** Bjarni Herjólfsson, who sighted mainland North America ( Labrador, Canada ) around 986,

** Icelandic rulers

** Icelandic Reformation, in the middle of the 16th century, when King Christian III of Denmark imposed Lutheranism

** Magnus Scheving, Icelandic producer

** Björgvin Halldórsson, Icelandic singer

** Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1902 )

** Eldfell on the Icelandic island of Heimaey erupts.

** Guðmundur Pétursson, Icelandic soccer player

** Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic professional football player and politician ( d. 1994 )

** Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Icelandic bishop and scholar ( d. 1675 )

** Icelandic: Fursti / Furstynja – Prins / Prinsessa

** The Orkneyingers Saga ( Icelandic Sagas, and other historical documents relating to the settlements and descents of the Northmen on the British Isles, Volume III ).

** Eggert Ólafsson, Icelandic writer and linguist ( born 1726 ) ( drowned )

** Icelandic cuisine

** Stöð 2 ( 1992-2004 ) ( Icelandic dub-over, under the title " Brakúla greifi ".

** The Icelandic Trilogy ( collects # 42-50, tpb, 200 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-4012-3691-X )

** If S is a set of sentences of first-order logic and B is a consistent subset of S, then B is included in a set that is maximal among consistent subsets of S. The special case where S is the set of all first-order sentences in a given signature is weaker, equivalent to the Boolean prime ideal theorem ; see the section " Weaker forms " below.

** Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras needs the Boolean prime ideal theorem.

** ( n / p ), the Legendre symbol, considered as a function of n where p is a fixed prime number.

** In number theory, Ω ( n ) is the number of prime divisors of n.

** In number theory, ω ( n ) is the number of distinct prime divisors of n.

** Georges Clemenceau becomes prime minister of France.

** Pierre Bérégovoy, former prime minister of France, commits suicide.

** After Demirel becomes the president the acting prime minister of Turkey is Erdal İnönü of SHP for 40 days.

** PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington D. C., after signing a peace accord.

** In Zaire, Etienne Tshiksekedi is appointed prime minister ; he ejects supporters of Mobutu Sese Seko from his cabinet.

** Julius Chan resigns as prime minister of Papua New Guinea, ending the Sandline affair.

** Kevin Rudd, Australian prime minister

** Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister of Israel.

** In Sweden, Olof Palme is elected Labour Party leader, replacing Tage Erlander as prime minister on October 14.

** William Lyon Mackenzie King is re-elected as Canadian prime minister.

** Hideki Tōjō, Japanese prime minister during most of WWII, attempts suicide to avoid facing a war crimes tribunal.

** Yury Yarov, Russian politician and a former deputy prime minister

** Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister.

** Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator ( b. 1882 )

** The New Zealand general election is won by the New Zealand National Party, and its leader, Jim Bolger, becomes prime minister.

** Begum Khaleda Zia is reelected as prime minister of Bangladesh.

** The former prime minister of Bulgaria, Andrei Lukanov, is assassinated.

** Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto's government is dismissed by President Farooq Leghari after widespread allegations of corruption.

** İsmet İnönü of CHP forms the new government of Turkey ( 28th government, coalition partners ; independents, İnönü has served 10 ten times as a prime minister, this is his last government )

** Defense minister

** Louis XIII the Just and his minister Cardinal Richelieu, 1610 – 1643

** the Regency of Anne of Austria and her minister Cardinal Mazarin, 1643 – 1651

** Louis XIV the Sun King and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 1643 – 1715

** Louis XV the Beloved and his minister Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, 1715 – 1774

** Shadow minister, a member of a Shadow Cabinet of the opposition

** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

** U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.

** Zhou Ji, education minister of the People's Republic of China

** Demond Wilson, American actor and minister