On this day — October 5

two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.

who had died in a cult mass murder-suicide.

Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

including four children, are killed in a mass shooting at Ras Burqa in the Sinai Peninsula by an Egyptian soldier.

James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.