What Happened in October 1988

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• Oct 1 Bradley Center in Milwaukee opens with an exhibition hockey game between Chicago Blackhawks and Edmonton Oilers; construction cost $90 million; closed 2018
• Oct 1 Canadian synchronised swimmer Carolyn Waldo teams with Michelle Cameron to win the duet gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; wraps up double having won individual title

• Oct 1 The inaugural Olympic table tennis program concludes in Seoul with China and South Korea each winning 2 titles
• Oct 1 The Soviet women's 4 x 400m relay team runs world record 3:15.17 to beat a star-studded US team and win the Olympic gold medal in Seoul; Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina & Olga Bryzgina
• Oct 1 Yuri Savichev scores in extra time as the Soviet Union beats Brazil 2-1 to win the men's football gold medal at the Seoul Olympics

• Oct 2 Gelindo Bordin of Italy wins the men's marathon in 2:10:32 at the Seoul Olympics; beats world champion Douglas Wakiihuri of Kenya by 15 seconds
• Oct 2 In a season ending 7-5 win in St. Louis, NY Mets' outfielder Kevin McReynolds establishes a MLB record swiping 21 bases without being caught stealing during the season

• Oct 2 Minnesota Twins total 3,030,672 in attendance at Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome; first AL club ever to break 3 million in a MLB season
• Oct 2 New Zealand horseman Mark Todd wins individual eventing gold medal aboard Charisma at the Seoul Olympics; his 2nd consecutive gold after winning in 1984
• Oct 2 Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections
• Oct 2 South Korean light middleweight boxer Park Si-hun is controversially awarded the Seoul Olympic gold medal after appearing well beaten by future 4 weight class world champion Roy Jones Jr
• Oct 3 26th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-day excursion
• Oct 3 Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway bet 44th & 45th Sts NYC
• Oct 3 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
• Oct 3 WBMW-FM, Washington, D.C. changes calls to WJFK & begins airing Howard Stern
• Oct 4 Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid
• Oct 5 Brazil adopts its Constitution

• Oct 5 Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism
• Oct 6 Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
• Oct 7 Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox
• Oct 7 Latvian flag raised in Riga for first time since annexation by USSR
• Oct 7 Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time
• Oct 7 WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 & WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (NYC radio)

• Oct 8 Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage
• Oct 8 Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove
• Oct 9 17% vote for extreme-right Flemish Block in Belgium
• Oct 9 9th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats New Zealand 25-12
• Oct 9 Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series
• Oct 9 MLB American League Championship: Oakland Athletics beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 0
• Oct 10 22nd Country Music Association Awards: Highway 101 & K. T. Oslin win
• Oct 10 NBC premieres tele-biopic, "Winnie", starring Meredith Baxter and based on life of [Gwyanna] Winifred Sprockett

• Oct 12 Israel & China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations
• Oct 12 MLB National League Championship: Los Angeles Dodgers beat New York Mets, 4 games to 3

• Oct 13 Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary festival
• Oct 13 Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages
• Oct 13 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 14 Crude oil prices jump in anticipation of possible production accord at Gulf Cooperation Council meeting set for October 16
• Oct 14 Naguib Mahfouz is the 1st Arabic writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Oct 14 NJ Devils raise their 1st pennant by winning the Patrick Division Playoff Championship
• Oct 15 Amnesty International's "Human Rights Now!" Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Oct 15 NCAA record rushing yardage (768 yards-Oklahoma)
• Oct 15 With 2 outs in bottom of 9th, an injured Kirk Gibson hits dramatic 2 run HR to give Dodgers a 5-4 win in 1st game of World Series
• Oct 16 "Smile Jamaica" concert for Hurricane Gilbert victims held in London
• Oct 16 Orel Hirsheiser, 1st to pitch shutout in playoff & World Series
• Oct 17 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
• Oct 17 Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of NY Yankees
• Oct 17 Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment
• Oct 17 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft
• Oct 17 Rockin Robin beats "Sensational" Sherri Martel for WWF woman's title

