Love You Forever
Oct 1 Canadian children's author Robert Munsch publishes "Love You Forever"
- Oct 1 New Zealand's Labour Government introduces a Goods and Services Tax (GST), adding 10% to the cost of most goods and services
- Oct 1 President Carter's presidential library/museum dedicated in Atlanta
- Oct 2 Astros starter Mike Scott finishes MLB regular season with 306 strikeouts with 8 in a 2-1 win in San Francisco; 3rd NL pitcher to reach 300 in a season
Baseball Record
Oct 2 New York Mets' Dwight Gooden becomes first pitcher to collect 200 strikeouts in each of his first 3 seasons when he records 7 in 8-2 win v Pittsburgh Pirates
Assassination Attempt
Oct 2 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
- Oct 3 Baltimore loses 6-3 to Detroit Tigers, assuring Orioles of club's first ever last-place finish in AL East standings
- Oct 3 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die
- Oct 3 TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, was officially opened.
Baseball Record
Oct 4 NY Yankees closer Dave Righetti saves both doubleheader games at Fenway Park for 5-3 and 3-1 wins v Boston; Righetti's MLB record 46th save
- Oct 4 Queen Beatrice installs dam at Oosterschelde
- Oct 4 Rachel Oliver (Mass), 20, crowned 19th Miss Black America
- Oct 5 London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms
Dickerson's Overtime Record
Oct 5 Rams running back Eric Dickerson runs for an NFL overtime record 42-yard touchdown as LA defeats Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 26-20 at Anaheim Stadium
- Oct 6 Russian nuclear sub K291 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
- Oct 7 First edition of new British newspaper "Independent" published
Sports History
Oct 7 Steve Yzerman is named captain of the Detroit Red Wings, a title he would hold for over 1,300 games
- Oct 8 Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
- Oct 8 Run-DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs
The Late Show with Joan Rivers
Oct 9 "The Late Show with Joan Rivers" premieres on Fox, first woman to host a US late-night TV talk show' she is fired in May of 1987
Phantom of the Opera
Oct 9 Stage musical "Phantom of the Opera" premieres in London, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman; runs for 13,629 performances
- Oct 9 US Senate convicts US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment; he had previously been criminally convicted of tax evasion
- Oct 10 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador
- Oct 12 California Angels within 1 pitch of pennant victory lose to Red Sox
- Oct 13 25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's)
- Oct 13 IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992
- Oct 14 IOC decides to stagger Winter & Summer Olympic schedule
Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 14 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel, for his efforts to ensure the Holocaust was remembered
- Oct 14 Tim Kides of West NY, NJ performs 25,000 leg raises in 11:57:15
- Oct 15 Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 & win NL pennant
- Oct 15 MLB American League Championship: Boston Red Sox beat California Angels, 4 games to 3
- Oct 15 MLB National League Championship: New York Mets beat Houston Astros, 4 games to 2
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Oct 15 Yuan T. Lee is the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize winner, for Chemistry, alongside Dudley R. Herschbach and John C. Polanyi for work on the "dynamics of chemical elementary processes" [1]
- Oct 16 Armand Hammer returns to US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
- Oct 16 Joe Raposa's musical "Raggedy Ann: The Musical Adventure", starring Ivy Austin, opens at Nederlander Theater, NYC; runs for 5 performances
- Oct 16 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nobel Prize in Literature
Oct 16 Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright and poet, becomes the first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Oct 17 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982
Cricket History
Oct 19 Allan Border scores the 1,000,000th run in all test cricket (vs India in Bombay)
- Oct 19 Joe Raposa's musical "Raggedy Ann: The Musical Adventure", starring Ivy Austin, closes at Nederlander Theater, NYC, after 5 performances
- Oct 19 Musical revue "Flamenco Puro" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater, NYC, for a limited run of 40 performances
- Oct 19 USSR expels five US diplomats
- Oct 20 Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa
- Oct 21 1st-class cricket debut of Andy Flower, ZCU Presidents XI v Young WI
- Oct 21 American writer Edward Tracy kidnapped in Beirut
- Oct 21 Hugh Whitemore's "Breaking the Code" premieres in London
- Oct 21 IBM re-forms in South Africa
- Oct 21 Republic of Marshall Islands signs Compact of Free Association with US
- Oct 22 John Forster and Lee Holdridge's musical "Into the Light", starring Dean Jones, opens at Neil Simon Theater, NYC ; runs for 6 performances
- Oct 22 WNBC-AM NYC helicopter crashes into Hudson River during a live report, killing traffic reporter Jane Dornacker
Event of Interest
Oct 23 Artist Keith Haring commissioned to paint a mural on the Berlin wall by Checkpoint Charlie Museum 300 metres long
- Oct 24 Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria
- Oct 24 MLB Los Angeles Dodgers' infielder Bill Russell (38) announces his retirement
- Oct 25 International Red Cross ousted from South Africa
- Oct 25 Michael Sergio Parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS
- Oct 25 Trailing 5-3 with 2 out & no one on in bottom of 10th, NY rallies to win Game 6 of the World Series, 6-5, Bill Buckner misplays a ball
Oct 26 French McLaren driver Alain Prost retains his Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with victory in season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; wins title by 2 points from Nigel Mansell
- Oct 26 John Forster and Lee Holdridge's musical "Into the Light", starring Dean Jones, closes at Neil Simon Theater, NYC. after 6 performances
- Oct 27 British government deregulates financial markets in a "Big Bang", enhancing London's status as a financial capital while increasing income inequality
- Oct 27 MLB World Series: NY Mets win their second title; beat Boston Red Sox, 8-5 at Shea Stadium for 4 games to 3 series win; MVP: Mets infielder Ray Knight
- Oct 28 Stanley E. Hubbard's KOB sells the company's Albuquerque, New Mexico radio stations, KOB-AM and KOB-FM, the stations change their call signs to KKOB
Oct 28 The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor
Oct 29 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the final stretch of London's Orbital Motorway, the M25. Then the world’s longest ring road at 117 miles (188.3 km).
Cricket History
Oct 29 Pakistan cricket leg-spin bowler Abdul Qadir takes 6-16 as the West Indies dismissed for 53 in 186 run defeat in 1st Test at Faisalabad
- Oct 30 Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modifications are made
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