7 Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government
- Oct 7 Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57)
- Oct 8 6th College Football Holy War: Boston College beats Notre Dame 30-11 in Chestnut Hill
- Oct 8 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill
- Oct 9 Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right)
- Oct 10 Lt-general Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti
- Oct 10 MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings
- Oct 10 Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred G. Gilman & Martin Rodbell for G-protein discoveries
Sports History
Oct 10 NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor's #56
- Oct 10 Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar
- Oct 11 Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar
- Oct 11 Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), lands
- Oct 12 Contact with NASA Venus orbitter Magellan broken
- Oct 12 Iranian Fokker F28 explodes between Isfahan and Tehran, killing 66
- Oct 13 Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland v Tasmania)
- Oct 13 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe
- Oct 14 NASA Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus
Nobel Prize
Oct 14 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres
- Oct 15 Botswana President Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election
- Oct 15 President Jean-Baptiste Aristide returns to Haiti
- Oct 16 Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), suffers a stroke
- Oct 16 Shreveport Pirates win first Canadian Football League game, 24-12 at home to Sacramento Gold Miners; fold 1995
Music Concert
Oct 17 Billy Joel performs opening concert at Cleveland's Gund Arena
- Oct 19 160 killed in fighting in Tsjetsjenie (Chechnya)
- Oct 19 Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22
- Oct 21 Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes, 32+ die
- Oct 21 North Korea signs pact to end their nuclear projects
- Oct 22 "Philadelphia, Here I Come" closes at Criterion NYC after 52 performances
Historic Event
Oct 22 Statue of Sam Houston unveiled in Texas
Album Release
Oct 25 Reprise Records releases "Turbulent Indigo", Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's 15th studio album; wins Grammy Award for Best Pop Album
- Oct 25 Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjacked (she actually killed them)
- Oct 26 Jordan & Israel sign peace accord
- Oct 28 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time
- Oct 29 Antonov AN-12A crashes short of runway at Ust-Ilimsk Airport (Irkutsk, Russia), possibly due to icing; all 23 on board killed
- Oct 29 National Museum of American Indian joins the Smithsonian Institution and moves to the George Gustav Heye Center in Lower Manhattan (NYC) [1]
- Oct 29 NY Lotto pays $60 million+
Music Concert
Oct 29 Pink Floyd finishes their final concert tour with a show at Earls Court in London, England
- Oct 30 Leftist coalition wins Macedonian parliamentary election
- Oct 31 "Creep" single released by TLC – their 1st US No.1 (Billboard Song of the Year 1995)
- Oct 31 American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed
- Oct 31 American jam band Phish performs The Beatles "White Album" as a musical costume during a show at the Glens Falls Civic Center in Glens Falls, New York.
Sports History
Oct 31 American tennis star Venus Williams makes her professional debut as a 14 year old with a 6-3, 6-4 win over former NCAA champion and world No. 58 Shaun Stafford in the Bank of the West Classic in Oakland, California
