Events in History
- 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)
Event of Interest
Oct 1 South African President Nelson Mandela visits US
- Oct 1 Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Curacao
- Oct 2 Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test
- Oct 3 Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil
- Oct 4 7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+
- Oct 4 Soyuz TM-20 launches
- Oct 5 52 members of Zonnetempel, murdered
- 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 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 Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred G. Gilman & Martin Rodbell for G-protein discoveries
- 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 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 Shreveport Pirates win first Canadian Football League game, 24-12 at home to Sacramento Gold Miners; fold 1995
- 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
Event of Interest
Oct 22 Statue of Sam Houston unveiled in Texas
- Oct 24 Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka, 55+ killed
- 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+
- Oct 30 Leftist coalition wins Macedonian parliamentary election
- Oct 31 American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed
Deaths in History
- Oct 1 Carlos Lleras Restrepo, President of Colombia (1966-70), dies at 86
- Oct 1 Karoli Ruth Needles, painter, dies at 54
- Oct 1 Paul Lorenzen, German philosopher (b. 1915)
- Oct 2 Faith Davis, American triplets, world's oldest surviving triplets (Charity & Hope survive), dies at 95
- Oct 2 Ron Herron, English architect (Archigram), dies at 64
- Oct 4 F. Gwendolen Rees, Welsh zoologist and parasitologist, dies at 88
- Oct 7 James Hill, director, dies at 75
- Oct 7 Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
- Oct 8 Brian Hartley, British mathematician, dies at 55
- Oct 8 Manual Pina, Spanish fashion Designer, dies at 50
- Oct 10 Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95
- Oct 10 Chaim Raphael, English Jewish scholar and writer, dies at 86
- Oct 10 Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist, dies at 74
- Oct 11 Nic Jonk, sculptor/painter (Nereus on Zeepaard), dies at 66
- Oct 12 Gérald Godin, French Canadian poet and politician, dies at 55
- Oct 15 Karl Edward Wagner, American sci-fi author (Bloodstone, Night Winds), dies at 48
- Oct 15 Sarah Kofman, French philosopher, dies at 60
- Oct 17 Dmitri Cholodov, Russian journalist, murdered at 27
- Oct 17 Rik van Bentum, painter/art director of Paradiso, dies at 57
- Oct 18 Richard A. Garland, artist and photographer, dies at 60
- Oct 19 Munavarsjo Nazrijev, vice-president of Tadzjikistan, dies
- Oct 19 Oldrich Cernik, Czechoslovakia premier (1968-70), dies at 72
- Oct 19 Stanislaw Brunstein, Polish-British artist who specialized in images of the lost world of Jewish Poland, dies at 79
- Oct 20 (Charles) Robert Medley, English abstract and figurative style painter, dies at 88
- Oct 20 Francis Steegmuller, American biographer (Cocteau), dies at 88
- Oct 20 Ivan Sviták, Czech philosopher and poet, dies at 69
- Oct 21 Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist, dies at 85
- Oct 21 Jerome Bert Weisner, military Scientist/Disarmer, dies at 79
- Oct 22 Chester WIlliams, painter, dies at 73
- Oct 22 Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies
- Oct 22 Harold Horace Hopkins, British physicist and inventor (Endoscope), dies at 75
- Oct 22 Rollo May, American psychologist (Love & Will), dies at 85
- Oct 22 Sandy Horn, lesbian Activist, dies at 59
- Oct 22 William Frankena, American philosopher, dies at 86
- Oct 24 Alexandr Nikolaievich Shelepin, dir of KGB (1958-61), dies
- Oct 24 Gamini Dissanayake, Sri Lankain presidential candidate, murdered
- Oct 25 Anthony David Machell Cox, medievalist, dies at 81
- Oct 28 Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies
- Oct 29 Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer (Picture Page; Dressing Up), dies at 84
- Oct 30 Nyanaponika [Siegmund Feniger], German scholar/author, dies at 93
- Oct 31 John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian and director of British Museum (1974-76), dies at 80
- Oct 31 William John Readings, literary theorist, dies at 34
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