What Happened in October 2018

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• Oct 1 "Bluey" the animated Australian children's television series premieres on ABC Kids
• Oct 1 French photographer Jean-Claude Arnault, at the center of a Nobel prize sexual assault scandal, sentenced to two years in prison for rape
• Oct 1 More than 80,000 American died of the flu during 2017-2018 winter, highest in ten years, according to US heath officials

• Oct 1 New trade deal announced between United States, Canada and Mexico (USMCA), replacing NAFTA
• Oct 1 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology awarded to James Allison and Tasuku Honjo for cancer treatment innovations
• Oct 1 The United States, Mexico and Canada agree a new trade deal to replace NAFTA
• Oct 2 Nobel prize in Physics awarded to Arthur Ashkin (optical tweezers), Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland (both for laser beams)

• Oct 3 259 people have died taking selfies since 2011 according to study in "Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care"
• Oct 3 Cervical Cancer could be eliminated in Australia within decades because of government vaccination program, according to report in "The Lancet Public Health"
• Oct 3 First exomoon, moon outside the solar system, discovered 8,000 years away (size of Neptune) by astronomers at Columbia University
• Oct 3 Most expensive whisky ever sold at auction for $1.1 million, the Macallan Valerio Adami 1926, in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Oct 3 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Frances Arnold, Gregory Winter and George Smith for their use of evolution to produce new enzymes and antibodies [1]
• Oct 3 Wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor arrested on corruption charges

• Oct 5 Banksy work "Girl With Balloon" automatically shreds moments after being sold for 1 million pounds in London, renamed "Love is in the Bin"
• Oct 5 Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad for "efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war"
• Oct 5 Record price at auction for a living female artist as Jenny Saville's "Propped" sells for £9.5 million in London
• Oct 5 US unemployment figures hit lowest level since 1969 - 3.7% according to Department of Labor
• Oct 6 Australia records the biggest comeback in Rugby Championship history in beating Argentina 45-34 in Salta; Wallabies trial 31-7 at halftime but score 5 second half tries to none to overwhelm Pumas

• Oct 6 New Zealand claims 6th overall, and 3rd straight Rugby Championship with 32-20 win over South Africa in Pretoria; All Blacks outscore Springboks 4 tries to 3
• Oct 6 Oil tanker collision with a car leaves at least 50 people dead and one hundred with serious burns near Kisantu, Democratic Republic of Congo
• Oct 7 China confirms it has detained Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, who resigns from his position after being reported missing
• Oct 7 Jodie Whittaker debuts in her first full episode as the 13th and first female Doctor Who on BBC television
• Oct 7 Limousine crash kills 20 people, including two pedestrians in Schoharie, New York
• Oct 7 Romanian referendum to ban same sex marriage fails with only 20.4% voting
• Oct 8 Major climate report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the UN says planet will warm 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) by 2040 with dire results

• Oct 8 Nobel prize for Economics awarded to William Nordhaus for climate change and Paul Romer for endogenous growth theory
• Oct 8 Red Sox utility Brock Holt becomes first MLB player to hit for the cycle in a postseason game during Boston's 16-1 Game 3 rout of the NY Yankees in the AL Division Series at Yankee Stadium

• Oct 10 Flash floods kills at least 10 in Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, Majorca, Spain
• Oct 10 Hurricane Michael makes landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as a category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph (250 km/h), going on to kill 27, having killed 15 in Central America
• Oct 11 Russian Soyuz spacecraft makes emergency landing when rocket fails two minutes after liftoff, with American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut aboard
• Oct 11 Swedish dramatic soprano Nina Stemme is awarded the fourth $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize

• Oct 11 World's new longest flight flies from Singapore to Newark Airport, New Jersey takes 17 hours 52 mins
• Oct 12 US air strike in central Somalia kills about 60 al-Shabab militants
• Oct 13 Oldest known human remains from Poland at 115,000 years from revealed to be Neanderthal child from Ciemna Cave eaten by a large bird

• Oct 14 Afghan batsman Hazratullah Zazai becomes only the 6th player in cricket history (3rd in T20) to hit 6-sixes in an over; scores 62 in 17 balls in Kabul Zwanan loss v Balkh Legends in Afghanistan Premier League
• Oct 14 Flash floods in Aude region, France kill at least 10 people
• Oct 15 American retailer Sears files for bankruptcy
• Oct 15 At least 180,000 migrants driven out of Anglo and back into the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Oct 15 Caravan of up to 4,000 Central American migrants that started in Honduras reaches Guatemala, heading for Mexico and the US
• Oct 15 Indian minister and editor MJ Akbar files a defamation case after being accused of sexual harassment by multiple women in #MeToo case

