- Oct 1 Bermuda begins using new area code 441
- Oct 1 Cleveland Indians end MLB season at 100-44 to set record 30 game margin over 2nd place Kansas City Royals in AL Central final standings
Farm Aid Concert
Oct 1 Farm Aid VIII held in Louisville, Kentucky; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Hootie and the Blowfish, Dave Matthews Band, John Conlee, and Steve Earle [1]
- Oct 1 Future Baseball HOF pitcher Mike Mussina tosses Baltimore Orioles' 5th consecutive MLB shutout in season ending, 4-0 victory over Detroit Tigers
F1 World Champion
Oct 1 German Benetton driver Michael Schumacher wins the Pacific Grand Prix at the TI Circuit in Aida, Japan to clinch his 2nd straight Formula 1 World Drivers Championship
- Oct 1 In the 5th game of the season, Jacksonville Jaguars celebrate first-ever NFL regular season win with a 17-16 victory over the Houston Oilers at the Astrodome
- Oct 1 NY Yankees (AL) and Colorado Rockies (NL) become first wild-card teams in new MLB playoff system; Rox are first team to reach postseason before 7th year; post best ever record for a 3rd-year team, 10 games over .500 (77-67)
- Oct 2 "Moon Over Buffalo" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 308 performances
- Oct 3 1st first-class match at Hurstville Oval, Sydney (NSW vs Western Australia)
Murder of Interest
Oct 3 Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman in Los Angeles, California
- Oct 3 In a huge 3-way hockey trade of high profile NHL forwards, Claude Lemieux is sent to Colorado Avalanche, Steve Thomas to New Jersey Devils and Wendell Clark to the New York Islanders
- Oct 4 29th Country Music Association Awards: Krauss Jackson wins
- Oct 4 Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners
- Oct 5 "Company" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 performances
- Oct 6 51 Pegasi discovered as the first major star, apart from the Sun, to have a planet orbiting around it
- Oct 6 BPAA US Women's Open won by Cheryl Daniels
- Oct 6 Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
- Oct 7 Boston's Fleet Center opens, NY Islanders & Boston Bruins tie at 4-4
- Oct 7 Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees
NFL Record
Oct 8 Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record
- Oct 8 Edgar Martinez drives home tying & winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees & win AL Division Series
- Oct 10 "Garden District" opens at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC
- Oct 10 Israel begins West Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
- Oct 10 Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
- Oct 10 Robert E Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics
- Oct 11 John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches
- Oct 11 O.J. Simpson cancels a TV appearance on Dateline
- Oct 12 "Patti LuPone on Broadway" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 46 performances
- Oct 13 Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Polish physicist Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, for their work to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons
Film & TV History
Oct 13 Pamela Anderson Lee rushed to hospital with flu like symptoms
Sports History
Oct 16 Brian Lara scores 169 in Sharjah ODI versus Sri Lanka
- Oct 16 Million Man March held in Washington, D.C. (over 830,000 African American men attend)
- Oct 16 ODI in Sharjah WI 7-333 in 50 overs beat Sri Lanka 329 all out
- Oct 17 Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000
- Oct 17 MLB American League Championship: Cleveland Indians beat Seattle Mariners, 4 games to 2
- Oct 18 NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix
- Oct 19 Revival of Jerry Herman's musical "Hello Dolly!", starring Carol Channing, opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, NYC; runs for 118 performances
- Oct 20 Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final
- Oct 20 STS 73 (Columbia 18) launches into orbit
- Oct 21 Addison Vance, 18, of Hickory NC, crowned 7th Ms Venus Swimwear
- Oct 21 Mario Tremblay, selected 22nd NHL coach of Montreal Canadians
- Oct 22 "Swinging On a Star" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 97 performances
- Oct 23 "The MacNeil-Lehrer Report" becomes "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", upon Robert MacNeil's retirement (currently known as "PBS NewsHour") on PBS
- Oct 24 Total solar eclipse in SW/S Asia (2m09s)
Knighthood
Oct 25 British pop-rock singer Cliff Richard receives his knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II, - 1st rock star to be knighted
Victor/Victoria
Oct 25 Henry Mancini, Leslie Bricusse, and Blake Edwards' musical adaptation of the film "Victor/Victoria", starring Julie Andrews, opens at Marquis Theater, NYC; runs for 738 performances; Andrews declined Tony Award nomination because she felt other cast and crew should have been recognized
Leaving Las Vegas
Oct 27 Dramatic film "Leaving Las Vegas" directed by Mike Figgis and starring Nicolas Cage (Oscar for Best Actor) and Elisabeth Shue premieres
- Oct 27 Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
- Oct 27 South African fast bowler Meyrick Pringle takes cricket hat-trick in England tour game at Soweto
- Oct 28 11th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats England 16-8
- Oct 28 7th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 20-10 in South Bend
World Series
Oct 28 Baseball World Series: Atlanta Braves beat Cleveland Indians, 1-0 in Game 6 at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium to win their 3rd title; MVP: Braves starter Tom Glavine
- Oct 28 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Belmont Park; winners: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled's Song
- Oct 29 Return engagement of Bill Irwin and Dacid Shiner's "Fool Moon" opens at Ambassador Theater, NYC; runs for 81 performances
- Oct 29 Sunday NY News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25
- Oct 30 Québec votes in a referendum to remain part of Canada
- Oct 31 American jam band Phish performs The Who's "Quadrophenia" as a musical costume during a show at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois
- Oct 31 NHL NJ Devils agree to stay in NJ
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