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October 5 - The Public Broadcasting Service begins broadcasting.

October 6 - Bolivian President Alfredo Ovando CandÃ*a resigns; General Rogelio Miranda takes over but resigns soon after.

October 6 - French President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union.

October 7 - General Juan José Torres becomes the new President of Bolivia.

October 8 - The U.S. Foreign Office announces that renewal of arms sales to Pakistan.

October 8 - Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

# October 8 - Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects U.S. President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."

# October 9 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.

October 10 - Fiji becomes independent.

October 10 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.