1^st October

• 1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison.

3^rd October

• 1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
• 1985 - Space Shuttle Atlantis flies its maiden voyage.

4^th October

• 1957 - Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

5^th October

• 1864 - The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
• 1962 - The First James Bond movie, Dr. No, is released.

6^th October

• 1977 - The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.

8^th October

• 1932 - The Indian Air Force is established.

11^th October

• 1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.

14^th October

• 1968 - First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft Apollo 7.

16^th October

• 1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1964 - People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.

17^th October

• 1979 - Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1992 - The United Nations General Assembly declares October 17 as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, to be observed beginning in 1993. Resolution 47/196 of 22 December 1992.

18^th October

• 1944 - Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.

19^th October

• 2003 - Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
• 2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

20^th October

• 1973 - The Sydney Opera House opens.
• 2004 - The first Ubuntu Linux distribution is released.

21^st October

• 1945 - Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.

22^nd October

• 1965 - End of the Second Kashmir War between India and Pakistan.
• 1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.

24^th October

• 1929 - "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.

25^th October

• 2001 - Microsoft Corporation releases their new computer operating system software, Windows XP to the public.

26^th October

• 1947 - The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.

28^th October

• 1981 - The heavy metal band Metallica is founded.

30^th October

• 1922 - Benito Mussolini was made Prime Minister of Italy
• 2006 - The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex surpasses the 13,000 points mark for the first time in its history.

31^st October

• 1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards (riots soon broke out in New Delhi and nearly 2,000 innocent Sikhs were killed).