Historical Events
Music History
Oct 1 Ringo Starr postpones two dates of his All-Starr Band tour due to illness
- Oct 1 Stampede at Indonesian soccer stadium kills 131 people in Malang city, East Java, started after police fire teargas at rioters in the crowd [1]
Event of Interest
Oct 1 Ukrainian forces enter the strategic town of Lyman in Donetsk province defeating Russian forces and forcing them to retreat to Kremina, barely a day after Vladimir Putin announced Russia's illegal annexation of Donetsk
Sports History
Oct 3 Kawhi Leonard returns from injury in a preseason win over the Portland Trail Blazers
- Oct 3 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Svante Pääbo for "discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution" (including sequencing genome of the Neanderthal) [1]
- Oct 3 Ringo Starr postpones five dates of his All-Starr Band tour in Canada due to his testing positive for COVID-19
- Oct 4 Noble Prize for Physics won by Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states [1]
Baseball Record
Oct 4 NY Yankees slugger Aaron Judge breaks Roger Maris's AL single season HR record when he slams his 62nd homer in a 3-2 loss against the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas
Contract of Interest
Oct 5 Duhan van der Merwe returns to Edinburgh on a long-term deal after Worcester Warriors contract termination
- Oct 5 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless (his 2nd) for their work on Click Chemistry
- Oct 5 Worcester Warriors players have their contracts terminated as the club enters administration
- Oct 6 Former police officer with a history of drug use attacks day care center, killing at least 37, including 23 children with gun and knife, in Uthai Sawan, Thailand
- Oct 6 French writer Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature [1]
- Oct 7 Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, Russian human rights organisation Memorial and Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties [1]
- Oct 8 Landslide caused by unusually heavy rain kills at least 50 in Las Tejerias, Venezuela [1]
- Oct 8 The Kerch bridge built by Russia to link Crimea to Russia and symbol of Russia's illegal occupation of Ukraine is partly blown up, allowing only light traffic to cross [1]
- Oct 9 American runner Emily Sisson runs US record 2:18:29 in Chicago Marathon, finishing 2nd by 4:11 to repeat winner Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya
- Oct 9 Brightest cosmic explosion ever seen - a gamma ray burst 2.4 billion light years away, thought to be a massive star collapsing to form a black hole in a 1 in 10,000 year event [1]
- Oct 9 Brock Purdy makes his regular-season debut in the NFL
Sports History
Oct 9 Dutch Red Bull driver Max Verstappen secures his second consecutive World F1 Drivers C'ship after finishing in front of Sergio Pérez and Charles Leclerc in the Japanese GP at Suzuka
Nobel Prize for Economics
Oct 10 Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig for discoveries which improved how society deals with financial crises [1]
- Oct 11 Ringo Starr resumes his All-Starr Band tour with a show in Seattle, Washington after his testing positive for COVID-19
Film & TV History
Oct 12 American conspiracy theorist, radio host, and provocateur Alex Jones ordered by a Connecticut defamation trial jury to pay $965 million to families of those killed in 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School for falsely and repeatedly claiming on his broadcasts that none of the 20 children and six adults killed had actually died and that their relatives were crisis actors [1]
- Oct 12 Lebanon reports its first death from Cholera since 1993, spreading from neighbouring Syria [1]
- Oct 12 UN General Assembly passes a resolution condemning Russia's attempted annexation of Ukrainian territory [1]
- Oct 13 Jury recommends sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for shooter who pled guilty to killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018