• Oct 16 Chairman of China's Xinjiang’s government defends its detention camps for Uighur Muslims saying they provided “vocational education and training”
• Oct 16 Man Booker Prize is won by Anna Burns' "Milkman", the first winner from Northern Ireland

• Oct 17 Australian state of Queensland decriminalizes abortion
• Oct 17 Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch puppeteer Caroll Spinney leaves "Sesame Street" after 50 years
• Oct 17 Canada legalizes the sale of recreational cannabis, the second country after Uruguay
• Oct 17 India's junior foreign minister MJ Akbar is highest official to resign in #MeToo case after sexual harassment accusations by numerous women
• Oct 17 Student shoots and detonates a bomb killing 20 with 40 injured at Kerch polytechnic college, Crimea

• Oct 19 "Halloween" film reboot starring Jamie Curtis makes a record $77m for a horror film with a female lead, biggest debut any film with female lead over 55 in US
• Oct 20 12,000 year old fossil called "Luzia", oldest known fossil in South America announced found mostly intact after devastating fire at Brazil's National Museum
• Oct 20 All-England Lawn Tennis Club announces tie break to be used when scores reach 12-12 in deciding set at Wimbledon
• Oct 20 Australia's center-right coalition government loses its 1-seat majority by losing the Wentworth by-election

• Oct 21 Sectarian fighting between Muslim and Christian youths kill 55 at Kasuwan Magani, Nigeria
• Oct 21 Train derails in Yilan County, Taiwan, killing 18 and injuring 178

• Oct 22 Cameroon's President Paul Biya wins seventh term in office, extending his 36 years in office, in election marred by intimidation and low turnout

• Oct 23 European Commission rejects Italy's budget, first country to be rejected

• Oct 23 Megyn Kelly is criticized after making comments supporting blackface on her NBC show
• Oct 23 Microplastics found in human stools for the first time by Austrian scientists
• Oct 23 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejects Saudi claim journalist Jamal Khashoggi killed accidentally, says it was premeditated murder

• Oct 23 World's oldest intact shipwreck, ancient Greek vessel 2,400 years old, found at bottom of the Black Sea by archaeologists
• Oct 24 EU directive bans single-use plastics by 2021

• Oct 24 Joel Embiid becomes the first NBA player to reach 30 points and 19 rebounds in the same game since Charles Barkley in 1991

• Oct 24 Largest jackpot in US history at $1.6 billion won by one person in South Carolina

• Oct 24 Scientists confirm East Island in Hawaii, half a mile long, has been wiped out after contact with Hurricane Walaka
• Oct 25 First work of art produced by artificial intelligence "Edmond de Belamy" conceived by Obvious sells for $432,500 at Christie's in New York
• Oct 25 Flash floods near the Red Sea in Jordan kill 17 as a school bus is washed away
• Oct 25 Google says it has fired 48 people for sexual harassment after New York Times reveals Android software creator Andy Rubin got $90M package when let go for sexual harassment
• Oct 25 Sahle-Work Zewde becomes Ethiopia's first female President and Africa's only female head of state after being elected by parliament
• Oct 25 Super Typhoon Yutu strikes the Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan and Tinian with winds of 180mph (290km/h)

• Oct 26 Longest Baseball World Series game by both innings and time; LA Dodgers beat Boston Red Sox, 3-2 in the 18th inning (7 hours, 20 mins) in Game 3 at Dodger Stadium with Max Muncy walk-off homer
• Oct 26 Rhine River in drought with lowest levels since 1920s forces German government to release oil reserves after barge shipments disrupted
• Oct 26 Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc arrested for sending 14 pipe bombs to prominent US Democrats
• Oct 27 Australian 7-year old mare Winx wins unprecedented fourth consecutive Cox Plate at Moonee Valley in Melbourne; her record 29th-straight win and her 22nd Group 1 racing success
• Oct 27 EPL club Leicester City’s billionaire Thai owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash in the carpark outside the club’s King Power Stadium following 1-1 draw against West Ham United
• Oct 27 Gunman shoots and kills 11 people and injures six at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in an anti-Semitic attack
• Oct 27 LA Dodgers beat the Boston Red Sox, 3-2 in Game 3 of baseball's World Series; a record 46 players used by both teams; Boston go on to win 4 games to 1

