1975 - In Sacramento, Lynette Squeaky Fromme, a follower of the cult leader Charles Manson, attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford. 1977 - West German terrorists kidnapped businessman and president of the Federation of West German Industries Hans Martin Schleyer. His body was found on October 19 in France. 1980 - The 10-mile St. Gotthard Road Tunnel in Switzerland, the longest in the world, was opened at a cost of 690 million Swiss francs. It was begun in late 1969. 1982 - Briton Douglas Bader, who lost his legs in flying accidents and became a World War II fighter pilot, died. 1990 - Prime ministers of North and South Korea met and opened talks in Seoul, the highest-level inter-Korean meeting ever. 1991 - After seven decades of certainty, the Soviet Union destroyed its old power structures and virtually abolished the constitution. President Gorbachev created a transitional regime robbing him of much of his power and delivering it to the republics. 1993 - Seven Nigerian peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in Somalia. 1995 - France conducted an underground nuclear test on Mururoa Atoll, causing worldwide condemnation. Anti-nuclear and independence protesters rioted in Tahiti for two days. 1995 - Denmark extradited U.S. neo-Nazi leader Gary Lauck to Germany. Lauck, head of the U.S.-based National Socialist German Workers' Party Foreign Organization, was suspected of smuggling racist literature into Germany for two decades. 1996 - Jules Wijdenbosch, a leading member of Surinam's former military government, was elected president. 1997 - In Paraguay, during a severe storm in Asuncion, a stadium collapsed and killed 37 people at a political rally. At least 100 people were injured. 1997 - Mother Teresa, 87, died of a heart attack in Calcutta where she established her missionaries of charity order. She opened her first Calcutta slum school in 1949.