Historical Events
Boxing Title Fight
Oct 1 In his first World Boxing Council heavyweight title defense Lennox Lewis beats fellow Londoner Frank Bruno by TKO in 7 at the National Stadium in Cardiff, Wales
Constitutional Crisis
Oct 3 Battle at TV station Ostankino, Moscow townhall, about 25 killed
- Oct 3 Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organization in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Army Rangers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
Yeltsin Declares Emergency
Oct 3 Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow
- Oct 3 Cleveland Indians play their final MLB game at Cleveland Stadium; lose 4-0 to Chicago White Sox Chicago
White Liars/Black Comedy
Oct 3 Peter Shaffer's stage comedy twin-bill "White Liars/Black Comedy" closes at the Criterion Theater, NYC, after 38 performances
Music History
Oct 3 World music singer Harry Belafonte performs in Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Oct 4 Troops and tanks of President Boris Yeltsin shell and occupy the Russian White House in Moscow, the house of government of the Russian Federation
- Oct 5 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Oct 5 Russian President Boris Yeltsin removes honor guard from Lenin's mausoleum
Sports History
Oct 6 After 9 seasons & 3 Championships with the Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan announces his retirement from the NBA; returns on March 18, 1995 and leads Bulls to another 3 NBA titles
- Oct 6 Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time
- Oct 7 Massive Muslim demonstration in Xining, China, 12 killed
Nobel Prize in Literature
Oct 7 Nobel prize for literature awarded to American writer Toni Morrison
Private Parts
Oct 8 Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts"
- Oct 8 UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
- Oct 10 Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed
- Oct 10 NFL Cleveland Browns' Najee Mustafaa sets club record for longest interception (97 yds)
- Oct 11 Norwegian Rushdie publisher William Nygaard injured in attack
- Oct 11 US warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti
- Oct 12 "Mixed Emotions" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 48 performances
- Oct 12 MLB American League Championship: Toronto Blue Jays beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2
- Oct 13 Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew.
- Oct 13 Greek government of Papandreou forms
- Oct 13 Mighty Ducks win their 1st NHL game
- Oct 13 MLB National League Championship: Philadelphia Phillies beat Atlanta Braves, 4 games to 2
- Oct 13 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis & Michael Smith
- Oct 13 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse & Joseph Taylor
- Oct 15 Amstel brewery on Curacao produces 1,000,000,000th bottle
- Oct 15 Late night talk show "The Chevy Chase Show" final episode airs on FOX tv; cancelled after 6 weeks
Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 15 Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- Oct 16 Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters
Appointment of Interest
Oct 16 General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president
- Oct 16 IRA bomb attack on fish & chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed
- Oct 18 STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit
- Oct 19 UN authorizes arms, military and police supply embargo against Haiti
- Oct 20 Highest scoring, longest lasting World Series game - Toronto Blue Jays score 6 runs in 8th inning to defeat Philadelphia Phillies 15-14, in 4 hr-14 min slugfest at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia
- Oct 21 "Twilight of the Golds" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 29 performances
- Oct 21 Failed military coup in Burundi, led by ex-President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, includes assassination President Ndadaye; 525,000 Hutus flee
Sports History
Oct 21 Garry Kasparov defeats Nigel Short for chess championship
- Oct 22 Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov makes record 9th space walk
World Series
Oct 23 Baseball World Series: Defending champion Toronto Blue Jays beat Philadelphia Phillies, 8-6 at the SkyDome, Toronto to clinch series, 4-2; MVP: Blue Jays infielder Paul Molitor
- Oct 23 Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara in Indian-controlled Kashmir
- Oct 23 Seven people killed by IRA bomb attack in Belfast
- Oct 24 "Wonderful Tennessee" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 9 performances
- Oct 25 Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead
- Oct 25 Canada Liberal Party and Bloc Québécois wins parliamentary election
- Oct 25 Daryll Cullinan hits unbeaten 337 for Transvaal against Northern Transvaal, South African 1st-class cricket record score