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• Oct 12 Britain's Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England
• Oct 30 Comedian Bob Sagnet marries TV host and actress Kelly Rizzo

• Oct 1 Charles Aznavour [Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian], French-Armenian singer-songwriter ("She"; "Monsieur Carnavel"; "Tin Drum"), dies at 94
• Oct 2 Geoff Emerick, British sound engineer and record producer (Beatles; Elvis Costello), dies of a heart attack at 72

• Oct 3 Bent Lorentzen, Danish orchestral, electronic, and opera composer, dies at 83
• Oct 3 Leon M. Lederman, American experimental physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988 - for research on quarks and leptons) and author (The God Particle), dies from complications of dementia at 96 [1]
• Oct 4 John Tyrrell, British musicologist (Leoš Janáček; The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians), dies at 76
• Oct 5 Bobby Notkoff, American rock and blues violinist (Crazy Horse; The Rockets), dies at 80
• Oct 6 Montserrat Caballé, Spanish bel canto operatic soprano, and unlikely pop star (with Freddie Mercury - "Barcelona"), dies at 85
• Oct 6 Scott Wilson, American actor (The Walking Dead; The Ninth Configuration), dies of cancer at 76
• Oct 9 Thomas A. Steitz, American Biochemist (2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ribosome discoveries), dies at 78
• Oct 10 Mary Midgley, British-American philosopher (Animals and Why They Matter), dies at 99
• Oct 11 Doug Ellis, British entrepreneur (Chairman of Aston Villa), dies at 94
• Oct 12 (Roelof) "Pik" Botha, South African politician (Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1977-94; Minister of Energy, 1994-96) dies at 86
• Oct 12 Takehisa Kosugi, Japanese violinist and experimental music composer (Group Ongaku; Taj Mahal Travellers), dies at 80
• Oct 13 Annapurna Devi [Roshanara Khan], Indian classical surbahar (bass sitar) player, and music teacher, dies at 91
• Oct 13 Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, English Labour politician, dies at 77
• Oct 14 Al Fann, American actor (Alvin-He's the Mayor), dies at 93

• Oct 15 Shelley Hamlin, American golfer (US Open runner-up 1973), dies of breast cancer at 69
• Oct 16 Berthold Leibinger, German entrepreneur (Trumpf) and philanthropist, dies at 87
• Oct 18 Randolph Hokanson, American concert pianist and teacher (University of Washington, 1949-84), dies at 103
• Oct 20 Wim Kok, Dutch politician, Dutch Prime Minister (1994-2002), dies at 80
• Oct 21 Robert Faurisson, British-born French academic, dies at 89
• Oct 24 Darijan Božič, Slovenian composer and conductor, dies at 86
• Oct 24 Tony Joe White, American blues and swamp rock singer ("Polk Salad Annie"), and songwriter ("Rainy Night In Georgia"), dies of a heart attack at 75
• Oct 24 Wah-Wah Watson [Melvin Ragin], American session guitarist in Motown's Funk Brothers (Temptations - "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone"), dies at 67
• Oct 25 John A Ziegler Jr, American lawyer, and sports league executive (4th NHL president, 1977-92), dies at 84
• Oct 25 Sonny Fortune [Cornelius Fortune], American jazz saxophonist, dies at 79
• Oct 26 György Károly, Hungarian poet and author, dies of cancer at 65
• Oct 27 Murray Khouri, New Zealand classical clarinet player (Australia Ensemble), writer, and broadcaster, dies at 77
• Oct 27 Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman, sports team owner (Leicester City FC), dies in helicopter crash at 60
• Oct 28 Richard James Gill, Australian conductor and music educator, dies from cancer at 76
• Oct 29 Larry Snyder, American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey (US Champion Jockey by wins 1969; George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award 1989), dies from cancer at 76
• Oct 30 Hardy Fox, American member of avant-garde band The Residents, dies at 73
• Oct 30 Jin Young [Louis Cha Leung-yung], Chinese Wuxia novelist, dies at 94
• Oct 30 Sangharakshita [Dennis Lingwood], Buddhist Philosopher, Founder of the Western Buddhist Order, dies at 92