The first miners from the 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Chile arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting rescue.The following day all 33 miners and rescuers where out of the mine.

The second Chinese human spaceflight ''Shenzhou 6'' launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.

Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.

The USS ''Cole'' is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39

The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.

Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.

Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.

NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere).

Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by republic's Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll.

Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.

Jaffna University Helidrop: Commandos of Indian Peace Keeping Force raided the Jaffna University campus to capture the LTTE chief and walked into a trap.

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China

Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31.

Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.

The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.

The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to the late Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party of China.

En route to the Gulf of Tonkin, a racial brawl involving more than 100 sailors breaks out aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS ''Kitty Hawk''

Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas

Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain

Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam's opposition

The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits

Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages

Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe

Inejiro Asanuma, Chair of the Japanese Socialist Party, is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The cameras were rolling at the time, so the moment was caught on film.

At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.

"The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York

World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.

World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack.

The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice

An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston

A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.

World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.

World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.

The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage.

Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.

Charles Macintosh, of Scotland, sells the first raincoat.

Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Brazil

First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.

The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina

First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York

America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia

The Salem Witch Trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.

The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.

Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached South Asia

The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.

Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon

King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge