October 1991 in History

Events in 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 Bush declares "total confidence" in nominee Clarence Thomas
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 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart seen soliciting a prostitute
Oct 12 Professional wrestler Rip is Oliver forced to retire after being injured by Crush
Oct 12 Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN

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

Oct 15 Clarence Thomas is confirmed as a US Supreme Court Justice (52-48)
Oct 16 George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas
Oct 16 Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
Oct 16 US Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case
Oct 17 News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discussing her having a disformed baby
Oct 18 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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 23 Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine assists 2 women to commit suicide

Oct 23 Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan
Oct 26 Evan Gershkovich, American journalist (1st American journalist arrested for spying in Russia since the Cold War), born in New York City
Oct 29 Parris Goebel, New Zealand dancer and choreographer (Savage x Fenty shows), born in Auckland, New Zealand

Oct 2 Dimitrios I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1973-91), dies at 77
Oct 2 Jan H Christianse, political chairman (CDA), dies
Oct 3 Max Cantor, journalist, dies
Oct 4 Leonard C. Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83
Oct 6 Lincoln Demyan, dies at 66
Oct 6 Wendell Phillips, dies at 83 [or 10/13]
Oct 8 Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75
Oct 10 Stephen J Falat, dies after long illness at 34
Oct 11 Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (b. 1950)
Oct 12 Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky, Soviet-Russian sci-fi author (Tale of the Troika), dies at 66
Oct 13 Daniel Oduber Quiros, president of Costa Rica (1974-1978), dies at 70
Oct 15 Hotze de Roos, Dutch carpenter and writer (Chameleon series), dies at 81
Oct 23 Lance Baker, dies at 31
Oct 24 Leon Clements, journalist (Interlijnen), dies at 43
Oct 26 Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella
Oct 27 George Barker, English poet, dies at 78

Oct 27 Pyke Koch, Dutch magic realism painter (Dolores' Breakfast), dies at 90
Oct 28 Dudley McConnell, American space scientist, headed NASA's Earth Science Division, dies at 55
Oct 28 Lydia Hodson Copeland, America's Jr Miss (1972), dies at 37
Oct 29 Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of a heart attack at 60
Oct 29 Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies
Oct 29 Mario Scelba, Prime Minister of Italia (1954-55), dies
Oct 30 Johan Mekkink, painter, dies
Oct 30 Ken Hardin, producer, dies at 62
Oct 31 Joseph Papp, Broadway producer (A Chorus Line), dies of cancer at 70