Events in History
Ostankino Tower
Oct 3 Battle at TV station Ostankino, Moscow townhall, about 25 killed
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Event of Interest
Oct 3 Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow
Boris Yeltsin
- Oct 3 Harry Belafonte performs in Tivoli Copenhagen
- Oct 3 Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 US Rangers
- Oct 3 Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
- Oct 4 Troops of President Boris Yeltsin occupy Russian White House (parliament)
- Oct 5 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
Vladimir Lenin
Nobel Prize
Oct 7 Nobel prize for literature awarded to American writer Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
Historic Publication
Oct 8 Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts"
Howard Stern
- Oct 8 UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
- Oct 10 Browns Najee Mustafaa sets club rec for longest interception (97 yds)
- Oct 10 Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed
- Oct 11 Norwegian Rushdie publisher William Nygaard injured in attack
- Oct 11 US warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti
- Oct 13 Greek government of Papandreou forms
- Oct 13 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis & Michael Smith
- Oct 13 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse & Joseph Taylor
- Oct 15 Amstel brewery on Curacao produces 1,000,000,000th bottle
Nobel Prize
Oct 15 Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Nelson Mandela
F. W. de Klerk
Event of Interest
Oct 16 General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president
Omar al-Bashir
- Oct 16 IRA bomb attack on fish & chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed
- Oct 16 Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters
- Oct 18 STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit
- Oct 19 UN authorizes arms, military and police supply embargo against Haiti
- Oct 21 Military coup by Burundi President Ndadaye; 525,000 Hutus flee
- Oct 22 Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov makes record 9th space walk
- Oct 23 Seven people killed by IRA bomb attack in Belfast
- Oct 23 Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara in Indian-controlled Kashmir
- Oct 25 Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead
- Oct 25 Canada Liberal Party and Bloc Québécois wins parliamentary election
- Oct 27 Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcasting in El Paso Texas
- Oct 28 Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99-years
- Oct 28 Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns
- Oct 29 Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86
- Oct 31 German unemployment hits national record of 3.5 million
Birthdays in History
- Oct 13 Tiffany Trump, daughter of Donald Trump & Marla Maples, born in West Palm Beach, Florida
Weddings in History
Divorces in History
- Oct 15 Guardian Angel Lisa Evers Sliwa files for divorce from Curtis Sliwa
Deaths in History
- Oct 2 Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), dies at 83
- Oct 3 Johan Scheps, Dutch politician (Social Democratic), dies at 93
- Oct 3 Sgt. First Class Randy Shughart, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 35
- Oct 3 Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 33
- Oct 4 Fran Carlon, dies of cancer at 80
- Oct 5 Karl G Henize, astronaut (STS 51-F), dies of heart failure at 66
- Oct 6 Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot, committed suicide at 44
- Oct 10 Djillali Belkhenchir, Algerian doctor, murdered at 52
- Oct 10 Owen Saunders, English mathematician and mechanical engineer, dies at 89
- Oct 14 Guy Malary, Haitian lawyer/minister of Justice, murdered at 50
- Oct 14 Mustafa Abada, Algerian TV director, murdered
- Oct 16 John Bowles, president (Rexall Drugs), dies at 76
- Oct 17 Frank J Del Giudice, US industrial designer (Boeing 747), dies at 77
- Oct 17 Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologist/antifascist, dies at 84
- Oct 17 Wim van Dooren, theologist/humanist/philosopher, dies
- Oct 18 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered at 63
- Oct 18 Smail Yefsah, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 31
- Oct 19 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered
- Oct 19 Jack Roy Armstrong, English historian (Traditional buildings), dies at 91
- Oct 20 Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
- Oct 21 Assad Saftawi, Palestinian co-founder of al-Fatah, murdered at 58
- Oct 21 Melchior Ndadaye, 1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murdered at 40
- Oct 21 Sam Zolotow, US theater critic (NY Times), dies at 94
- Oct 21 Scott Heiser, US photographer (Interview), dies at 44
- Oct 21 James Leo Herlihy, American novelist (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66
- Oct 22 Elie A Cohen, physician (held in Auschwitz), dies at 84
- Oct 22 Fred C Shapiro, American journalist (Tiananmen-square 1989), dies at 62
- Oct 22 Jiří Hájek, Czech politician and diplomat, dies at 80
- Oct 24 Ben Scholtens, historian (Gaama Duumi), murdered at 39
- Oct 24 Desmond Nuttall, English theorist, dies at 49
- Oct 25 Francisco Velis, El Salvador guerilla leader (FMLN), murdered
- Oct 25 Mary C Lawton, jurist (CIA's Agency Seal Medallion), dies at 58
- Oct 25 Philip P. Cohen, American medical researcher, dies at 85
- Oct 25 Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 54
- Oct 26 Absolutely Nobody, [David Powers], Wash lt-gov candidate, dies at 37
- Oct 26 H Hardenberg, writer, dies
- Oct 28 Carmino Baelen, Belgian sleder, dies at 22
- Oct 28 Doris Duke, heiress (American Tobacco Co), dies at 80
- Oct 29 Raymond Lockhart, TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report), dies at 65
- Oct 30 Hernan Heleno Castro, El Salvadorian guerilla leader, murdered
- Oct 30 Paul Grégoire, French Canadian Archbishop of Montreal, dies at 82
- Oct 31 Adriaan Venema, Dutch journalist/art dealer, commits suicide at 52
- Oct 31 Edwin A Walker, US Maj-Gen, dies of lung cancer at 84