4th » U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
5th » The Chilean opposition coalition 'Concertación' (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in Chilean national plebiscite, 1988 named his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year.
5th » The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by the Brazilian Constituent Assembly (1988) or Constituent Assembly.
7th » An Inupiat people called Inupiaq hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes Operation Breakthrough known as a multinational effort to free the whales.
12th » Jaffna University Helidrop: Commandos of Indian Peace Keeping Force raided the Jaffna University campus to capture the LTTE chief and walked into a trap.
12th » Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
12th » Birchandra Manu massacre in Tripura, India
19th » The Government of the United Kingdom British government imposes a 1988–94 British broadcasting voice restrictions broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republicanism Irish republican and Ulster loya
27th » Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
Famous Birthdays on October in 1988
1st » Cariba Heine, South African-Australian actress and dancer
3rd » ASAP Rocky, American rapper and producer (ASAP Mob)
4th » Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer
4th » Derrick Rose, American basketball player
4th » Evgeni Krasnopolski, Israeli figure skater
5th » Bobby Edner, American singer, dancer, and actor (Varsity Fanclub)
5th » Benny Howell, English cricketer
5th » Bahar Kızıl, German singer-songwriter (Monrose)