Sports History
Oct 2 Veteran broadcaster Vin Scully calls his final LA Dodgers game (7-1 loss in SF) after a record 67 MLB seasons
Film & TV History
Oct 2 Kim Kardashian is robbed at gunpoint of $10 million worth of jewelry in her hotel in Paris
Historic Event
Oct 7 Washington Post releases videotape of Donald Trump boasting of groping and kissing women without consent
Historic Event
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 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 attempts 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 28 Disney Records releases Alessia Cara's single "How Far I'll Go" from the film "Moana"
- Oct 30 6.6-magnitude earthquake hits central Italy - strongest in Italy for 36 years
- 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 30 Oakland Raiders break the single game record for most penalties in an NFL game gaining 23 in win over Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Oct 31 Lebanon parliament elects Michel Aoun President after 2 1/2 years without a leader