** A United Nations tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of over 100 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village.

** Bosnian War ( 1992 – 1995 ) – the war involved several ethnically defined factions within Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats as well as a smaller faction in Western Bosnia led by Fikret Abdić.

** The final fighting in Croatian and Bosnian wars ends in 1995 with the success of Croatian military offensives against Serb forces and the mass exodus of Serbs from Croatia in 1995 ; Serb losses to Croat and Bosniak forces ; and finally the signing of the Dayton Agreement which internally partitioned Bosnia and Herzegovina into a Republika Srpska and a Bosniak-Croat federation.

** Bosnian Serbs break off contact with the Bosnian government and with representatives of Ifor, the NATO localised force, in reaction to the arrest of several Bosnian Serb war criminals.

** The Bosnian government declares the end of the Siege of Sarajevo.

** Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadžić resigns from public office in Republika Srpska after being indicted for war crimes.

** Bosnian War: Serb troops, following a mass rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, besiege the city of Sarajevo.

** Suada Dilberović, Bosnian medical student.

** Sena Jurinac, Bosnian operatic soprano ( died 2011 )

** Bosnian: Кнез / Књегиња or Knez / Kneginja, Краљевић / Краљевна or Kraljević / Kraljevna, Принц / Принцеза or Princ / Princeza

** Resolution 47 / 121: condemned ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian Muslims by the Bosnian Serbs as genocide, ( fourteen year later the International Court of Justice ruled in the Bosnian Genocide Case of 2007, that ethnic cleansing was not enough in itself to be genocide, but that there must also be intent to kill a substantial part of the targeted group by the perpetrators ).

** Bosnian cuisine

** Nedeljko Bajić Baja, Bosnian Serb singer

** Bosnian, ( Bosnian Cyrillic was used in the Bosnian language until the late 18th century.

** 1992 – 1995 Bosnian War

** War between ethnic-Albanian separatists and Yugoslav military and Serb paramilitary forces in Kosovo begin in 1996 and escalates in 1998 with increasing reports of atrocities taking place.

** In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) led by the United States launched air attacks against Yugoslavia ( then composed of only Serbia and Montenegro ) to pressure the Yugoslav government to end its military operations against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo due to accusations of war crimes being committed by Yugoslav military forces working alongside nationalist Serb paramilitary groups.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** Croatian forces launch Operation Flash against rebel Serb forces in western Slavonia.

** The Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( without the presence of Serb political delegates ) proclaims independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

** Serb troops take Vukovar after an 87-day siege, and commit the worst massacre in Croatian history.

** Milan Rešetar, Serb linguist and historian ( d. 1942 )

** A curfew is imposed in Kosovo, where protests continue over the alleged intimidation of the Serb minority.

** Battle of Rovine: With the help of the Hungarians, Wallachia resists an invasion by the Ottomans and their Serb and Bulgarian vassals.

** Serb ( Illyrian ) section

** Zerahemnah: the war leader of the Zoramites political ( see Alma 43 )

** The General Secretary, which is the highest-ranking official within the Party and usually the Chinese de facto paramount leader.

** Head teacher, the most senior teacher and leader of a school

** Bashar al-Assad is confirmed as Syria's leader in a national referendum.

** Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to make an official visit to Israel, when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

** Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.

** Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader ( b. 1916 )

** Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah a Pakistani religious leader, of Allo Mahar Shrif.

** George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader ( d. 1967 )

** Vasil Biľak, former Slovak Communist leader

** Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze ( d. 1977 )

** Green Clay Smith, American temperance movement leader ( d. 1895 )

** Large protests erupt against Slobodan Milošević's regime in Belgrade ; opposition leader Vuk Drašković and his wife Danica are arrested.

** Burundian presidential election, 1993: The first multiparty elections in Burundi since the country's independence lead to the election of Melchior Ndadaye, leader of the Front for Democracy in Burundi.

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

** India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.

** Philippe Pétain, French World War I marshal, leader of Vichy France ( b. 1856 )

** Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.

** Feliksas Baltušis-Žemaitis, Lithuanian military leader ( b. 1897 )

** Shoghi Effendi, Bahá ' í leader ( b. 1897 )

** Jim Jones, American cult leader ( d. 1978 )

** Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader ( d. 2011 )

** Reverend Ian Paisley, hardline Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for 3 months for illegal assembly.

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

** Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse.