Sports History
Oct 1 Future Baseball Hall of Fame player and manager Leo Durocher ends his 45 year career in the sport when he resigns as Houston Astros manager
- Oct 1 USSR-West Germany gas tunnel opens
Event of Interest
Oct 3 Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as State Council of the German Democratic Republic
- Oct 4 Hans of Manens ballet "Adagio Hammerklavier" premieres in Amsterdam
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Oct 5 "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" 7th studio album by Elton John is released
F1 World Champion
Oct 7 Scotsman Jackie Stewart wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship despite withdrawing from the season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen; wins title by 16 points from Emerson Fittipaldi
- Oct 8 OPEC meets with oil companies to discuss revision of 1971 Tehran agreement and oil prices; negotiations fail.
- Oct 8 Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece
- Oct 9 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942
- Oct 9 Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal
- Oct 9 Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors
- Oct 10 MLB National League Championship: New York Mets beat Cincinnati Reds, 3 games to 2
Event of Interest
Oct 10 US Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after pleading no contest to allegations of tax fraud
Event of Interest
Oct 12 US President Richard Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as Vice President
Badlands
Oct 13 "Badlands" directed by Terrence Malick and starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek premieres at the New York Film Festival
- Oct 13 Jordan enters Yom Kippur war
TV Show Appearance
Oct 13 Teri Garr appears on "The Bob Newhart Show" in the episode "Emily in for Carol"
Sports History
Oct 14 42-year-old future Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder Willie Mays' last MLB career hit, as NY Mets beat A's, 10-7 in World Series Game 2 in Oakland
- Oct 14 Egyptian tanks move further into Israel
- Oct 15 7th Country Music Association Awards: Roy Clark wins
Jolene
Oct 15 Country music artist Dolly Parton releases her single "Jolene"
- Oct 15 Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed
- Oct 16 Israeli tanks under Gen Sharon move through Suez Canal
- Oct 16 Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta
- Oct 16 Monks Heng Yo & Heng Ju, start 1000 mile SF to Seattle pilgrimage
- Oct 16 The Gulf Six (Iran, Iraq, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar) unilaterally raise the posted price of Saudi Light marker crude-oil by 17 percent
Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 16 US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho controversially awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam that later failed
- Oct 17 OPEC oil ministers use oil as an economic weapon in the Arab-Israeli War, mandating a cut in exports and recommending an embargo against unfriendly states [1]
- Oct 18 Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin
- Oct 18 Judd Woldon & Robert Britten's musical"Raisin" opens at 46th St Theater, NYC for 847 performances
- Oct 18 Nobel prize for Economic Sciences awarded to American Wassily Leontief
- Oct 19 OPEC oil embargo on the United States begins as participating nations cease oil exports to the US and begin a series of production cuts [1]
Photograph
Oct 19 Ringo Starr releases music single "Photograph" in the UK
- Oct 19 Saudi Arabia, Libya, and other Arab states proclaim an embargo on oil exports to the United States
- Oct 20 Mariette Hartley appears on "The Bob Newhart Show" in the episode "Have You Met Miss Dietz?"
Sydney Opera House
Oct 20 Queen Elizabeth II opens the Sydney Opera House, at Bennelong Point in Sydney, Australia, after 14 years of construction
- Oct 20 The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes call letters to WYFR & moves station from NYC to Scituate, Massachusetts
- Oct 20 US President Nixon accepts the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus as they refuse orders to discharge Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, in what has become known as "The Saturday Night Massacre"; after the resignations, Acting Attorney General Robert Bork fires Cox
Sports History
Oct 20 US President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe to have been the greatest athlete of the 1st half of the 20th century
- Oct 21 23rd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Benny Parsons wins
World Series
Oct 21 Baseball World Series: defending champion Oakland A's beat NY Mets, 5-2 in Game 7 at Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum to retain title; A's manager Dick Williams immediately quits; MVP: A's outfielder Reggie Jackson
- Oct 21 Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
- Oct 22 Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon
- Oct 22 Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War
Sports History
Oct 23 19-year-old American tennis star Chris Evert retains her WTA Tour Championship at Boca Raton, Florida; beats Nancy Richey Gunter 6-3, 6-3 in the final
- Oct 23 Arab oil embargo extended to the Netherlands
Agreement of Interest
Oct 23 Richard Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge John Sirica
- Oct 23 UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
- Oct 23 Yankee GM & President Lee MacPhail named AL president
- Oct 24 Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on New Jersey Turnpike
Music History
Oct 24 John Lennon sues US government to admit FBI is tapping his phone, they deny doing so
- Oct 24 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
- Oct 25 Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship
Baseball Trade
Oct 25 Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock & Vic Harris
Baseball Trade
Oct 25 SF Giants trade Willie McCovey to San Diego Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell
- Oct 26 Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army
- Oct 26 President Nixon releases first White House tapes on Watergate scandal
- Oct 26 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Oct 26 Wings release single "Helen Wheels"
- Oct 27 1st time Islanders beat Rangers-3-2
- Oct 27 Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6
- Oct 28 Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record)
Event of Interest
Oct 28 Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, designed by architect B. V. Doshi, inaugurated by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
- Oct 29 Apple Records releases John Lennon's fourth studio album, "Mind Games" in US
Opening of the Bosphorus Bridge
Oct 30 The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time
Sports History
Oct 30 Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award
- Oct 31 Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers escape from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin using a hijacked helicopter
- Oct 31 Tom Seaver wins NL Cy Young Award
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