• Oct 18 Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane`s Kach Party as racist
• Oct 18 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Oct 19 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
• Oct 19 Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
• Oct 19 Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border
• Oct 19 Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album
• Oct 19 South African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize
• Oct 19 US Senate passes bill curbing ads during children's TV shows

• Oct 20 Britain ends suspects' right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA
• Oct 20 Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"
• Oct 20 Man armed with explosives blows himself up in 125 St subway station (NYC)
• Oct 20 Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated
• Oct 21 Bat*21, an American war film, is released
• Oct 21 Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid

• Oct 23 Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid

• Oct 24 Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown
• Oct 25 ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy pigs' popularity as pets
• Oct 25 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

• Oct 26 US-Soviet effort to free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK
• Oct 27 "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)
• Oct 28 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister

• Oct 29 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
• Oct 29 China announces a herbal male contraceptive
• Oct 29 First scheduled Soviet shuttle launch (postponed)
• Oct 29 Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
• Oct 30 2 gambling clubs & 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot

• Oct 30 Jim Elliott (US) completes 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
• Oct 30 NY Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time
• Oct 31 19°F lowest October temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio

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• Oct 1 Cariba Heine, Australian actress
• Oct 2 Brittany Howard, American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alabama Shakes), born in Athens, Alabama
• Oct 3 Alicia Vikander, actress (The Danish Girl), born in Gothenburg, Sweden
• Oct 3 ASAP Rocky [Rakim Mayers], American rapper (Long. Live. A$AP), born in New York City
• Oct 3 Tadhg Kelly, American actor
• Oct 4 Derrick Rose, American basketball point guard (NBA Draft 2008 #1 overall pick Chicago Bulls; NBA MVP 2011; NBA All-Star 2010–12), born in Chicago, Illinois
• Oct 4 Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer (Glee, Supergirl), born in Littleton, Colorado
• Oct 5 Bahar Kızıl, German singer (Monrose), born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
• Oct 5 Bobby Edner, American actor, born in Downey, California
• Oct 5 Maja Salvador, Filipina actress, born in Aparri, Philippines
• Oct 6 Kayky Brito, Brazilian actor.
• Oct 6 Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress
• Oct 7 Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley), born in The Woodlands, Texas
• Oct 10 Jodie Devos, Belgian operatic soprano, born in Libramont-Chevigny, Belgium

• Oct 14 Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricket all-rounder (7 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 104, 8 wickets; ODI HS 201no 2023 WC; Victoria, Melbourne Stars, RC Bangalore), born in Melbourne, Australia
• Oct 14 MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress
• Oct 14 Max Thieriot, American actor
• Oct 15 Mesut Özil, Turkish-German football player (Arsenal, German national team), born in Gelsenkirchen, West Germany
• Oct 16 Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer

• Oct 20 Ma Long, Chinese table tennis player (Olympic and World Champion), born in Anshan, China
• Oct 20 Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume), born in Yokohama, Japan
• Oct 21 Ajaz Patel, New Zealand cricket spin bowler (10-119 v India 2021; one of 3 to take 10 wickets in Test innings), born in Mumbai, India
• Oct 21 Glen Powell, American actor (Top Gun: Maverick), born in Austin, Texas

• Oct 23 Nicolaj Agger, Danish football player, born in Hvidovre, Denmark
• Oct 24 Daniel Shalikar, American actor (Honey I Blew Up the Kid), born in East Brunswick, New Jersey
• Oct 24 Joshua Shalikar, American actor (Honey I Blew Up the Kid), born in East Brunswick, New Jersey
• Oct 25 (Ross) "Rylin" Clark, British TV personality, presenter, and model, born in Stepney, East London, England
• Oct 29 Katherine Timpf, American TV personality (Sincerely, Kat), born in Detroit, Michigan
• Oct 30 Janel Parrish, American actress (Pretty Little Liars), born in Oahu, Hawaii
• Oct 31 Sébastien Buemi, Swiss racing driver, born in Aigle, Switzerland

• Oct 1 Robert Englund, actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth

• Oct 31 Jigme Singye Wangchuk, King of Bhutan (32) weds four queens (25 to 31) in Punakha Dzong, Bhutan

