Historical Events
Cricket History
Oct 1 Australian cricket batsman David Boon scores 114 during 1 wicket, 1st Test defeat v Pakistan in Karachi; his 19th Test century
- Oct 1 NHL owners begin lockout of players lasting 103 days; season shortened to 48 games instead of 84; players seek collective bargaining and owners a salary cap
- Oct 1 Oriental Pearl Tower, the modern symbol of Shanghai, is completed standing 468 m (1,536 feet) high (China's tallest structure until 2007)
Event of Interest
Oct 1 South African President Nelson Mandela visits US
- Oct 1 Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Curacao
- Oct 2 "Show Boat" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC
- Oct 2 Pakistan cricket batsmen Inzamam-ul-Haq & Mushtaq Ahmed put on 57 runs in 8 overs for highest last-wicket partnership ever to win a Test, as the home team beats Australia by 1 wicket in the 1st Test in Karachi
- Oct 2 Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test
- Oct 3 Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil
Film & TV History
Oct 3 Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing "The Far Side" cartoon
- Oct 4 7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+
- Oct 4 Soyuz TM-20 launches
Country Music Association Awards
Oct 5 28th Country Music Association Awards: Vince Gill & Pam Tillis wins
- Oct 5 52 members of Zonnetempel, murdered
3-Point Line Shortened
Oct 5 NBA shortens the 3-point distance to a uniform 22 feet in attempt to help offensive players score more; Michael Jordan sets career highs in 3-point attempts & converted 3-point field goals, nearly double previous statistics
- Oct 6 -9] European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria
- Oct 6 Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg, South Africa
- Oct 7 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Oct 7 Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan
- Oct 7 Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government
- Oct 7 Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57)
- Oct 8 6th College Football Holy War: Boston College beats Notre Dame 30-11 in Chestnut Hill
- Oct 8 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill
- Oct 9 Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right)
- Oct 10 Lt-general Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti
- Oct 10 MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings
- Oct 10 Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred G. Gilman & Martin Rodbell for G-protein discoveries
Sports History
Oct 10 NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor's #56
- Oct 10 Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar
- Oct 11 Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar
- Oct 11 Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), lands
- Oct 12 Contact with NASA Venus orbitter Magellan broken
- Oct 12 Iranian Fokker F28 explodes between Isfahan and Tehran, killing 66
- Oct 13 Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland v Tasmania)
- Oct 13 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe
- Oct 14 NASA Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus
Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 14 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres
- Oct 15 Botswana President Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election
- Oct 15 Philip Glass' Symphony No. 2, for string orchestra, premieres with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, NYC
- Oct 15 President Jean-Baptiste Aristide returns to Haiti
- Oct 16 "Addams Family" actor Raul Julia, actor suffers a stroke
- Oct 16 Shreveport Pirates win first Canadian Football League game, 24-12 at home to Sacramento Gold Miners; fold 1995
Music Concert
Oct 17 Billy Joel performs opening concert at Cleveland's Gund Arena
- Oct 19 160 killed in fighting in Tsjetsjenie (Chechnya)
- Oct 19 Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22
- Oct 21 Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes, 32+ die
- Oct 21 North Korea signs pact to end their nuclear projects
- Oct 22 "Philadelphia, Here I Come" closes at Criterion NYC after 52 performances
Event of Interest
Oct 22 Statue of Sam Houston unveiled in Texas
Turbulent Indigo
Oct 25 Reprise Records releases "Turbulent Indigo", Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's 15th studio album; wins Grammy Award for Best Pop Album
- Oct 25 Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjacked (she actually killed them)
- Oct 26 Jordan & Israel sign peace accord
- Oct 28 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time
- Oct 29 Antonov AN-12A crashes short of runway at Ust-Ilimsk Airport (Irkutsk, Russia), possibly due to icing; all 23 on board killed
- Oct 29 National Museum of American Indian joins the Smithsonian Institution and moves to the George Gustav Heye Center in Lower Manhattan (NYC) [1]
- Oct 29 NY Lotto pays $60 million+
Music Concert
Oct 29 Pink Floyd finishes their final concert tour with a show at Earls Court in London, England
- Oct 30 Leftist coalition wins Macedonian parliamentary election
- Oct 31 "Creep" single released by TLC – their 1st US No.1 (Billboard Song of the Year 1995)
- Oct 31 American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed
- Oct 31 American jam band Phish performs The Beatles "White Album" as a musical costume during a show at the Glens Falls Civic Center in Glens Falls, New York.
