🎒🐰💭’On 13 October 1994, Kenzaburō Ōe wins the Nobel Prize in Literature for creating “an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today”.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 12 October 2005, the second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 11 October 1968, Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 10 October 1964, the opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary satellite.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 9 October 1604, Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 8 October 1978, Australia’s Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 7 October 1950, Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 6 October 2007, Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe after 4,833-day expedition, and having travelled 74,842 km (46,505 mi).‘

🎒🐰💭’On 5 October 1962, Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 4 October 1985, the Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States to support the free software movement.‘