October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October retained its name after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans.
October symbols: The birthstones of Octoberare the tourmaline and opal. Its birth flower is the calendula. The zodiac signs for the month of October are Libra (until October 22) or Scorpio (October 23 onwards). October Star Stones: Libra (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22). Planetary Stone: Sapphire; Lucky Charms: Opal, Sardonyx, Chrysolite; birthstone: pink Tourmaline, Opal. Scorpio (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21). Planetary Stone: Garnet, Ruby; Lucky Charms: Aquamarine, Beryl. October Mystical birthstone is Jasper. October Ayurvedic Birthstone is Opal.
Historical Events for October, 1986
Day of Week 3rd » TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
Day of Week 10th » An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
Day of Week 11th » Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and USSR known as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev Reykjavík Summit or meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
Day of Week 16th » Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
Day of Week 19th » Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane 1986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 crash known as crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
19th » The Boston Red Sox win Game 2 of the 1986 World Series versus the New York Mets 9-3 at Shea Stadium.
Day of Week 21st » In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have Iran–Contra Affair called abducted United States named American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
Day of Week 24th » Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hi
Day of Week 27th » The United Kingdom or British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang (financial markets) called Big Bang.
Day of Week 29th » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
19th » Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist, co-founded 'Newswatch (Nigeria) called Newswatch Magazine' (b. 1947)
19th » Samora Machel, Mozambican commander and politician, 1st President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
21st » Lionel Murphy, Australian jurist and politician, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (b. 1922)
22nd » Jane Dornacker, American actress and singer (b. 1947)
22nd » Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
23rd » Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
24th » Claude B. Duval, People from Houma, Louisiana (b. 1914)
25th » Forrest Tucker, American actor and singer (b. 1919)