of the House Bank by the end of the year after revelations that House members have written numerous bad checks. October 4 – Carl Bildt succeeds Ingvar Carlsson as Prime Minister of Sweden. October 6 – President Gorbachev condemns antisemitism in the Soviet Union in a statement read on the 50th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacres, which saw the death of 35,000 Jews in Ukraine during WWII. October 7 – Dissolution of Yugoslavia: The Yugoslav Air Force bombs the office of Croatian President Franjo Tuđman, causing the Croatian Parliament to cut all remaining ties with Yugoslavia the next day. October 11 In the Russian SFSR, the KGB is replaced by the SVR, with the KGB officially ending operations on November 6. Iraq disarmament crisis: The UN Security Council passes Resolution 715, demanding that Iraq "accept unconditionally the inspectors and all other personnel designated by the Special Commission." Iraq rejects the resolution, calling it "unlawful". October 12 – Askar Akayev is confirmed as the first president of Kyrgyzstan in an uncontested poll. October 13 – In the Bulgarian parliamentary election, the Union of Democratic Forces defeats the Bulgarian Socialist Party, leaving no remaining Communist governments in Eastern Europe. October 15 Clarence Thomas is confirmed as the new U.S. Supreme Court Justice following Thurgood Marshall's retirement. The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and the Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland. October 18 – The Soviet Union restores its diplomatic relations with Israel, which had been suspended since the 1967 Six-Day War. October 20 The Harare Declaration is signed in Harare, Zimbabwe, laying down the Commonwealth of Nations membership criteria. A large suburban firestorm centered in Oakland Hills, California, kills 25 people and injures 150 others. A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes Uttarkashi, India, killing at least 768 people and destroying thousands of homes. October 21 – Lebanon Hostage Crisis: Jesse Turner, a mathematics professor who has been held hostage for more than four years, is released. October 23 – In Paris, the Vietnam-backed government of the state of Cambodia signs an agreement with the Khmer Rouge to end the civil war and bring the Khmer Rouge into power despite its role in the Cambodian genocide. The deal ends the Cambodian–Vietnamese War and results in the creation of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia. October 27 – The first