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- !October events - Version 9.06\=
- B10021800 Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion
- B10061930 Hafez al Assad, president (Syria)
- B10071906 James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68)
- B100819-- [Gregory] Chad Petree, Shawne Okla, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)\-
- B10081974 Douglas Emerson, actor (Scott-Beverly Hills 90210)\-
- B10081979 [Gregory] Chad Petree, Shawne Okla, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
- B10091961 Liz Sagal, LA Calif, actress (Allison-Double Trouble, Grease 2)\=
- B10091961 Jean Sagal, LA Calif, actress (Kate-Double Trouble, Grease 2)\=
- B10121954 Ronald E McNair, astronaut (STS-10, STS-25)\-
- B101419-- Arleen Sorkin, actress (Day of Our Life\-
- B10141967 Arleen Sorkin, actress (Day of Our Life, America's Funniest Videos)
- B10171817 Samuel Ringgold Ward, Maryland, minister/abolitionist/author
- B101919-- Tony Lo Bianco, Bkln NY, actor (Alex-Jessie)\-
- B101919-- David Lewis, actor (General Hospital)\-
- B10221917 Joan Fontaine, Tokyo Japan, actress (Gunga Din, Ivanhoe, Rebecca)\=
- B10231956 Dwight Yoakum, country singer (If There Was a Way)\=
- B102719-- Deborah Moore, London England, actress (Danielle=-Day of Our Lives)\-
- B10271946 Peter Martins
- B10271963 Deborah Moore, London England, actress (Danielle=-Day of Our Lives)
- B102819-- Dennis Franz, actor (Hill St Blues, Beverly Hills Buntz)\-
- B10281955 William Gates, billionaire CEO (Microsoft)
- D01011960 Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), dies at 58 from an OD
- D10031979 Charles White, artist, dies at 61 in Los Angeles
- D10041991 Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83
- D10091806 Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74\=
- D10101978 Ralph H Metcalfe, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 68
- D10121945 Jesse James Payne, lynched in Madison County Florida
- D10161849 George Washington Williams, Penns, 1st major black historian
- D10241972 Jackie Robinson, dies at 53
- D10261868 B F Randolph, SC state senator, assassinated
- D10261991 Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella
- D10281991 John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51
- D10291981 William O Walker, publisher of the Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85
- H1009 [Uganda] Independence Day (1962) [dup]\-
- H1016 [World] World Food Day\=
- H1016 World Food Day [dup]\-
- I1001 530 [Christian] Comm of St Remigius, bishop of Rheims, confessor[dup]\-
- S10011893 3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi)
- S10011937 Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
- S10011948 Calif Supreme Court voids state statue banning interracial marriages
- S10011951 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated
- S10021942 "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
- S10021970 Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
- S10021972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
- S10031904 Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal & Industrial School
- S10031928 French sun "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
- S10031949 WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
- S10041864 New Orleans Tribune, first black daily newspaper, forms
- S10041864 National black convention meets (Syracuse NY)
- S10041964 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81
- S10051864 Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die)\=
- S10061972 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
- S10061979 Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9"\=
- S10071737 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
- S10071871 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters
- S10071963 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190
- S10071991 Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics
- S10081775 Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army
- S10081822 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
- S10081871Cbuildings, & original Emancipation Proclamation
- S10081952 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England)
- S10091837 Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100
- S10091961 Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
- S10091990 Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
- S10101780 Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean
- S10101888 Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)
- S10101961 Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
- S10101987 Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"
- S10111737 Earthquake kills 300,000 & destroys ½ of Calcutta India
- S10111972 Prison uprising at Washington DC jail
- S10111984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space\-
- S10121822 2nd eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain
- S10121886 Hurricane & sea surge kills 250 at Indianola Texas
- S10121918 Cloquet Minn & 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die
- S10121972 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk
- S10131919 Race riot at Elaine Arkansas
- S10131970 Angela Davis arrested in NYC
- S10131972 Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die
- S10131980 Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, NY
- S10141969 Race riots in Springfield Mass
- S10141971 2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances
- S10151877 45th Congress (1877-79) convenes
- S10151883 Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
- S10151890 Alabama Penny Savings Bank organizes in Birmingham
- S10151974 National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing
- S10161849 Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
- S10161876 Race riot at Cainhoy SC (5 whites & 1 black killed)
- S10161926 Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200
- S10161940 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army
- S10161942 Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
- S10161973 Maynard Jackson elected mayor of Atlanta
- S10171787 Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities
- S10171871 President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus
- S10181954 Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US
- S10191870 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps
- S10191943 Theater Guild presentation of "Othello" opens at Shubert
- S10191960 Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in
- S10201898 NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms
- S10201942 "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations
- S10201944 30 blocks of Cleveland Oh burns after a liquid gas factory explodes
- S10211966 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in S Wales\=
- S10211975 Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives
- S10221906 3000 blacks demonstrate & riot in Phila
- S10221949 200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor Poland
- S10221963 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest
- S10222136 -BC- Chinese make 1st record of a solar eclipse\=
- S10231775 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
- S10231805 Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340
- S10231947 NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN
- S10231990 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
- S10241935 Italy invades Ethiopia
- S10241947 Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States)
- S10241973 Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on NJ Turnpike
- S10251915 Atty James L Curtis named minister of Liberia
- S10251918 Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die\=
- S10251935 Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie & Jacmel Haiti
- S10251976Csurvivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape
- S10251976CGov Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known
- S10261868 White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La
- S10261876 President sends federal troops to SC
- S10261921 Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia
- S10261977 Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of NY
- S10271893 Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Ga & Charleston SC
- S10271954 B O Davis Jr becomes 1st black general in USAF
- S10271959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
- S10271978 President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
- S10271981 Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia\=
- S10281891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
- S10281914 Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates
- S10281942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
- S10281981 Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia
- S10291867 Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands
- S10291924 "Dixie to Broadway," opens at Broadhurst Theater
- S10291960 Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
- S10301948 20 die & 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania
- S10301954 Defense Department announces elimination of all segregated regiments
- S10301965 Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Columbia
- S10301976 Rev Joseph Evans elected president of the United Church of Christ
- S10301979 Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham
- S10311963 Leaking propane gas explodes, kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (Indiana)
- S10311969 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
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- B10031951 Kathryn D Sullivan, Paterson NJ, PhD/astro (STS 41-G, 28, 31, 45)\=
- B10051958 Brent W Jett Jr, Pontiac Mich, USN Lt Commander/astronaut
- B10101958 John M Grunsfeld, Chicago Ill, PhD/astronaut