* October 21 to October 30, 1970 *
October 6th, 2005 at 2:40 pmOctober 21 - A U.S. Air Force plane makes an emergency landing near Leninakan, Soviet Union. The Soviets release the American officers, including two generals, November 10.
October 22 - Chilean army commander Rene Schneider is shot in Santiago; the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25.
October 24 - Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
October 26 - U.S. and Soviet space researchers meet in Moscow.
October 26 - Garry Trudeau’s comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
October 28 - In Jordan, the government of Ahmed Toukan resigns; the next prime minister is Wasfi Al-Tal.
October 28 - A cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia causes Hungary to close its border with Czechoslovakia.
October 28 - Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official world land speed record of 622.287 mph (1,001.452863 km/h) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.
October 30 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
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