- Oct 13 Ringo Starr cancels five remaining scheduled All-Starr Band tour concert dates in California and Mexico, after getting rebound COVID-19 infection
- Oct 14 Coal mine explosion in Amasra, northern Turkey, kills 41 and injures 11 [1]
- Oct 14 Psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Oct 16 More than 600 people have died in Nigeria's worst floods in a decade, displacing more than 1.3 million people according to a government minister [1]
Ballon d'Or
Oct 17 FIFA Ballon d'Or: Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema wins his first award; Barcelona midfielder Alexia Putellas claims women's award for a second-straight season
- Oct 17 Shehan Karunatilka is the second Sri Lankan author to win the Booker Prize with his novel "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" [1]
- Oct 18 American cellist Yo-Yo Ma is awarded the fifth $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
- Oct 18 Evidence found of lost star catalog by 2nd century BC Greek astronomer Hipparchus (earliest known attempt to record celestial objects' coordinates with naked eye) found in palimpsest manuscript published by scholars [1]
Event of Interest
Oct 18 The Girl Scouts of the USA announces receipt of donations totaling $84.5 million from American philanthropist MacKenzie Scott
- Oct 19 Massachusetts names Podokesaurus holyokensis ("swift-footed lizard of Holyoke") as official state dinosaur [1]
- Oct 19 Philadelphia Phillies right-hander Aaron Nola faces his brother San Diego Padres catcher Austin Nola in first MLB playoff sibling pitcher-batter battle; Austin goes 1-2, with rally starting RBI in 8-5 win at Petco Park, San Diego
- Oct 22 Italy forms new coalition government, choosing far-right Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia - FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni as Prime Minister, the 1st female to hold the office [1]
- Oct 23 Brock Purdy plays against the Kansas City Chiefs, throwing for 66 yards and an interception
- Oct 23 MLB American League Championship Series: Houston Astros defeat NY Yankees 6-5 in NYC, sweeping series 4-0 to advance to World Series for 4th time in 6 years
- Oct 23 MLB National League Championship Series: Philadelphia Phillies defeat San Diego Padres 4-3 at home, winning series 4-1 to advance to World Series
Event of Interest
Oct 23 Xi Jinping secures record third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party with a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, at the 20th National Party Congress in Beijing [1]
- Oct 24 China continues its Covid-zero policy with 28 cities and 207 million people affected by some form of lockdown, including Wuhan [1]
- Oct 24 Five-month-old bar-tailed godwit becomes a world record holder by flying 8,425 miles non-stop from Alaska to Australia in 11 days; bird departed Yukon Kuskokwim Delta in Alaska, US, on October 13 and touched down in Ansons Bay in Tasmania, Australia
- Oct 24 UK's ruling Conservative party appoints Rishi Sunak as their next leader and Prime Minister, replacing Liz Truss after six weeks; Sunak is the first PM of color in the country's history [1]
- Oct 24 US Mint issues first US currency featuring an Asian-American - silent film actress Anna May Wong; coin is part of American Women Quarters Program celebrates female trailblazers [1] [2]
- Oct 25 German sportswear manufacturer Adidas cuts ties with American rapper and fashion designer Kenye West over anti-Semitic remarks he made in interviews and on his social media [1]
- Oct 25 New Zealand Parliament membership becomes majority female for 1st time [1]
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Oct 26 "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" has its world premiere in Hollywood starring Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira
- Oct 26 European Union's tallest building completed - the Varso Tower, a supertall skyscraper in Warsaw, Poland, at 310 metres high [1]
- Oct 26 Thousands of protesters in Saqez, Iran defy security forces to mark 40-day Arba'een (period of mourning) for Mahsa Amini, a 22-year old who died in police custody for not wearing a hijab properly [1]
