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3 Oct	Following the exodus of 6390 East German citizens from Western embassies in Prague on 1 October under arrangements made by the East German Government, some 20000 East German emigrants congregate in the Prague and Warsaw embassies of the Federal Republic of Germany.
6-7 Oct	Mikhail Gorbachev, attending 40th Anniversary Parade in East Berlin, urges reforms in the GDR.
16 Oct	CSCE Meeting on Environmental Protection in Sofia.
18 Oct	Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the Socialist (Communist) Unity Party since 1971, is replaced by Egon Krenz as leader of the German Democratic Republic as East German citizens demonstrate for political reform and large numbers of refugees continue to leave the German Democratic Republic through Prague and Budapest.
23 Oct	The new constitution adopted by the Hungarian Parliament on 18 October brings into being the Republic of Hungary as a free, democratic, independent legal state and opens the way for multiparty elections in 1990.