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October 17 - A cholera epidemic breaks out in Istanbul.

October 17 - Anwar Sadat officially becomes President of Egypt.

# October 20 - The Soviet Union launches the Zond 8 lunar probe.

October 20 - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister.

# October 21 - A U.S. Air Force plane makes an emergency landing near Leninakan, Soviet Union. The Soviets release the American officers, including 2 generals, November 10.

October 22 - Chilean army commander Rene Schneider is shot in Santiago; the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25.

October 24 - Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.

October 25 - The wreck of Confederate submarine Hunley is found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence,[1] then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare.

October 26 - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.

October 28 - In Jordan, the government of Ahmed Toukan resigns; the next prime minister is Wasfi Al-Tal.