Roy Halladay pitches the second no-hitter in MLB Postseason History during Game 1 of the NLDS versus the Cinncinnati Reds

Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

The French oil tanker ''Limburg ''is bombed off Yemen.

Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.

Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.

51 Pegasi is discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.

Fiji becomes a republic.

PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.

In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.

The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.

Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on-board are killed.

New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.

Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.

Egypt launches a coordinated attack against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.

Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).

World War II: The last Polish army is defeated.

Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.

Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.

The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul

Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.

The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.

The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.

The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.

French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October

Seven Years' War: conclusion of the Battle of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British occupation of Manila for the rest of the war.

William Penn brings 13 German immigrant families to the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.

Jacopo Peri's ''Euridice'', the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period

Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.