Event of Interest
Oct 28 Hammer-wielding intruder attacks Paul Pelosi, 82-year old husband of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, at their California home
- Oct 28 Swedish engineers in Linköping produce the world's first female crash dummy (previous female dummies just a scaled down version of the male figure) [1]
- Oct 28 Tropical storm Nalgae stikes makes landfall in Virac, the Philippines, will go on to kill 112 people in the country [1]
- Oct 29 Crowd surge at Halloween festivities in Seoul, South Korea, leaves 155 people dead [1]
- Oct 29 Misuzulu ka Zwelithini crowned Zulu King in Duban, South Africa in the first coronation since 1994 democratic elections [1]
- Oct 29 Twin car bombs by a jihadist group in Mogadishu, Somalia, kill 120 people
- Oct 30 Dutch Red Bull driver Max Verstappen wins the Mexican F1 Grand Prix in Mexico City for his record breaking 14th GP win of the season; surpasses Michael Schumacher and fellow German Sebastian Vettel (13)
- Oct 30 Indonesian medical tragedy as 157 children have now died from kidney injuries this year due to contaminated medicines according to authorities [1]
Election of Interest
Oct 30 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected President of Brazil for a third term after a tight run-off race against sitting President Jair Bolsonaro [1]
- Oct 30 Pedestrian suspension bridge in India collapses into the River Macchu in Morbi town, Gujarat, killing 135 people [1]
Coup d'état
Oct 30 Several thousand black-clad fascist sympathizers march to slain Italian dictator BenIto Mussolini's’s crypt in Predappio, Italy, commemorating 100th anniversary of his bloodless coup
Music History
Oct 31 Taylor Swift becomes the first artist in history to claim all top 10 slots on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, all tracks from her album "Midnights" [1]
Famous Divorces
Gisele Bündchen & Tom Brady
Oct 28 Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen (42) and American NFL quarterback Tom Brady (45) announce they have divorced after 13 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
- Oct 1 Kanji "Antonio" Inoki, Japanese pro wrestler (12 x world champion; NJPW/JWA), promoter, and politician (House of Councillors, 1989-95 & 2013-19), dies at 79 [1]
- Oct 1 Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian francophone writer and educator (Toronto Linden School), dies at 97
- Oct 2 Éder Jofre, Brazilian boxer (WBA, WBC & The Ring Bantamweight, WBC Featherweight titles; International Boxing HOF), dies from chronic traumatic encephalopathy at 86
- Oct 2 Mary McCaslin, American contemporary folk singer-songwriter, guitarist, and banjo player ("Prairie In The Sky"), dies from complications of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) at 75
- Oct 2 Sacheen Littlefeather [Marie Louise Cruz]. American indigenous rights activist, who declined Academy Award for Best Actor on behalf of Marlon Brando, dies of breast cancer at 75 [1]
- Oct 2 Shirley Englehorn, American golfer (Women's PGA C'ship 1970), dies at 81
- Oct 3 Charles Fuller, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (A Soldier's Play; Zooman and the Sign; The Brownsville Raid), and screenwriter (A Soldier's Story; A Gathering of Old Men), dies at 83 [1]
- Oct 3 Joe Bussard, American musicologist, preservationist, and record label owner (Fonotone), dies of pancreatic cancer at 86
- Oct 3 Per Bredesen, Norwegian soccer forward (18 caps; Ørn Horten FK, Lazio, Udinese, AC Milan, Bari, Messina), dies at 91
- Oct 4 Dave Dryden, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (designer first mask-cage combination goalie mask; Chicago Black Hawks, Buffalo Sabres, Edmonton Oilers), dies at 81
- Oct 4 Jesús del Muro, Mexican soccer defender (40 caps; Atlas FC, CF Cruz Azul) and manager (Toluca FC, CF Pachuca, Jalisco AC), dies at 84
- Oct 4 Jürgen Sundermann, German soccer manager (Servette, VfB Stuttgart, Schalke 04, Strasbourg, Hertha BSC) and midfielder (1 cap West Germany; FC Basel, Servette), dies at 82
Loretta Lynn (1932-2022)
