Today in History for October 2002
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 14 of 14
2nd - The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
6th - The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
6th - Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized.
11th - A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
12th - Terrorists explode two bombs in Bali's nightclub district killing 202 and injuring 209 mostly foreign tourists
16th - Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
23rd - Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
24th - Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
26th - Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before.
27th - Anaheim Angels defeat San Francisco Giants 4-3 in baseball's World Series championship, MVP: Troy Glaus, Anaheim
27th - The ITV Network aired a constant regional service for the last time in England and Wales, but LWT lost its identity completely. All companies (except UTV, Channel, Scottish TV & Grampian TV) formed the national ITV1 with regional references only before regional programmes.
29th - Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
30th - British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview begins transmitting in parts of the United Kingdom.
31st - A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas formally indicted former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 40 of 40
1st - Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (b. 1908)
2nd - Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
3rd - Bruce Paltrow, American television and film producer (b. 1943)
3rd - Robert Krausz, Stock market advisor and investor (b. 1936)
4th - Alphonse Chapanis, founder of ergonomics (b. 1917)
4th - André Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
5th - Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
6th - Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
8th - Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
9th - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
9th - Aileen Wournos, American serial killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)
10th - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
11th - Dina Pathak, Indian Actress (b. 1922)
12th - Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)
12th - Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)
13th - Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)
14th - Norbert Schultze, American composer and songwriter (b. 1911)
16th - Angela Dawson, American murder victim
17th - Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) (b. 1935)
17th - Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (b. 1906)
18th - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932)
18th - Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (b. 1950)
20th - Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
20th - Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931)
22nd - Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)
23rd - Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1915)
24th - Herman Gaviria, Colombian football player (b. 1969)
24th - Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
24th - Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)
26th - Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
26th - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (b. 1979)
27th - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (b. 1925)
28th - Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
28th - Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1917)
29th - Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
30th - Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (b. 1965)
30th - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
31st - Lionel Poilâne, French baker and entrepreneur (b. 1945)
31st - Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician, former president of Greece (b. 1903)
31st - Raf Vallone, Italian actor (b. 1916)
