Historical Events
- Oct 1 "Oba Oba '93" opens at Marquis Theater, NYC; runs for 22 performances
- Oct 1 Cartoon Cable Network premieres
- Oct 1 Gil Stein officially becomes only the 5th president in the NHL's 75 year history; serves for just one year before the title changed to “commissioner”
- Oct 1 Greater Pittsburgh International Airport opens
Event of Interest
Oct 1 Ross Perot re-enters US presidential race
- Oct 2 The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil
- Oct 2 VP Itamar Franco becomes President of Brazil
Music History
Oct 3 Irish pop singer Sinéad O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on "Saturday Night Live" [1]
- Oct 3 MLB Atlanta Braves end season with 1-0 victory over San Diego Padres at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium for franchise record 98th win (old record 95 in 1957, when they were based in Milwaukee)
- Oct 4 "Anna Karenina" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 performances
- Oct 4 "Real Inspector Hound" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
- Oct 4 1st time AL East & West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor & Oak
- Oct 4 El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die
- Oct 4 Miami Dolphin Louis Oliver returns record tying interception 103 yards
Solheim Cup
Oct 4 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Dalmahoy CC: Europe beats US, 11½-6½; Laura Davies of England wins all her 3 matches
- Oct 4 The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
- Oct 5 NY senator Alphonse D'Amato filibusters for 15 hours 20 mins
- Oct 5 US Air goes on strike
Congress Overrides Bush Veto
Oct 5 US congress votes to override George H. W. Bush's veto of a bill regulating cable TV companies, 1st overturn of a Bush veto
- Oct 7 Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win franchise opener, in 7-3 win over visiting Chicago Black Hawks
- Oct 8 Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
- Oct 8 Ottawa Senators 1st NHL game
- Oct 8 Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus
- Oct 8 Video game Mortal Kombat first released as a 2D fighting game by Midway Games
- Oct 9 A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of Knapp residence, Peekskill, New York, destroying family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
Under Siege
Oct 9 Action thriller film "Under Siege" directed by Andrew Davis starring Steven Seagal in his most famous role is released
- Oct 9 Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to New York
- Oct 10 Floriade (Flower Show) closes at Hague, Netherlands
Event of Interest
Oct 11 1st three-way US presidential debate (George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot)
Sports History
Oct 11 Deion Sanders, plays for Atlanta Falcons (NFL) & Braves (Baseball)
- Oct 11 Toronto down 6-1 in 7th beats A's 7-6 in 11th in AL playoff
- Oct 12 5.8 earthquake at Cairo (at least 510 die)
- Oct 12 Arecibo radio telescope begins Microwave Observing Project search for occupied planets
- Oct 12 Expo '92 closes in Seville Spain
- Oct 12 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Albany NY (WQBK 103.5 & 103.9 FM)
- Oct 12 Wash Redskin Art Monk sets NFL record with 820th reception
- Oct 14 MLB American League Championship: Toronto Blue Jays beat Oakland Athletics, 4 games to 2
- Oct 14 MLB National League Championship: Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 4 games to 3
- Oct 14 Toronto Blue Jays beats Oakland A's to win their 1st AL pennant
Battle of Interest
Oct 15 Charles Taylor launches an offensive against Monrovia Liberia
- Oct 15 Howard Stern radio show begins broadcasting on WLUP-AM, Chicago
- Oct 15 NYC Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train
Film & TV History
Oct 16 1,700th David Letterman Show
- Oct 17 1st Baseball World Series featuring non-American team; Game 1: Toronto Blue Jays lose 3-1 to Braves at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium
- Oct 18 "Oba Oba '93" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 22 performances
- Oct 18 1st non-American team to win a Baseball World Series game; Toronto Blue Jays beat Atlanta Braves, 5-4 at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium
- Oct 18 6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities
- Oct 18 Philadelphia Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL quarterback scramble record of 3,683
- Oct 18 Start of Zimbabwe's 1st Test match, v India at Harare
- Oct 20 1st Baseball World Series game is played outside United States; Toronto Blue Jays beat Atlanta Braves, 3-2 in Game 3 at SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario
- Oct 20 David Houghton scores Zimbabwe's 1st Test hundred (121 v India, debut)
- Oct 20 Mr Johnson surrenders Monrovia, Liberia & is exiled to Nigeria
- Oct 21 Madonna's book "Sex" goes on sale
- Oct 22 Atlanta Braves become 1st American team to win a Baseball World Series game outside of United States; beat Toronto Blue Jays, 7-2 in Game 5 at SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario
- Oct 22 Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) launches into space
The Sisters Rosensweig
Oct 22 Wendy Wasserstein's play "The Sisters Rosensweig" premieres off-Broadway in NYC
- Oct 24 10th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats Great Britain 10-6
- Oct 24 Baseball World Series: Toronto Blue Jays beat Atlanta Braves, 4-3 in Game 6 at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium to win their first-ever title; MVP: Toronto catcher Pat Borders
- Oct 25 Brian Friels' stage drama "Dancing at Lughnasa" closes at Plymouth Theater ,NYC, after 421 performances and 3 Tony Award wins
- Oct 25 Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution.