Oct 4 American country singer-songwriter ("Coal Miner's Daughter"; "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man"), dies at 90 [1]
- Oct 4 Lucienne Schmidt-Couttet, French alpine skier (World C'ship gold Giant Slalom 1954), dies at 95
- Oct 5 Wolfgang Kohlhaase, German actor, director and writer (Solo Sunday), dies at 91
- Oct 6 (Myrna Joy) "Jody" Miller, American Grammy Award-winning pop and country music singer ("He Walks Like A Man": "Queen of the House"), dies of complications from Parkinson's disease at 80
- Oct 6 Gian Piero Ventrone, Italian athletic trainer (Juventus FC, Italy 2004-06, SSC Bari, Atalanta BC, Tottenham Hotspur FC), dies from a brain haemorrhage at 62
- Oct 6 Judy Tenuta, American stand-up comedienne and accordion player, dies of ovarian cancer at 72
- Oct 6 Phil Read, English motorcycle racer (World C'ship 125cc 1968, 250cc 1964-65, 68, 71 & 500 cc 1973-74; Formula TT 1977), dies at 83
- Oct 7 Art Laboe [Egnoian], American radio disc jockey ("Oldies but Goodies"), songwriter, record producer, and radio station owner, dies at 97 [1]
- Oct 7 Bill Nieder, American athlete (Olympic gold shot put 1960, silver 1956), dies at 89
- Oct 7 Toshi Ichiyanagi, Japanese avant-garde composer, pianist, and first husband of Yoko Ono, dies at 89
- Oct 8 Gerben Karstens, Dutch road cyclist (Olympic gold 100km team trial 1964; 6 x stages Tour de France, 14 x stages Vuelta a España, 1 x stage Giro d'Italia), dies of stroke complications at 80
- Oct 9 Bruce Pairaudeau, West Indian cricketer (WI opening bat in 13 Tests, 115 on debut), dies at 91
- Oct 9 Margie Masters, Australian golfer (Western Open runner-up 1966), dies at 87
- Oct 9 Susan Tolsky, American actress (Madame's Place; Here Come The Brides), dies at 79
- Oct 9 Yuriy Dehteryov, Ukrainian soccer goalkeeper (17 caps USSR; Shakhtar Donetsk 321 games), dies at 74
- Oct 10 Anita Kerr [née Grilli], American pop and country singer, composer, and producer (The Anita Kerr Singers), dies at 94 [1] [2]
- Oct 10 Sergio Brighenti, Italian soccer forward (9 caps; Modena, Internazionale, Triestina, Padova, Sampdoria), dies at 90
Angela Lansbury (1925-2022)
Oct 11 Irish-British-American Golden Globe and multiple Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress (Gaslight; The Manchurian Candidate; Mame; Murder, SheWrote; Beauty and the Beast), dies at 96 [1] [2]
- Oct 11 Joe Crozier, Canadian ice hockey head coach (Buffalo Sabres 1971-74, Toronto Maple Leafs 1980-81), dies at 93
- Oct 12 Luke Jackson, American basketball center/forward (Olympic gold 1964; NBA C'ship 1967 Philadelphia 76ers; NBA All-Star 1965), dies from heart failure at 80
- Oct 13 Bruce Sutter, American Baseball HOF relief pitcher (NL Cy Young Award 1979; 6 x MLB All-Star; 5 x NL saves leader; Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals; Atlanta Braves), dies of cancer at 69
- Oct 13 James "Jim" McDivitt, American Air Force Brigadier General and NASA astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9), dies at 93
- Oct 13 Lennart Söderberg, Swedish soccer manager (Gefle IF, Västerås SK, IFK Eskilstuna) and defender (2 caps; AIK), dies at 81
- Oct 13 Pim van de Meent, Dutch soccer manager (PEC Zwolle, NEC, VBV De Graafschap, FC Den Haag), dies at 84
- Oct 13 Stavros Sarafis, Greek soccer attacking midfielder (32 caps; PAOK 358 games, 136 goals), dies at 72
Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
Oct 14 Scottish comedian and BAFTA Award-winning actor (Cracker; Harry Potter films; Nuns on the Run), dies at 72
- Oct 14 Stanislav Kropilák, Slovak basketball power forward-center (4 × FIBA European Selection; 5 × Czech Player of the Year; BK Inter Bratislava), dies at 67
- Oct 15 Joyce Sims, American R&B singer-songwriter ("All and All"; "Come into My Life"), dies at 63
- Oct 15 Mikaben [Michael Benjamin], Haitian zouk and dancehall singer-songwriter, dies onstage in Paris of a heart attack at 41
- Oct 16 Dagmar Rom, Austrian alpine ski racer (World C'ship gold slalom & giant slalom 1950; Olympic silver giant slalom 1952), dies at 94
