Sports History
Oct 1 Muhammad Ali visits Istanbul, Turkey, praying alongside Deputy Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan at Sultan Ahmet mosque [1]
Sports History
Oct 3 Future Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder Hank Aaron singles in his last MLB at-bat & drives in his 2,297th run as Milwaukee Brewers lose, 5-2 v Detroit Tigers
- Oct 5 MLB expansion draft: Seattle Mariners & Toronto Blue Jays pick 30 unprotected AL players; Ruppert Jones OF (Seattle) & Bob Bailor OF (Toronto) are first picks
- Oct 6 John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent
- Oct 9 Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on cricket debut New Zealand v Pakistan Javed 1st wkt
- Oct 9 Test Cricket debut of Javed Miandad (Pakistan), scores 163 on 1st day
- Oct 9 Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1
- Oct 10 Giant's Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey opens with the NY Giants going down 24–14 to the Dallas Cowboys in from of 76,042 fans
- Oct 10 Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33
- Oct 12 MLB National League Championship: Cincinnati Reds beat Philadelphia Phillies, 3 games to 0
- Oct 14 Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives NY Yanks pennant #30
- Oct 14 MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Kansas City Royals, 3 games to 2
- Oct 16 Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 min 54 sec
- Oct 17 Coldest World Series game; Reds beat NY Yankees, 4-3 in Game 2 at Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati; 39 degrees F (until 1997)
- Oct 20 NY Nets Julius "Dr J" Erving sold to Philadelphia 76ers
World Series
Oct 21 Baseball World Series: defending champions Cincinnati Reds sweep NY Yankees; beat Bombers, 7-2 in Game 4 at Yankee Stadium; MVP: Reds catcher Johnny Bench
Sports History
Oct 21 NY Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed
Sports History
Oct 22 Rick Barry (San Francisco), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
F1 World Champion
Oct 24 English McLaren driver James Hunt finishes 4th in the season ending Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji Speedway to win his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 1 point from Niki Lauda
New York City Marathon
Oct 24 New York City Marathon: American Bill Rodgers wins his first title in 2:10:10; Miki Gorman takes out women's race in 2:39:11
- Oct 24 Sadiq & Mushtaq Mohammad score hundreds in same Test Cricket innings v NZ
Sports History
Oct 28 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (NY Yankees)
- Oct 31 Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad scores 206 v NZ, aged 19 yrs 141 days (29 fours 1 six)
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