Sports History
Oct 31 American tennis star Venus Williams makes her professional debut as a 14-year-old with a 6-3, 6-4 win over former NCAA champion and world No. 58 Shaun Stafford in the Bank of the West Classic in Oakland, California
1994 History
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 3 Kepa Arrizabalaga, Spanish football goalkeeper (Real Madrid, Spain), born in Ondarroa, Spain
- Oct 6 Loyle Carner [Benjamin Coyle-Larner], English rapper (Not Waving, but Drowning), born in London, England
- Oct 9 Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress (Silent Hill), born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
- Oct 11 T. J. Watt, American NFL player (Pittsburgh Steelers), born in Pewaukee, Wisconsin
- Oct 15 Sebastián Yatra, Colombian singer (Dos Oruguitas), born in Medellín, Colombia
- Oct 16 Alice Oseman, English writer (Heartstopper), born in Chatham, England
- Oct 20 Morgan Featherstone, Australian child model, born in Brisbane, Australia
- Oct 23 Margaret Qualley, American actress (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), born in Kalispell, Montana
- Oct 24 Jalen Ramsey, American NFL cornerback (Jacksonville Jaguars, LA Rams, Miami Dolphins), born in Smyrna, Tennessee
- Oct 31 Spencer Achtymichuk, Canadian actor (The Final Cut)
Famous Weddings
Whoopi Goldberg
Oct 1 Actress Whoopi Goldberg (38) weds labor union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg in California
Famous Deaths
- Oct 1 Brad O'Hare, American actor, dies of complications of HIV/AIDS at 43
- Oct 1 Bud Houser, American field athlete (Olympic gold discus & shot put 1924, discus 1928), dies at 93
- Oct 1 Carlos Lleras Restrepo, President of Colombia (1966-70), dies at 86
- Oct 1 Karoli Ruth Needles, painter, dies at 54
- Oct 1 Marjorie Weaver, American actress (Michael Shayne: Private Detective, Young Mr Lincoln), dies from a stroke at 81
- Oct 1 Paul Lorenzen, German philosopher (b. 1915)
- Oct 1 Ronald Herron, English architect (Archigram), dies at 64
- Oct 1 Scott Dunbar, American blues vocalist and guitarist, dies at 90
- Oct 2 Faith Davis, American triplets, world's oldest surviving triplets (Charity & Hope survive), dies at 95
- Oct 2 Harriet (Hilliard) Nelson [Peggy Lou Snyder], American singer and actress (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; Follow the Fleet), dies of heart failure at 85 [1]
- Oct 2 Ron Herron, English architect (Archigram), dies at 64
- Oct 3 Dennis Wolfberg, American comedian (Quantum Leap), dies from cancer at 48
- Oct 3 Dub Taylor [Walter Clarence Taylor Jr], American character actor (Gunsmoke), dies from a heart attack at 87
- Oct 3 Heinz Rühmann, German actor and director (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick), dies at 92
- Oct 3 Virginia Dale, American actress and dancer (Holiday Inn), dies at about 77
- Oct 4 Bill Challis, American jazz arranger and pianist, dies at 90
- Oct 4 Daniel Wood "Danny" Gatton, American guitarist (88 Elmira St.), commits suicide at 48
- Oct 4 F. Gwendolen Rees, Welsh zoologist and parasitologist, dies at 88
- Oct 4 Heinz Rohmann, German actor/dir (Brave Soldier Schwejk), dies at 92
- Oct 4 Scoville "Toby" Browne, American jazz saxophone and clarinet player, dies at 84
- Oct 7 James Hill, director, dies at 75
- Oct 7 Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
- Oct 7 Paul Swift, American actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60
- Oct 8 Brian Hartley, British mathematician, dies at 55
- Oct 8 Diana Churchill, English actress (Spider, Sally Bishop, Housemaster), dies at 81
- Oct 8 Manual Pina, Spanish fashion Designer, dies at 50
- Oct 9 Fred Lebow, US founder of New York Marathon, dies of cancer
- Oct 9 James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75
- Oct 9 Joan Dickson, British cellist and teacher, dies at 72
- Oct 9 Raich Carter, English soccer forward (13 caps; Sunderland, Derby County, Hull C) and manager (Hull C, Leeds, Mansfield Town, Middlesborough), dies from a stroke at 80
- Oct 10 Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95
- Oct 10 Chaim Raphael, English Jewish scholar and writer, dies at 86
- Oct 10 Nikolai Nikolayevich Karetnikov, Russian composer, dies at 64
- Oct 10 Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist, dies at 74
- Oct 11 Maja Bulgakova, Ukrainian actress (Krylja), dies in auto-accident at 62
- Oct 11 Nic Jonk, sculptor/painter (Nereus on Zeepaard), dies at 66
- Oct 12 Gérald Godin, French Canadian poet and politician, dies at 55
- Oct 14 Gioconda de Vito, Italian-British violinist, dies at 87
- Oct 15 Hannes Wustinger, Austrian race car driver, dies in a crash during a race at 29
