This week in Pacific history

October 4th - October 10th

October 4th - October 10th

Yoshinori Sakai, the Olympic flame torchbearer, runs to light the Olympic cauldron

Yoshinori Sakai, the Olympic flame torchbearer, running to light the Olympic cauldron to begin the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.

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October 5th, 1943World War II: Japanese forces execute Ninety-eight American POWs on Wake Island.
October 6th, 1987 – The Republic of Fiji is established.
October 9th, 1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
October 9th, 1983 – In present-day Yangon, Myanmar, an unsuccessful assassination attempt is made on South Korean President Chun Doo-hwanwhich.
October 10th, 1964 – The Tokyo Summer Olympics begin, the first to be telecast internationally live by satellites.