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1.10 October events

October 3 – In Lebanon, government of the prime minister Rashid Karam resigns.
October 4 – In Bolivia, army commander general Rogelio Miranda and group of officers rebel and demand resignation of the president Alfredo Ovando Candia – president fires him.
October 5 – Nixon's European tour ends.
October 5 - The Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnap James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all its imprisoned members. The next day the Canadian government announces it won't accept the demand - first stirrings of Quebec's October Crisis.
October 6 – Bolivian president Alredo Ovando Candia resigns – general Rogelio Miranda takes over but resigns soon after.
October 6 – French president Georges Pompidou visits Soviet Union.
October 7 – General Juan Jose Torres becomes the new president of Bolivia.
October 7 – Anwar Sadat accepted as Egyptian president.
October 8 – US foreign office announces that it renews its arms sales to Pakistan.
October 8 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.
October 8 - Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US 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 law 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.
October 11 – 11 French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad.
October 12 – USA begins to sell arms to Jordan.
October 12 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
October 13 - Canada and the People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations.
October 13 – China and Canada renew diplomatic relations .
October 13 – Saeb Salam 's government forms in Lebanon.
October 14 – Chinese nuclear test in Lop Nor.
October 15 – In Egypt, referendum supports Anwar Sadat 90.04%.
October 15 - 35 construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below.
October 16 – Canadian government declares state of emergency and outlaws Quebec Liberation Front .
October 17 – Pierre Laporte is found killed in south of Montreal.
October 17 – Cholera epidemic in Istanbul.
October 17 - Anwar Sadat becomes officially president of Egypt.
October 20 – Soviet Union launches Zond 8 lunar brobe .
October 20 – Algerian ex-minister Krim Belkacem is found strangled in his hotel room in Frankfurt.
October 20 – Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister.
October 21 – US Air Force plane makes an emergency landing near Leninakan , Soviet Union. Soviets release the American officers, including two generals, November 10.
October 22 – Chilean army commander Rene Schneider is shot in Santiago – government declares state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25.
October 26 – US and Soviet space researchers meet in Moscow.
October 28 – In Jordan, government of Ahmed Toukan resigns – next prime minister is Wasfi Tell .
October 28 – Cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia – Hungary closes its border with Czechoslovakia.
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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