- Oct 26 NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte
- Oct 26 NJ Devils lose 2-0 to Montreal, after winning 1st 7 games of 1993
- Oct 27 Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcasting in El Paso Texas
- Oct 28 Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99-years
- Oct 28 Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns
- Oct 29 "The Sign" single released in Europe by Ace of Base
- Oct 29 Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86
- Oct 30 Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0
- Oct 31 25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match
- Oct 31 Brian Friel's stage drama "Wonderful Tennessee" closes at Plymouth Theater, NYC, after 9 performances
- Oct 31 German unemployment hits national record of 3.5 million
Music History
Oct 31 Rapper Tupac Shakur charged with aggravated assault
1993 History
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 2 Tara Lynne Barr, American actress
- Oct 3 Lindsay Fabes, actor (Charlie Winthrop-Another World)
- Oct 8 Angus T. Jones, American actor (Two and a Half Men), born in Austin, Texas
- Oct 8 Bubba Wallace, American NASCAR racer, born in Mobile, Alabama
- Oct 8 Garbiñe Muguruza, Spanish tennis player (French Open 2016, Wimbledon 2017; WTA Finals 2021), born in Caracas, Venezuela
- Oct 9 Joy Crookes, British-Irish-Bangladeshi singer-songwriter, born in Lambeth, London, England
- Oct 9 Scotty McCreery, American country music singer (American Idol, 2011; "I Love You This Big"), born in Garner, North Carolina
- Oct 11 Brandon Flynn, American actor (13 Reasons Why), born in Miami, Florida
- Oct 13 Tiffany Trump, daughter of Donald Trump & Marla Maples, born in West Palm Beach, Florida
- Oct 16 Caroline Garcia, French tennis player (WTA Finals 2022; French Open doubles 2016), born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Kane Brown (30 years old)
Oct 21 American country music singer-songwriter (Experiment), born in Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Oct 23 Fabinho [Fábio Tavares], Brazilian footballer (Liverpool), born in Campinas, Brazil
Xander Schauffele (30 years old)
Oct 25 American golfer (British Open 2018, US Masters 2019 runner-up), born in San Diego, California
Famous Weddings
- Oct 3 American evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker (52) weds American building contractor Roe Messner (58), the second marriage for both, until her death in 2007
- Oct 8 Queen Elizabeth's nephew Viscount Linley (32) weds Serena Stanhope (24) at St. Margaret’s Church in London
- Oct 10 Ted Kennedy Jr (32) weds psychiatrist Katherine Gershman (34)
- Oct 22 Actor James Coburn (65) weds Paula Murad (37)
Famous Divorces
Darryl Strawberry
Oct 15 Baseball player Darryl Strawberry (31) divorces Lisa Andrews after more than 8 years of marriage
- Oct 15 Guardian Angel Lisa Evers Sliwa files for divorce from Curtis Sliwa
Famous Deaths
- Oct 1 Janine Darcey, French actress (Priez pour nous), dies at 75
- Oct 1 Joseph Warren, actor (Gift of Love, Urban Warriors), dies at 77
- Oct 1 Reizl Bozyk, Polish/American actress (Crossing Delancey), dies at 79
- Oct 2 Ahmed Abdul-Malik [Jonathan Tim, Jr.], American jazz double bassist and oud player (Odetta; Thelonius Monk), dies at 66
- Oct 2 Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), dies at 83
- Oct 2 William Berger, Austrian American actor (Face to Face, Adventure of Hercules), dies of prostate cancer at 65
- Oct 3 Gary Gordon, American army sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient, killed in action at the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia at 33
- Oct 3 Sgt. First Class Randy Shughart, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, killed in action at the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia at 35
- Oct 4 Fran Carlon, dies of cancer at 80
- Oct 4 Jim Holton, Scottish soccer defender (15 caps; Manchester United, Coventry City), dies of a heart attack at 42
- Oct 4 Varetta Dillard, American R&B singer ("Mercy, Mr. Percy"; "Easy, Easy Baby"; "Johnny Has Gone"), and civil rights activist, dies of cancer at 60 [1]
- Oct 5 Jane Nigh, American actress (Lorelei-Big Town, Blue Blood, Rawhide), dies at about 67
- Oct 5 Karl Gordon Henize, American astronomer and NASA astronaut (STS-51-F), dies of high altitude pulmonary edema during an expedition on Mount Everest at 66
- Oct 6 Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot, committed suicide at 44
- Oct 7 Agnes de Mille, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning dancer and choreographer (Rodeo; Oklahoma!), dies at 88
- Oct 7 Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician, dies at 86
- Oct 7 Cyril Cusack, South African actor (Day of the Jackal, Fahrenheit 451), dies of neuron disease at 82
- Oct 7 Kenneth Nelson, American actor (Henry Aldrich-Aldrich Family), dies at 63