- Oct 25 Rene Lachemann hired as Fla Marlins 1st manager
- Oct 26 London Ambulance Service thrown into chaos after implementation problems with a new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system
- Oct 26 The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
- Oct 27 Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies
- Oct 27 Fox is to launch Tuesday night network TV, rescheduled to Decemeber
- Oct 27 Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of JRR Tolkien
- Oct 27 Tipper Gore (wife of future VP) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn't have to watch it blink
- Oct 28 Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world!
- Oct 30 MTA begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles
- Oct 31 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Gulfstream Park; winners: A P Indy, Fraise, Gilded Time, Liza, Lure, Paseana, Thirty Slews
- Oct 31 Don Keller makes his 18,000th sky dive
Event of Interest
Oct 31 Roman Catholic church apologizes for its treatment of Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei after 359 years
1992 History
Famous Birthdays
Cardi B (31 years old)
Oct 11 American rapper ("Bodak Yellow";"I Like It"; "WAP"), born in New York City
Josh Hutcherson (31 years old)
Oct 12 American actor (Hunger Games films), born in Union, Kentucky
- Oct 12 Taylor Horn, American singer and actress, born in Redlands, California
- Oct 14 Savannah Outen, American pop singer- songwriter, born in Hillsboro, Oregon
- Oct 15 Ncuti Gatwa, Rwandan-Scottish actor (Sex Education, Doctor Who), born in Nyarugenge, Rwanda
- Oct 15 Vincent Martella, American actor (Everybody Hates Chris; Phineas and Ferb), born in Rochester, New York
Bryce Harper (31 years old)
Oct 16 American baseball outfielder (7 × MLB All-Star; NL MVP 2015, 21; NLCS MVP 2022; All-MLB First Team 2021; Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Phillies), born in Las Vegas, Nevada
Lil Durk (31 years old)
Oct 19 American rapper (The Voice of the Heroes, 7220), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Oct 20 Danielle Kang, American golfer (Women's PGA C'ship 2017), born in San Francisco, California
- Oct 21 21 Savage [Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph], rapper, born in London, England
- Oct 21 Hari Nef, American actress (Transparent) and model (1st openly transgender model on a British cover), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Oct 22 Niloofar Hamedi, Iranian journalist (imprisoned for breaking Mahsa Amini story),
- Oct 22 Sofia Vassilieva, American actress (Medium), born in n Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Oct 23 Álvaro Morata, Spanish footballer (Juventus), born in Madrid, Spain
- Oct 29 Evan Fournier, French NBA player (New York Knicks), born in Saint-Maurice, France
Famous Weddings
- Oct 3 American "Star Trek: The Next Generation" actor LeVar Burton (35) weds American make-up artist Stephanie Cozart (38)
Michelle & Barack Obama
Oct 3 American lawyer and future US President Barack Obama (31) weds fellow American lawyer Michelle Robinson (28) in Chicago, Illinois
- Oct 10 Actress Heather Thomas weds entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham
- Oct 10 American "Breakfast Club" actress Ally Sheedy (30) weds American actor David Lansbury; divorce 2008
J. K. Rowling
Oct 16 Author J. K. Rowling (27) weds Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes
Famous Deaths
- Oct 1 Bruce Vorhauer, inventor (Today contraceptive sponge), suicide at 50
- Oct 1 Harry Ray, American soul singer (Ray, Goodman, Brown), dies of a stroke at 45
- Oct 1 Petra Kelly, German politician (co-founder of German Green Party), activist, and writer (Nonviolence Speaks to Power), killed by her lover in murder-suicide at 44 (date approximate)
- Oct 4 Denny Hulme, New Zealand auto racer (F1 World Drivers' Champion 1967, 3rd 1968, 72; 112 F1 GP starts, 8 wins), dies of a heart attack driving in Bathurst 1,000 at 56
- Oct 4 Itzhak Fuks, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
- Oct 4 Ohad Arnon, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
- Oct 5 Cornelis "Cees" Berkhouwer, Dutch politician (VVD), dies
- Oct 5 Eddie Kendricks, American singer-songwriter (The Temptations, 1960-71 - "I Can't Get Next To You"; "Just My Imagination"), dies of lung cancer at 52
