2nd » The Carandiru massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil.
4th » The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
4th » El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
12th » 1992 Cairo earthquake e.g 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
13th » An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered CCCP-82002, crashes near Kiev, Ukraine killing 8.
17th » Having gone to the wrong house for a Halloween party, Japanese exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori is shot and killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
24th » The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
26th » The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
26th » The London Ambulance Service is thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new Computer-assisted dispatch called CAD, or Computer Aided Dispatch, system which failed.
7th » Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (b. 1930)
7th » Babu Karam Singh Bal, Indian politician (b.1927)
7th » Tevfik Esenç, Turkish last speaker of Ubykh language (b. 1904)
8th » Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic) or Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Peace Prize known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
13th » Dantrell Davis, American murder victim (b. 1985)
13th » James Marshall (author) called James Marshall, American author and illustrator (b. 1942)
17th » Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (b. 1912)