Historical Events in October 2016

Oct 2 Veteran broadcaster Vin Scully calls his final LA Dodgers game (7-1 loss in SF) after a record 67 MLB seasons

Oct 2 Kim Kardashian is robbed at gunpoint of $10 million worth of jewelry in her hotel in Paris

Oct 3 Yoshinori Ohsumi from Japan wins Nobel Prize for Medicine for research into autophagy
Oct 7 Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize for attempts to end conflict with FARC

Oct 7 Washington Post releases videotape of Donald Trump boasting of groping and kissing women without consent

Oct 8 140 people are killed in an air strike during a wake in Sanaa, Yemen
Oct 8 New Zealand routs South Africa, 57-14 in Durban to win their 4th Rugby Championship; undefeated All Blacks score 9 tries to 1, 2 each to Israel Dagg, TJ Perenara and Beauden Barrett

Oct 9 Second US Presidential debate: Hostile confrontation between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at Washington University, St. Louis

Oct 10 Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to UK-born Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland for work on contract theory
Oct 10 Actress Shailene Woodley arrested for trespassing while protesting against proposed Dakota Access Pipeline
Oct 11 South Korean firm Samsung announces it will permanently stop production of Note 7 phones after complaints devices caught fire
Oct 12 Auston Matthews becomes 1st player to score 4 goals in his NHL debut for the Toronto Maple Leafs at Ottawa
Oct 12 James Charles (17) becomes the 1st male face of make-up label CoverGirl

Oct 13 American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

Oct 16 Ed Whitlock at 85 becomes oldest person to complete a marathon under 4 hours, at Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 3 hours 56 minutes
Oct 17 Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-11 launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northern China
Oct 18 US White Houses says it is "confident" Russia behind recent email hacking and attemps to influence US election
Oct 19 Third US Presidential debate: Donald Trump notably refuses to say if he will accept the result of election during debate with Hillary Clinton at Nevada University, Las Vegas
Oct 22 AT&T buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion
Oct 24 Suicide bomb kills 61 and injures 117 at a police training academy in Quetta, Pakistan, ISIS claims responsibility
Oct 25 Paul Beatty becomes the 1st American to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel "The Sellout"
Oct 25 4 killed on a theme park ride at Dreamworld, in Queensland, Australia
Oct 27 6.6-magnitude quake hits central Italy - strongest earthquake in Italy for 36 years
Oct 28 Disney and Alessia Cara release the sing "How Far I'll Go" for the film "Moana"
Oct 30 Canada and the EU sign free trade deal after opposition by Belgium
Oct 30 Slovak tennis star Dominika Cibulková beats Germany's Angelique Kerber 6-3, 6-4 to win the WTA Finals title decider in Kallang, Singapore
Oct 31 Lebanon parliament elects Michel Aoun President after 2 1/2 years without a leader