* October 2 to October 10, 1970 *
October 3rd, 2005 at 2:29 pmOctober 2 - The Wichita State University football team’s “Gold” plane crashes in Colorado, killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with Utah State University.
October 3 - In Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami resigns.
October 4 - In Bolivia, Army Commander General Rogelio Miranda and a group of officers rebel and demand the resignation of President Alfredo Ovando Candía, who fires him.
October 4 - Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose inside her hotel room in Los Angeles, California.
October 5 - U.S. President Nixon’s European tour ends.
October 5 - The Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnaps James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all its imprisoned members. The next day the Canadian government announces it won’t meet the demand, beginning Quebec’s October Crisis.
October 5 - The Public Broadcasting Service begins broadcasting.
October 6 - Bolivian President Alfredo Ovando Candía resigns General Rogelio Miranda takes over but resigns soon after.
October 6 - French President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union.
October 7 - General Juan José Torres becomes the new President of Bolivia.
October 7 - Anwar Sadat is accepted as Egyptian president.
October 8 - The U.S. Foreign Office announces that it will renew its arms sales to Pakistan.
October 8 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
October 8 - Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects U.S. President Richard Nixon’s October 7 peace proposal as “a maneuver to deceive world opinion.”
October 9 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
October 9 - Divorce is legalized in Italy.
October 10 - Fiji becomes independent.
October 10 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
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