Liberation Front. October 17 October Crisis: Pierre Laporte is found murdered in south Montreal. A cholera epidemic breaks out in Istanbul. Anwar Sadat officially becomes President of Egypt. October 20 The Soviet Union launches the Zond 8 lunar probe. Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister. October 22 – Chilean army commander René Schneider is shot in Santiago; the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25. October 23 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas. October 24 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile by a run-off vote in the National Congress October 25 – The wreck of the Confederate submarine Hunley is found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare. October 28 In Jordan, the government of Ahmad Toukan resigns; the next prime minister is Wasfi al-Tal. A cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia causes Hungary to close its border with Czechoslovakia. Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official land speed record of on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h, stands for nearly 13 years. October 30 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War. November November 1 The Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, kills 146. Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Zygfryd Wolniak and three Pakistanis are killed in an attack on a group of Polish diplomats at the Karachi airport. November 3 Salvador Allende takes office as president of Chile. The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall in modern-day Bangladesh around high tide, causing $86.4 million in damage (1970 USD, $576 million 2020 USD) and becomes the world's deadliest storm killing over 500,000 people. November 5 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers die that week, which is the fifth consecutive week the death toll is below 50; 431 are reported wounded that week, however). November 8 – Egypt, Libya and Sudan announce their intentions to form a federation. November 9 The Soviet Union launches