- Oct 5 Laurie Anders, American actress and singer, dies of cancer at 70
- Oct 5 Paul Acket, Dutch publisher (Music Express) and impresario (North Sea Jazz Festival), dies of lung cancer at 69
- Oct 6 Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer, slow-medium leg-spin bowler (144 test wickets at 22.59) and newspaper columnist, dies at 86
- Oct 6 Denholm Elliott, English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), dies at 70
- Oct 7 Allan Bloom, American philosopher and author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62
- Oct 7 Ed Blackwell, American jazz drummer (Ornette Colman Quartet), dies at 62
- Oct 7 Tevfik Esenç, Turkish farmer and last known speaker of the Ubykh language, dies at 88
Willy Brandt (1913-1992)
Oct 8 German statesman, leader of the SPD party (1964-1987) and Chancellor of West Germany (1969-74, Nobel 1971), dies of cancer at 78
- Oct 9 Per Olof Sundman, Swedish writer and politician, dies at 70
- Oct 10 James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78
- Oct 11 Theo Wolvencamp, painter (Cobra), dies
- Oct 11 Willem RJ Wittkampf, journalist/writer (Liner, Cannon), dies
- Oct 12 Alexander Pola [Abraham Polak], Dutch actor and writer (Farce Major), dies at 78
- Oct 12 John Hancock, American actor (LA Law, Love & War), dies of a heart attack at 51
- Oct 12 Ulysses Guimaraes, Brazilian MP (chairman), dies in accident
- Oct 13 Hughes Rudd, American news anchor (CBS Morning News), dies of aneurysm at 71
- Oct 13 James Marshall, American illustrator and author (George and Martha, The Stupids), dies of a brain tumor at 50
- Oct 15 Oliver Franks, British civil servant, ambassador to US (Report into Falklands War), and philosopher, dies at 87
Shirley Booth (1898-1992)
Oct 16 American Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress (Come Back, Little Sheba; Hazel), dies of natural causes at 94
- Oct 17 Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
- Oct 17 Ton Hasebos, cameraman/TV director (Gnome Hasebos), dies
- Oct 19 Gert Bastian, German military officer and politician, found dead apparent perpetrator of murder suicide at 69
- Oct 19 Maurice Le Roux, French conductor and film score composer (Kamouraska), dies at 69
- Oct 19 Petra Kelly, German politician found dead, apparent victim in murder-suicide at 44
- Oct 20 Orton Chirwa, Malawi lawyer, Minister of Justice, dies in captivity at 73
- Oct 20 Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (New Orleans Symphony, 1963-77; Bangor Symphony, 1981-92), dies of cancer at 66
- Oct 21 Jackson Weaver, voice of Smokey the Bear, dies of diabetes
- Oct 21 Jim Garrison, Louisiana District Attorney who investigated JFK assassination, dies at 70
- Oct 22 Cleavon Little, American actor (Blazing Saddles; Toy Soldiers), dies of colon cancer at 53
- Oct 22 Josef Veselka, Czech choral conductor (Prague Philharmonic Choir, 1959-81), and pedagogue, dies at 82
- Oct 22 Red Barber, American baseball broadcaster (Cincinnati Reds 1934–38, Brooklyn Dodgers 1939–53, NY Yankees 1954–66), dies at 84
- Oct 23 Kees Spermon, Dutch painter and graphic artist, dies
- Oct 23 William Masselos, American pianist, dies of Parkinson's complications at 72
- Oct 24 Alexander V Van de Wall Bake, staff leader/gov KMA Breda, dies
- Oct 24 Laurie Colwin, American author (Happy All the Time), dies at 48
- Oct 25 Adelino Da Palma Carlos, Prime Minister of Portugal (1974), dies
Roger Miller (1936-1992)
Oct 25 American country singer-songwriter ("King of the Road"; "Dang Me"), dies at 56
- Oct 26 (Dorothy) "Dottie" Green, American AAGPBL baseball player (Rockford Peaches), dies of cancer at 71
- Oct 26 Jerome Andrews, American-French dancer and choreographer, dies at 84
- Oct 26 Laurel Cronin, actor (Beethoven, Housesitter), dies of cancer at 53
- Oct 27 David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
- Oct 27 Roy Marshall, West Indian cricket batsman (4 Tests; Hampshire CCC, Barbados), dies from cancer at 62
- Oct 28 Joan Maloney Rio, dancer, dies of cancer at 57
- Oct 29 Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies
- Oct 29 Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree), dies
- Oct 30 Ernest H. Volwiler, American scientist and co-inventor of Pentothal - world's most widely used anesthetic, dies at 99 [1]
- Oct 30 Joan Mitchell, American painter and printmaker dies of cancer aged 67
