Historical Events in October, Month of October Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| October 18, 33 | Heartbroken by the deaths of her sons Nero and Drusus, and banished to the island of Pandateria by Tiberius, Agrippina the Elder dies of self-inflicted starvation. |
| October 1, 1987 | The 5.9 Mw Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley with a Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 200. |
| October 28, 1835 | The United Tribes of New Zealand are established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence. |
| October 14, 1980 | The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party ended, having anointed North Korean President Kim Il-sung's son Kim Jong-il as his successor.[11] |
| October 3, 2015 | Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan. |
| October 22, 1983 | Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons. |
| October 25, 1616 | Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast. |
| October 16, 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point). |
| October 3, 1946 | An American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crashes near Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, killing 39. |
| October 12, 1999 | Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup. |
| October 2, 1990 | Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132. |
| October 26, 1989 | China Airlines Flight 204 crashes after takeoff from Hualien Airport in Taiwan, killing all 54 people on board. |
| October 24, 1998 | Deep Space 1 is launched to explore the asteroid belt and test new spacecraft technologies. |
| October 17, 1989 | The 6.9 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63. |
| October 27, 1930 | Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories. |
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