- Oct 17 Carmen Callil, Australian publisher working in the UK (Virago Press), dies at 84
- Oct 18 Ole Ellefsæter, Norwegian cross-country skier (Olympic gold 50km & 4×10km relay 1968; World C'ship gold 4×10km relay 1966), dies from cardiac arrest at 83
- Oct 18 Robert Gordon, American rockabilly revival singer-songwriter ("Red Hot"), and actor (The Loveless), dies of leukemia at 75
- Oct 19 Charley Trippi, American College-Pro Football HOF halfback (Uni of Georgia; NFL C'ship 1947; First-team All-Pro 1948; Pro Bowl 1952, 53; Chicago Cardinals), dies at 100
- Oct 19 Dave Herman, American football offensive guard (Super Bowl 1969; AFL All-Star 1968, 69; All-AFL 1967, 68, 69; New York Jets), dies of chronic traumatic encephalopathy at 81
- Oct 19 Joanna Simon, American mezzo-soprano (1962-86), and Emmy Award-winning arts journalist (PBS, 1986-92), dies of thyroid cancer at 85 [1]
- Oct 19 Omar Borrás, Uruguayan soccer manager (Uruguay 1977, 82-87; Saudi Arabia), dies from kidney problems at 93
- Oct 20 Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet (Quand nous serons heureux - When we are happy), dies at 89
- Oct 20 Jimmy Millar, Scottish soccer centre forward (2 caps; Rangers 197 games) and manager (Raith Rovers), dies from dementia at 87
- Oct 20 Lucy Simon, American folk singer-songwriter (Simon Sisters), Grammy Award-winning record producer (In Harmony) and theater composer (The Secret Garden; Doctor Zhivago), dies of breast cancer at 82 [1]
- Oct 21 Harry White, Australian jockey (Melbourne Cup: Think Big 1974, 75; Arwon 1978; Hyperno 1979; Australian Racing HOF), dies from multiple sclerosis at 78
- Oct 21 Jim Bolla Jr., American college basketball coach (UNLV Women 1982-96; Uni of Hawaii 2004-09), dies of cancer at 70
Dietrich Mateschitz (1944-2022)
Oct 22 Austrian businessman (founder, owner Red Bull Racing; FC Red Bull Salzburg, RB Leipzig; co-creator Red Bull energy drink), dies of pancreatic cancer at 78
- Oct 23 Walt Corey, American football linebacker (AFL C'ship 1962, 66; AFL All-Star 1963; Dallas Texans/KC Chiefs) and coach (KC Chiefs, Buffalo Bills), dies at 84
- Oct 24 Ashton Carter, American military civilian official (Secretary of Defense, 2015-17), and academic administrator, dies of a heart attack at 68
- Oct 24 Leslie Jordan, American Emmy Award-winning actor (Will & Grace - "Beverly"), and writer, dies in a car crash at 67
- Oct 24 Tomasz Wójtowicz, Polish volleyball player (Olympic gold 1976; World C'ship gold 1974; Legia Warsaw, Santal Parma) and broadcaster, dies at 69
- Oct 25 Jules Bass, American director, producer, lyricist (Rankin/Bass Productions -The Year Without A Santa Claus; Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer; Frosty The Snowman), and cookbook author, dies at 87
- Oct 27 Bahaa Taher, Egyptian writer (1st winner International award for Arabic Fiction 2008), dies at 87
- Oct 27 Gerald Stern, American poet, (The One Thing in Life), essayist (Some Secrets), and educator, dies at 97 [1]
- Oct 27 Joyce Molyneux, British chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author, dies at 91
- Oct 28 D. H. Peligro [Darren Henley], American punk rock drummer (Dead Kennedys, Red Hot Chili Peppers,1988), dies from head injury after a fall at 63
Jerry Lee Lewis (1935-2022)
Oct 28 American rock and country music singer-songwriter and pianist ("Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"; "Great Balls Of Fire"), dies at 87 [1] [2]
- Oct 28 Vince Dooley, American College Football HOF coach (NCAA C'ship, AFCA Coach of the Year, Eddie Robinson COY; AD University of Georgia 1979-2004), dies at 90
- Oct 30 Anthony Ortega, American session and jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and flautist (A Man and His Horns), dies at 94
- Oct 31 Alan "Froggy" Thomson, Australian cricket fast bowler (4 Tests, 12 wickets; Victoria CA), dies at 76
- Oct 31 John McVay, American football coach (NY Giants 1976-78) and executive (AD Uni of Dayton 1972, 73; GM SF 49ers 1998-99), dies at 91
Assassination
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Hanging
Killed in Action
Plane Crash
Poisoning