- Oct 8 Manke Nelis [Cornelis Pieters], Dutch singer (Aunt Saar), dies at 73
- Oct 9 C. R. Rangachari, Indian cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies at 77
- Oct 9 Geert de Vlaeminck, Belgian champion cyclist, dies at 26
- Oct 10 Catherine Collard, French concert pianist (Schumann; Brahms), and teacher, dies of cancer at 46
- Oct 10 Djillali Belkhenchir, Algerian doctor, murdered at 52
- Oct 10 Owen Saunders, English mathematician and mechanical engineer, dies at 89
- Oct 11 Jess Thomas, American tenor known for his singing in Richard Wagner operas, dies at 66
- Oct 11 Yvar Mikhashoff [Ronald Mackay], American contemporary classical pianist, composer, and educator (University of Buffalo, 1973-93), dies of AIDS at 52
- Oct 12 Leon Ames, American actor (Mister Ed, Father of the Bride), dies from a stroke at 91
- Oct 12 Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (b. 1926)
- Oct 13 Gwen Wells, American actress (Nashville), dies of cancer at 42
- Oct 14 Bertie Clarke, West Indian cricket spin bowler (3 Tests, 6 wickets; Barbados, Northamptonshire CCC, Essex CCC), dies at 75
- Oct 14 Guy Malary, Haitian lawyer/minister of Justice, murdered at 50
- Oct 14 Mustafa Abada, Algerian TV director, murdered
- Oct 14 Walter Brown Newman, American screenwriter (Cat Ballou), dies at 77
- Oct 15 Ken E. Jones, musician (New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra), dies of AIDS at 34
- Oct 16 John Bowles, American businessman (president of Rexall Drugs), dies at 76
- Oct 17 Criss Oliva, American musician (Savatage), dies at 30
- Oct 17 Frank J Del Giudice, US industrial designer (Boeing 747), dies at 77
- Oct 17 Helmut Gollwitzer, German anti-Nazi theologian and pacifist, dies at 84 [1]
- Oct 17 Wim van Dooren, theologist/humanist/philosopher, dies
- Oct 18 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered at 63
- Oct 18 Lois Kibbee, American actress (Edge of Night), dies of a brain tumor at 71
- Oct 18 Smail Yefsah, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 31
- Oct 19 Bert Schoofs, table tennis star, dies at 48
- Oct 19 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered
- Oct 19 Jack Roy Armstrong, English historian (Traditional buildings), dies at 91
- Oct 20 Maurice Dolbier, American actor and author (Nowhere Near Everest; The Bus That Nobody Loved), dies at 81
- Oct 20 Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese Nihonga style painter, and designer, dies on his 84th birthday
- Oct 21 Assad Saftawi, Palestinian co-founder of al-Fatah, murdered at 58
- Oct 21 Irving Torgoff, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), dies at 75
- Oct 21 James Leo Herlihy, American novelist (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66
- Oct 21 Melchior Ndadaye, 1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murdered at 40
- Oct 21 Sam Zolotow, US theater critic (NY Times), dies at 94
- Oct 21 Scott Heiser, US photographer (Interview), dies at 44
- Oct 22 Elie A Cohen, physician (held in Auschwitz), dies at 84
- Oct 22 Fred C Shapiro, American journalist (Tiananmen-square 1989), dies at 62
- Oct 22 Jiří Hájek, Czech politician and diplomat, dies at 80
- Oct 22 Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera, Venezuelan musician and composer, dies at 80
- Oct 23 Algernon Rumbold, English diplomat who advocated for Tibet, dies at 87
- Oct 24 Ben Scholtens, historian (Gaama Duumi), murdered at 39
- Oct 24 Desmond Nuttall, English theorist, dies at 49
- Oct 24 Tonino Nardi, Italian cinematographer (Porte Manifest), dies at 54
- Oct 25 Francisco Velis, El Salvador guerilla leader (FMLN), murdered
- Oct 25 Mary C Lawton, jurist (CIA's Agency Seal Medallion), dies at 58
- Oct 25 Philip P. Cohen, American medical researcher, dies at 85
- Oct 25 Vincent Price, American actor (House on Haunted Hill, Fly, Laura), dies of lung cancer at 82
- Oct 25 Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 54
- Oct 26 Absolutely Nobody [David Powers], Wash lt-gov candidate, dies at 37
- Oct 26 H Hardenberg, writer, dies
- Oct 26 Harold Rome, American musical theater composer (Fanny; Pins and Needles), dies at 85
- Oct 28 Carmino Baelen, Belgian sleder, dies at 22
- Oct 28 Doris Duke, American heiress (American Tobacco Company), philanthropist (Independent Aid; Doris Duke Foundation), and socialite, dies of cardiac arrest following a stroke at 80
- Oct 29 Raymond Lockhart, TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report), dies at 65
Roger Turner (1901-1993)
Oct 29 American figure skater (7x US National Champion), dies at 92
Federico Fellini (1920-1993)
Oct 31 Italian film director and scriptwriter (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita), dies of stroke at 73
River Phoenix (1970-1993)
Oct 31 American actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me), dies of a drug overdose at 23