- Oct 2 Groundbreaking begins on Veteran's Stadium in Philadelphia
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Oct 2 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
- Oct 3 King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate (Antwerp)
- Oct 3 William "Pete" Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
- Oct 4 Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
- Oct 6 Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco) hippies throw a funeral for "Hippie" to mark end of "the summer of love".
- Oct 6 USSR performs nuclear test
- Oct 7 Rolf Hochhuth's play "Soldaten" premieres in West Berlin
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Oct 8 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
Che Guevara
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Oct 10 Brendan Behan's "Borstal Boy" premieres in Dublin
Brendan Behan
The Motherland Calls
Oct 15 The Motherland Calls, a monumental statue commemorating the battle of Stalingrad completed in Volgograd, Russia, then the World's tallest statue designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich
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Oct 17 Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue
Brian Epstein
- Oct 17 William "Pete" Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km
- Oct 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Oct 18 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A Bethe
- Oct 18 Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus
- Oct 19 Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus
- Oct 20 All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers in Meridan Mississippi
- Oct 21 Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat
- Oct 21 Tens of thousands of anti-Vietnam War protesters march on the Pentagon, besieging the military headquarters for two days
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Oct 26 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself after 26 years on the Peacock Throne
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Oct 27 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
- Oct 27 NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen
- Oct 29 Expo 67 closes in Montreal, Canada
- Oct 29 London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
- Oct 30 USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch
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Oct 31 Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Republic
Nguyen Van Thieu