Events in History
- Oct 1 Concorde 001 jet airplane test flight breaks sound barrier
- Oct 1 Guernsey & Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps
- Oct 1 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Oct 2 US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
- Oct 4 Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Brooklyn Myrtle Beach
- Oct 4 UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
- Oct 8 The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois.
- Oct 11 -28] Rome: 2nd bishop synod
- Oct 11 Three people shot dead during street violence in the loyalist Shankill area of Belfast
- Oct 12 1st time 5 people in space simultaneously (Soyez 6 & Soyez 7)
- Oct 12 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara, California changes call letters to KAPN
- Oct 12 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 7 is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan
- Oct 13 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 8 is launched
- Oct 14 Palme government forms in Sweden
- Oct 14 Race riots in Springfield, Massachusetts
- Oct 14 The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of currency decimalisation in 1971
- Oct 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Oct 15 Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
- Oct 15 Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war
- Oct 16 Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
- Oct 17 NY Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY
- Oct 17 Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK
- Oct 17 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
- Oct 18 Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners
- Oct 18 Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kanter arrested for marijuana possession
- Oct 18 Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
- Oct 19 Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21)
- Oct 21 Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
Election of Interest
Oct 21 German statesman Willy Brandt is elected chancellor of West Germany (1969-1974)
Event of Interest
Oct 27 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader's Raiders
Birthdays in History
- Oct 1 Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza, Mexican murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
- Oct 10 Ben Crump, American civil rights attorney (Breonna Taylor, George Floyd), born in Lumberton, North Carolina
- Oct 11 Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, youngest son of Queen Beatrix and Claus von Amsberg, born in Utrecht, Netherlands
- Oct 11 Ty Murray, American rodeo cowboy (5-time all-around world champion), born in Phoenix, Arizona
- Oct 16 Gregory Metcalf, Ellensburg Wash, 3k steeplechase
- Oct 19 DJ Sammy [Samuel Bouriah], Spanish DJ, born in Mallorca
- Oct 19 John Edward, American TV Psychic, born in Glen Cove, New York
- Oct 19 Pedro Castillo, Peruvian teacher, union leader and politician (President of Peru 2021-22), born in Puña,, Peru
- Oct 29 Matthew Whitaker, American lawyer and politician (Acting Attorney General, Nov. 2018-Feb. 2019), born in Des Moines, Iowa
Deaths in History
- Oct 2 Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian novelist (Black Opal), dies at 85
- Oct 12 Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French abstract painter and guiatrist, dies at 69
- Oct 15 Abdirashid Shermake, President of Somali Republic, shot by one of his bodyguards at 50
- Oct 21 Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (Sierpinski triangle), dies at 87
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