Events in History
- Oct 1 Bermuda begins using new area code 441
- Oct 3 1st first-class match at Hurstville Oval, Sydney (NSW vs Western Australia)
- Oct 6 51 Pegasi discovered as the first major star, apart from the Sun, to have a planet orbiting around it
- Oct 6 BPAA US Women's Open won by Cheryl Daniels
- Oct 10 Israel begins West Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
- Oct 10 Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
- Oct 10 Robert E Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics
- Oct 11 John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches
- Oct 13 Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Polish physicist Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, for their work to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons
- Oct 16 Allan Donald takes 8-71 as South Africa defeat Zimbabwe
- Oct 16 Million Man March held in Washington, D.C. (over 830,000 African American men attend)
- Oct 16 ODI in Sharjah WI 7-333 in 50 overs beat Sri Lanka 329 all out
- Oct 17 Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000
- Oct 20 Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final
- Oct 20 STS 73 (Columbia 18) launches into orbit
- Oct 21 Addison Vance, 18, of Hickory NC, crowned 7th Ms Venus Swimwear
- Oct 23 "The MacNeil-Lehrer Report" becomes "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", upon Robert MacNeil's retirement (currently known as "PBS NewsHour") on PBS
- Oct 24 Total solar eclipse in SW/S Asia (2m09s)
- Oct 26 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
- Oct 27 Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
- Oct 29 Sunday NY News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25
- Oct 30 Québec votes in a referendum to remain part of Canada
Birthdays in History
- Oct 6 Jessica Lunsford, American kidnapping victim (d. 2005)
Deaths in History
- Oct 1 Aditya Biria, India's 1st global industrialist, dies of cancer at 51
- Oct 1 Rene Cloke, British illustrator, dies at 90
- Oct 2 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67
- Oct 3 Charles Lacy Veach, American astronaut (STS 39, STS 52), dies at 51
- Oct 4 Peter Nicholson Gunn, Australian writer (The Churches of Rome), dies at 81
- Oct 5 Fred Fehl, Austrian-American photographer, dies at 89
- Oct 6 Oswald Moxley Gibbs, Grenadian diplomat (High Commissioners to the United Kingdom 1974-78), dies at 67
- Oct 7 Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59
- Oct 7 Gérard de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer, dies at 77
- Oct 8 Frederick Harry Baines, English painter, dies at 85
- Oct 8 John Cairncross, British civil servant and spy (5th man - Cambridge Five), dies at 82
- Oct 8 Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45
Alec Douglas-Home (1903-1995)
Oct 9 British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1963-64), dies at 92
- Oct 9 John Alfred Scali, American journalist and diplomat, dies at 77
- Oct 9 Kukrit Pramoj, Thai politician (13th Prime Minister of Thailand) and scholar, dies at 84
- Oct 9 Patric Walker, American-British astrologer, dies of food poisoning at 64
- Oct 9 Phillip Oppenheimer, British diamond trader, dies at 83
- Oct 10 Jimmy Nash, record company owner, dies at 47
- Oct 10 John Rodolph, wheelchair-race world record holder, hit by truck at 31
- Oct 10 Michelle Francis Bird, campaigner, dies at 30
- Oct 10 Paolo Gucci, entrepreneur/accessories designer, dies at 64
- Oct 10 Robert Finch, American politician (8th U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare), dies at 70
- Oct 13 Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter, dies at 71
- Oct 13 Henry Roth, American writer (Call it Sleep), dies at 89
- Oct 14 Edith Pargeter, English author (wrote Brother Cadfael mysteries as Ellis Peters), dies of a stroke at 82
- Oct 14 Helen Vlachos, Greek newspaper publisher (closed her newspapers in protest at military junta), dies at 83
- Oct 16 John Walker, museum director, dies at 88
- Oct 16 Murdo Alex MacLeod, Free Church of Scotland minister, dies at 60
- Oct 16 Thomas Augustine Martin, Irish academic, dies at 59
- Oct 17 Peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66
- Oct 18 Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, American lawyer and civil rights activist (challenged University of Oklahoma segregation laws in Supreme Court and won), dies at 67
- Oct 18 Iri Maruki, Japanese artist (The Hiroshima Panels), dies at 94
- Oct 18 John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer, dies at 90
- Oct 18 Thomas Lyttle, paramilitary, dies at 56
- Oct 20 Bernadette Hingley, English priest, one of 1st women to be ordained in England, dies of cancer at 47
- Oct 21 Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (Cuto), dies at 75
- Oct 21 Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer, dies at 58
- Oct 21 Linda Goodman, American astrologer and poet, dies from complications of diabetes at 70
- Oct 22 Edward Totah, art Dealer, dies at 46
- Oct 22 K B Wilson, methodist principal (Westminster College), dies at 50
- Oct 22 Kingsley Amis, English author (Lucky Jim), dies of injuries from a fall at 73
- Oct 22 Simone Gallimard, French editor and publisher, dies at 77
- Oct 23 Gavin Ewart, English poet (Pleasures of the Flesh), dies at 79
- Oct 24 Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82
- Oct 24 Ronald Selby Wright, Scottish Church of Scotland minister, dies at 87
- Oct 25 Kenneth Dadzie, Ghanaian diplomat and 1st African Secretary-General of UNCTAD, dies at 65
- Oct 25 Robert Grieve, Scottish civil servant and planner, dies at 84
- Oct 26 Bernhard Heiliger, German artist and sculptor, dies at 79
- Oct 26 Georgia Neese Gray, 1st Woman Treasurer of USA, dies at 95
- Oct 28 Allan Leslie Merson, historian, dies at 79
- Oct 28 Katsumasa Sakioka, Japanese-American property tycoon, dies at 96 [1]
- Oct 30 Terry Southern, writer, dies at 71
- Oct 31 Derek Anthony Enright, British Labour politician, dies at 60
- Oct 31 Henry A Walter Richard Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland, dies at 42
- Oct 31 Leonard Ernest John Chant, social worker, dies at 57
- Oct 31 Wallace Edward Rowling, Prime Minister of NZ (1974-1975), dies at 68
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