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1978-10-17
Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year
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10/1 - Comoros adopts constitution
10/1 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
10/1 - Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from UK
10/1 - Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians forcing a playoff game with Red Sox
10/1 - The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
10/2 - Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding
10/2 - Syrian & Palestinians shoot in East Beirutp~ 1p~300 killed
10/3 - Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
10/4 - Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
10/5 - Over 30 major nations ratify the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits environmental modification techniques
10/5 - Sweden's F_lldin government falls
10/5 - Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature
10/6 - Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of US university (Chic)
10/6 - Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
10/6 - "Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in ""Some Girls"""
10/6 - Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRsp~ Yanks win championship game 3p~ 6-5
10/7 - LA Dodgers win the pennant
10/7 - USSR performs nuclear test
10/8 - Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championshipp~ all against Kansas City
10/8 - Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph)
10/9 - 12th Country Music Association Award: Dolly Partonp~ Crystal Gayle & Don Williams wins
10/9 - "John Kander & Fred Ebb's musical ""Ballroomp~"" premieres in NYC"
10/10 - Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75
10/10 - Steve Perry joins Journey
10/10 - Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya
10/10 - Congress approves Susan B Anthony Dollar
10/10 - "British pop magazine ""Smash Hitsp~"" 1st published"
10/10 - Aerosmith's Steve Tyler & Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb
10/11 - Dodgers Bob Welch dramatically strikes out Reggie Jackson in 9th
10/11 - Belgium government of Tindemans resigns
10/11 - Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
10/12 - Representatives of Israel & Egypt open talks in Washington
10/13 - Pres Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio
10/13 - Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties
10/13 - Tiros Np~ US's 1st 3rd generation weather satellitep~ is launched
10/13 - Graig Nettles at 3rd makes many spectactular plays in WS game 3 as Guidry beats Dodgersp~ after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4
10/14 - Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10 making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-22-2-1
10/14 - NY Yank Reggie Jackson causes World Series controversy by getting in the way of a throw to 1st & deflects the ball away
10/14 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
10/14 - "1st TV movie from a TV series-""Rescue from Gilligan's Island"""
10/15 - Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open
10/15 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
10/16 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon
10/16 - Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected Pope John Paul II
10/16 - Test debut of Kapil Devp~ India v Pakistan at Faisalabad
10/17 - Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year
10/17 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
10/17 - Pres Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship
10/17 - NY Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8)
10/18 - 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance
10/18 - NY Islanders 1st scoreless tiep~ vs LA Kings
10/20 - US dollar devalued below Dutch _2
10/20 - Police's 1st US concert (NY's CBGBs)
10/20 - Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government
10/21 - Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbournep~ after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
10/22 - Pope John Paul II is inaugurated as Pope
10/22 - Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession
10/22 - Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8)
10/22 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Houston Exchange Golf Classic Clubs
10/22 - 9th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:12:12
10/22 - 8th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:32:30
10/22 - King of Hearts opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances
10/23 - CBS raises LP prices to $8.98
10/23 - China & Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension
10/23 - Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in NYC
10/24 - Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto
10/24 - NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs NY Islanders
10/25 - Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL)
10/25 - Israeli government approves ":in principlep~": a draft compromise peace
10/26 - Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
10/26 - Independent Counsel Act is signed into law.
10/27 - Begin & Sadat win Nobel Peace prize
10/27 - President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
10/28 - Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20)
10/30 - Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne primep~ 2 ^ 21701-1
10/30 - Uganda troops attack Tanzania
10/31 - Iranian oil workers go on strike
10/31 - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution