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Historical Events

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Oct 3rd - Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution
Oct 3rd - Pope John Paul II declares Titus Brandsma divine
Oct 3rd - South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution
Oct 4th - Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia
Oct 4th - Shite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
Oct 4th - Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA.
Oct 5th - Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game
Oct 6th - Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia
Oct 6th - Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
Oct 6th - PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
Oct 7th - 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
Oct 7th - KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash's final transmission
Oct 7th - Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters
Oct 7th - PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
Oct 8th - "Rembrandt & Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam
Oct 8th - Alain Boubil/Herbert Kretzner's "Les Miserables," premieres in London
Oct 8th - Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident
Oct 9th - "Tango Argentino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 198 perfs
Oct 9th - Central Park's Strawberry Fields, dedicated
Oct 9th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Oct 10th - Sudan adopts interim constitution
Oct 10th - US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
Oct 11th - Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
Oct 11th - Pres Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
Oct 11th - US intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists
Oct 12th - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61A mission
Oct 12th - Intl Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize
Oct 12th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Oct 13th - "Sunday in the Park with George" closes at Booth NYC after 604 perfs
Oct 13th - Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election
Oct 13th - During NLCS, Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is caught in Busch Stadium's automated tarpaulin
Oct 14th - 19th Country Music Assn Award: Ricky Skaggs wins
Oct 14th - On Mon Night football, Jets retire Joe Namath's #12, beat Miami 23-7
Oct 15th - Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani
Oct 15th - Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit
Oct 15th - Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds
Oct 16th - Challenger vehicle moves to launch pad for STS 61A mission
Oct 16th - Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip
Oct 16th - KC Royals & St Louis Cardinals win their league championships
Oct 16th - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman & Jerome Karle
Oct 17th - French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature
Oct 17th - Lou Piniella named NY Yankee manager
Oct 21st - Qasim Omar (206) & Javed Miandad (203*) make 397 stand v SL
Oct 22nd - Bret Saberhagen gives KC Royals their 1st World Series win
Oct 25th - Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract
Oct 25th - Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
Oct 26th - -Nov 6] Hurricane Juan, kills 97 in US
Oct 26th - On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the World Series
Oct 27th - 15th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:34
Oct 27th - 16th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:11:34
Oct 27th - Anthony Carter begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
Oct 27th - Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time
Oct 27th - Hurricane Juan ravages US Gulf states & east coast, 49 die
Oct 27th - KC Royals beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
Oct 27th - Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's
Oct 28th - Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka v Pakistan
Oct 29th - Cards' Joaquin Andujar suspended for 10 games for bumping an ump
Oct 29th - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
Oct 30th - 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched
Oct 31st - Last day in Test cricket for Zaheer Abbas
Nov 1st - Neth decides definative sites for cruise missiles
Nov 1st - Nostalgia Television begins on cable
Nov 2nd - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge
Nov 3rd - Argentine pres Alfonsíns Radical Burgerunie wins elections
Nov 3rd - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
Nov 5th - "News" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 4 performances
Nov 6th - 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB
Nov 6th - Exploratory well at Ranger Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil
Nov 6th - M-19 guerrilla's occupies Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia
Nov 6th - Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards Calif
Nov 7th - Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice
Nov 8th - Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-B mission
Nov 9th - "News" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 4 performances
Nov 9th - Gary Kasparov becomes world chess champion
Nov 9th - Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 v Australia at the Gabba
Nov 9th - Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed
Nov 10th - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
Nov 11th - 1st AIDS theme TV movie - "An Early Frost"
Nov 11th - Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
Nov 11th - Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing
Nov 12th - R Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match v Australia at Brisbane
Nov 12th - STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
Nov 12th - Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb
Nov 12th - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct
Nov 13th - Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
Nov 13th - Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
Nov 14th - Brewers release 39-year-old pitcher Rollie Fingers
Nov 14th - Holmfriour Karlsottir of Iceland, 22, crowned 35th Miss World
Nov 14th - Volcano Nevado del Ruiz Colombia erupts, 1000s killed
Nov 15th - A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
Nov 17th - Howard Stern begins broadcasting on 92.3 WXRK FM NY
Nov 17th - NY Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay 62-28
Nov 18th - Dwight Gooden (NL) & Bret Saberhagen (AL) win Cy Young
Nov 18th - Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
Nov 18th - Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)
Nov 18th - Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us"
Nov 19th - Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport," premieres in NYC
Nov 19th - Pres Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time
Nov 20th - NY Yankee Don Mattingly easily wins AL MVP
Nov 20th - Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

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