- Oct 15 Karl Edward Wagner, American sci-fi author (Bloodstone, Night Winds), dies at 48
- Oct 15 Sarah Kofman, French philosopher, dies at 60
- Oct 17 Barbara Grigor, Scottish filmmaker and art entrepreneur, dies at 50
- Oct 17 Dmitri Cholodov, Russian journalist, murdered at 27
- Oct 17 Gus Risman, Welsh rugby league centre, fullback (18 Tests Wales, 17 Great Britain, 1 England; Salford RLFC, Workington Town RLFC) and coach (Bradford Northern, Salford, Workington Town), dies at 83
- Oct 17 Ralph Hill, American athlete (Olympic silver 5,000m 1932; same time as winner Lauri Lehtinen), dies at 85
- Oct 17 Rik van Bentum, painter/art director of Paradiso, dies at 57
- Oct 18 Lee Allen, American tenor sax player ("Walkin' With Mr Lee"), dies of cancer at 68
- Oct 18 Richard A. Garland, artist and photographer, dies at 60
- Oct 18 WiIlliam Faure, South African film producer (Shaka Zulu), dies of kidney failure at 45
- Oct 19 Martha Raye [Margaret Reed], American actress (Waikiki Wedding, Martha Raye Show), dies after illness at 78
- Oct 19 Oldrich Cernik, Czechoslovakia premier (1968-70), dies at 72
- Oct 19 Stanislaw Brunstein, Polish-British artist who specialized in images of the lost world of Jewish Poland, dies at 79
- Oct 20 (Charles) Robert Medley, English abstract and figurative style painter, dies at 88
Burt Lancaster (1913-1994)
Oct 20 American actor (From Here to Eternity; Elmer Gantry; Birdman of Alcatraz; Field of Dreams), dies of a heart attack at 80
- Oct 20 Eberhard Feik, German actor (Tatort), dies at 50
- Oct 20 Francis Steegmuller, American biographer (Cocteau), dies at 88
- Oct 20 Ivan Sviták, Czech philosopher and poet, dies at 69
- Oct 20 Robert Medley, English artist and theater designer, dies at 88
- Oct 20 Sergei Bondarchuk, Soviet director and actor (Destiny of a Man, War and Peace), dies of a heart attack at 74
- Oct 21 Jerome Bert Weisner, American engineer (science advisor to John. F Kennedy, President of MIT 1971-80), dies at 79
- Oct 22 Chester WIlliams, painter, dies at 73
- Oct 22 David Buchan, Scottish ethnomusicologist, dies at 55
- Oct 22 Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies
- Oct 22 Harold Horace Hopkins, British physicist and inventor (Endoscope), dies at 75
- Oct 22 James "Jimmy" Miller, American record producer and musician (The Rolling Stones), dies of liver failure at 52
- Oct 22 Rollo May, American psychologist (Love & Will), dies at 85
- Oct 22 Sandy Horn, lesbian Activist, dies at 59
- Oct 22 William Frankena, American philosopher, dies at 86
- Oct 23 Robert Lansing [Brown], American stage and screen actor (12 O'Clock High; The Equalizer), dies of cancer at 66
- Oct 23 William Leonard, head (CBS News), dies of a stroke at 78
- Oct 24 Alexandr Nikolaievich Shelepin, dir of KGB (1958-61), dies
- Oct 24 Gamini Dissanayake, Sri Lankain presidential candidate, murdered
- Oct 24 Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (Addams Family), dies of stroke at 54
- Oct 25 David Cox, British medievalist, dies at 81
- Oct 25 Lillian Hayman, American actress (Leslie Uggams Show), dies at 72
- Oct 25 Mildred Natwick, American stage and screen actress (Barefoot in the Park; She Wore a Yellow Ribbon; The House Without a Christmas Tree), dies at 89
- Oct 26 Rudi van Vlaenderen, Flemish actor/dir/poet (Thyestes), dies at 64
- Oct 26 Tutta Rolf, actress (Whalers), dies at 87
- Oct 26 Wilbert Harrison, American R&B singer ("Kansas City"), dies at 65
- Oct 27 Robert White, American guitarist (The Funk Brothers), dies of complications from open heart surgery at 57
- Oct 27 Wally Halder, Canadian ice hockey forward (Olympic gold 1948, tournament top scorer), dies of cancer at 69
- Oct 28 Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies
- Oct 29 Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer (Picture Page; Dressing Up), dies at 84
- Oct 29 Evelyn Anderson, American dancer (Josephine Baker review), dies at 87 [1]
- Oct 29 Pearl Primus, Trinidad-born American dancer (poplularized African dance), dies at 74
- Oct 30 Martyn Wiley, writer/broadcaster, dies at 40
- Oct 30 Nyanaponika [Siegmund Feniger], German scholar/author, dies at 93
- Oct 31 John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian and director of British Museum (1974-76), dies at 80
- Oct 31 Jole Silvani [Niobe Quaiatti], Italian actress (La citta' Delle), dies
- Oct 31 Lester Sill, American pioneer music publisher (Leiber and Stoller; Lee Hazlewood), and record label executive (Philles Records; Colpix; Colgems), dies at 76
- Oct 31 William John Readings, literary theorist, dies at 34