- Oct 1 Howard Stern adds Baltimore to his radio network (WJFK-AM)
- Oct 1 New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991 commences.
- Oct 1 Soviet Union suspends petroleum product exports as its fuel shortages grow
NHL History
Oct 2 NHL #1 draft pick Eric Lindros rejects Quebec Nordiques' offer of a 10 year, $50m contract
Steffi Graf Wins #500
Oct 2 Steffi Graf beats Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria 6-2, 6-2 in the Volkswagen Cup in Leipzig to become the youngest woman to win 500 professional tennis matches
- Oct 2 Toronto Blue Jays clinch AL East title with a 6-5 win v California Angels; become first sport franchise in history to draw 4 million fans in one season
Country Music Association Awards
Oct 3 25th Country Music Association Awards: Garth Brooks, Tanya Tucker & Vince Gill win
- Oct 4 Delta Center in Salt Lake City Utah
NHL Trade
Oct 4 Edmonton Oilers trade captain Mark Messier (on the team for all 5 Stanley Cups) to the NY Rangers in exchange for Bernie Nicholls, Steven Rice & Louie DeBrusk; Messier leads Rangers to Cup 2 seasons later
- Oct 4 San Jose Sharks play first NHL game in franchise history, a 4-3 loss in Vancouver; native Californian Craig Coxe scores club's first goal while Jeff Hackett makes an impressive 48 saves
- Oct 4 The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
- Oct 4 Whiteland Janice, driven by Mike Lachance, wins Kentucky Futurity
- Oct 5 Fresno State ties NCAA football record with 49 points in a quarter (2nd), as they route New Mexico, 94-17 at Bulldog Stadium, Fresno
- Oct 5 Military transport plane crashes at Jakarta, 133 dies
- Oct 5 The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
- Oct 5 USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal
Baseball Record
Oct 6 NY Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies
- Oct 6 Orioles' last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers)
- Oct 7 Child star Adam Rich (Eight Is Enough) arrested for stealing hypodermics
Event of Interest
Oct 7 Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments to her
- Oct 7 Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal & Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in NY thoroughbred racing history
- Oct 8 Discovery of a African-American cemetery in Manhattan announced - largest and earliest burial ground of free and enslaved Africans in America, later a National Monument [1]
Event of Interest
Oct 8 The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia
- Oct 9 "On Borrowed Time" opens at Circle in Square Theater, NYC; runs for 99 performances
- Oct 9 Bush declares "total confidence" in nominee Clarence Thomas
- Oct 9 Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
- Oct 9 San Jose Sharks beat Calgary for their 1st NHL win, 4-3
- Oct 10 Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
- Oct 10 Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy
- Oct 10 US cuts all foreign aid to Haiti
- Oct 11 Chip Beck ties PGA record lowest 18 hole score of 59 during 3rd round of the Las Vegas Invitational at the Sunrise GC
- Oct 11 Law Professor Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her
- Oct 11 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart seen soliciting a prostitute
- Oct 12 Boxer Hector Comacho arrested for driving while getting oral sex
Sports History
Oct 12 Doug Flutie of BC Lions sets CFL passing record of 582 yards despite losing to Edmonton Eskimos, 45-38 in overtime
- Oct 12 Mike Lerch of Princeton ties NCAA record with 370 receiving yards
- Oct 12 Professional wrestler Rip is Oliver forced to retire after being injured by Crush
- Oct 12 Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN
- Oct 13 Blue Jay Cito Gaston is 1st manager ejected in a playoff game
- Oct 13 Minnesota Twins win AL pennant beating Toronto in 5 games
- Oct 13 MLB American League Championship: Minnesota Twins beat Toronto Blue Jays, 4 games to 1
Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 14 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize
Sports History
Oct 14 NY Rangers right wing Mike Gartner becomes 1st NHL player to score his 500th goal, 500th assist, and 1000th point all in the same season
- Oct 15 Clarence Thomas is confirmed as a US Supreme Court Justice (52-48)
- Oct 15 Oh-My-God particle - most powerful cosmic ray ever detected, by Fly's Eye camera at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, measuring 320 EeV - 40million x more powerful than any terrestrial particle accelerator [1]
- Oct 16 Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the league's anti-drug agreement
- Oct 16 George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas
- Oct 16 Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
- Oct 16 US Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case
Sports History
Oct 17 Ángel Cordero Jr. is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races
- Oct 17 Blue Man Group's 1st performance in New York City
- Oct 17 MLB National League Championship: Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 4 games to 3
- Oct 17 News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discussing her having a disformed baby
Sports History
Oct 17 Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals & 744 assists)
My Own Private Idaho
Oct 18 "My Own Private Idaho" directed and written by Gus van Sant starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves is released
The Most Happy Fella
Oct 18 Revival of Frank Loesser's 1956 musical "The Most Happy Fella" closes at NY State Theater, NYC, after a limited run by the New York City Opera
- Oct 18 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Oct 19 Longest NCAA football game (3:52) as Rhode Island beats Maine, 52-30 (6 OT)
- Oct 19 Lonnie Glieberman purchased Ottawa Rough Riders from CFL
- Oct 20 "André Heller's Wonderhouse", starring Billy Barty, opens at Broadhurst Theatre, NYC; runs for 9 performances
- Oct 20 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die
F1 World Champion
Oct 20 Brazilian McLaren driver Ayrton Senna clinches his 2nd straight, and 3rd overall F1 World Drivers Championship by finishing 2nd in the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka
- Oct 20 Formal opening ceremony of Intl One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colo
- Oct 21 24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif
Event of Interest
Oct 21 Former California Governor Jerry Brown announces his run for the US Presidency
- Oct 21 US hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut
- Oct 22 General Motors announces 9 month loss of $US2.2 billion
- Oct 23 Clarence Thomas sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
Event of Interest
Oct 23 Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine assists 2 women to commit suicide
- Oct 24 Brian Friels' stage drama "Dancing at Lughnasa" opens at Plymouth Theater, NYC; runs for 421 performances, wins 3 Tony Awards
- Oct 24 Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders
- Oct 25 Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs v India in cricket 1-dayer at Sharjah
- Oct 27 "André Heller's Wonderhouse", starring Billy Barty, closes at Broadhurst Theatre, NYC, after 9 performances
World Series
Oct 27 Baseball World Series: Minnesota Twins beat Atlanta Braves, 1-0 in 10 in Game 7 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome; win 2nd title since move to Minneapolis; MVP: Twins pitcher Jack Morris
Event of Interest
Oct 27 Revival of Harold Pinter's stage drama "The Homecoming" opens at Criterion Theater. NYC; for limited run of 49 performances
- Oct 29 American commercial fishing vessel (F/V) 'Andrea Gail' and crew of 6 lost at sea near Sable Island in North Atlantic Ocean; story becomes basis for book and film "The Perfect Storm"
- Oct 29 Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as NY Yankee manager
- Oct 30 Colombian government negotiate with M-19-guerrilla
- Oct 30 Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain
- Oct 31 Palestinians attend US mideast peace talks in Madrid
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