• Oct 14 Mike Tyson countersues Robin Givens for divorce & annulment

• Oct 1 Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (People's Palace), dies at 90

• Oct 3 Franz Josef Strauss, German politician, Minister of Defense (1956-62), dies at 73
• Oct 3 Generoso Pope Jr., American media mogul, created "The National Enquirer", dies of a heart attack at 61
• Oct 5 Lois Wilson (née Burnham), American co-founder of Al-Anon also known as "Lois W.", dies at 97
• Oct 7 Billy Daniels, African-American jazz singer ("That Old Black Magic") and television pioneer (The Billy Daniels Show), dies of cancer at 73
• Oct 8 Ernst Hermann Meyer, German composer, dies at 82
• Oct 9 Cliff Gallup, American guitarist (Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps), dies of a heart attack at 58
• Oct 9 Edward Chodorov, Broadway playwright and director (Story of Louis Pasteur), dies at 84
• Oct 9 Felix Wankel, German inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine), dies at 86
• Oct 9 Jackie Milburn, English soccer striker (13 caps; Newcastle United 353 games), dies from lung cancer at 64
• Oct 10 Juan Pujol Garcia, Spanish double agent (spied for Britain, codename Garbo, pretended to spy for Nazi Germany codename Arabel), dies at 76
• Oct 11 Bonita Granville, American actress and producer (These Three, Hitler's Children, Lone Ranger), dies of lung cancer at 65
• Oct 11 Morgan Farley, actor (Open Secret), dies of natural causes at 90
• Oct 11 Wayland Flowers, American ventriloquist (Madame), dies of AIDS at 48
• Oct 12 Ken Murray, American comedian (Ken Murray Show, Judy Garland Show) and actor (Bill and Coo, Crooner), dies at 85
• Oct 12 Ruth Manning-Sanders, author of children's books (b. 1895)
• Oct 13 Mike Venezia, jockey, dies in 5th-race fall at Belmont Race Track, NY
• Oct 14 Mary Morris, actress (Agitator, Double Door), dies
• Oct 14 Vic Raschi, American baseball pitcher (4 × MLB All-Star; 6 × World Series; AL strikeout leader 1951; NY Yankees), dies of a heart attack at 69
• Oct 15 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji [Leon Dudley Sorabji], Parsi-British pianist and composer (Opus clavicembalisticum), dies of heart failure at 96
• Oct 18 Dimitri Frenkel Frank, Dutch writer and director (Hadimassa), dies at 60
• Oct 19 Edward "Son" House, American delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist ("Walking Blues"; "Preachin' The Blues"), dies of larynx cancer at 86
• Oct 19 Friedrich Weinreb, Polish economist and narrative author, dies at 77

• Oct 24 Henry Armstrong, American boxer (world featherweight, lightweight, welterweight [19 x title defences] champion), dies at 75
• Oct 24 Sumner White, American sailor (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 58
• Oct 25 Bill Cody, actor (Blazing Justice, Ghost City), dies at 75
• Oct 25 Johnnie Richardson, American R&B musician (Johnnie & Joe), dies at 53
• Oct 26 Herman Strategier, Dutch organist, conductor, and composer (Rembrandt Cantata; Shadow Out of Time), dies at 76
• Oct 27 Charles Hawtrey, English actor (Carry On films), dies near London at 73
• Oct 27 Hannah Tillich, German-American writer (Harbor Mouse) and wife of Paul Tillich, dies at 92
• Oct 27 S B Fuller, founder (Fuller products), dies at 83
• Oct 29 Ben Aerden [John Mikkelsen], Dutch actor (Hamlet, Uilenspiegel), dies at 78
• Oct 30 Sugar Geise, actress (Rhythm Parade), dies after brief illness at 71
• Oct 30 T. Hee, American animator (b. 1911)
• Oct 31 Alfred Pellan, Québécois modernist painter, dies of leukemia at 82
• Oct 31 John Houseman, Romanian actor (The Paper Chase, Rollerball, The Fog), dies of spinal cancer at 86