What Happened In October 1997 - Historical Events 1997 October

Historical Events for October, 1997

2nd » Amsterdam Treaty on European Union is signed.
4th » The 1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in North Carolina named second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Wells Fargo named Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually re
10th » An Austral Líneas Aéreas known as Austral Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 e.g DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
12th » Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
15th » The Cassini-Huygens Mission known as Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
25th » After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
27th » October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world stock market crash named crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15.
29th » Anton Lavey, founder of the Church of Satan, dies in San Francisco of pulmonary edema

1st » Jerome H. Lemelson, American engineer (b. 1923)
3rd » Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian politician, 3rd Governor of Ondo State (b. 1908)
4th » Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created Game Boy (b. 1941)
4th » Otto Ernst Remer, German general (b. 1912)
5th » Brian Pillman, American football player and wrestler (b. 1962)
6th » Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1914)
8th » Bertrand Goldberg, American architect, designed the Marina City or Marina City Building (b. 1913)
12th » John Denver, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Chad Mitchell Trio and The John Denver Band) (b. 1943)
14th » Harold Robbins, American author (b. 1915)
17th » Larry Jennings, American magician (b. 1933)
19th » Glen Buxton, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947)
22nd » Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
23rd » Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
24th » Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
24th » Denise Levertov, English-American poet (b. 1923)
28th » Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1915)
29th » Anton LaVey, American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
29th » Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1947)
30th » Samuel Fuller, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)