* '''October 16''' – Rahima Banu, a 2-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.* '''October 22''' - The Soviet unmanned space mission probe "Venera 9 " lands on [[Venus]]. * An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other while in [[Earth]] orbit. * World population is recorded as more than 4,068,000,000.