October 2013 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Oct 3 Chinese President Xi Jinping announces plans for a "21st Century Maritime Silk Road", linking China to Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean (Belt and Road Initiative / One Belt One Road) while in Indonesia

Oct 6 53 people are killed in political clashes in Egypt
Oct 7 James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on transport systems in cells
Oct 7 Mulatu Teshome becomes president of Ethiopia
Oct 8 Peter Higgs and François Englert win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the origin of the mass of subatomic particles
Oct 9 60 people are killed in clashes between militias and Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic
Oct 9 Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel win the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on multiscale models for complex chemical systems
Oct 10 Alice Munro is awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for literature
Oct 11 10 people are killed and a hospital fire in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
Oct 11 27 people are killed after a migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily
Oct 11 The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 12 15 people are killed by a series of explosions in a fireworks factory in Vietnam
Oct 12 50 people are killed after a truck veers off of a cliff in La Convencion Province, Peru
Oct 13 109 people are killed in a stampede on a bridge in Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India
Oct 14 Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller win the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on asset prices

Event of Interest

Oct 15 Walmart announces that Doug McMillon, head of their International Division, will become its next CEO

Oct 16 18 people are killed after Typhoon Wipha strikes Japan
Oct 16 21 people are killed after a minibus hits a land mine in Nawa, Syria
Oct 16 49 people are killed after Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes in the Mekong River, Laos
Oct 16 The United States ends its 16-day government shut down and avoids default in a Bi-partisan deal in the Senate
Oct 17 59 people are killed in a wave of attacks on Shia Muslims in Iraq
Oct 18 Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria
Oct 19 11 people are killed after a plane crashes in Namur, Belgium
Oct 19 16 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a suicide bombing Beledweyne, Somalia
Oct 20 30 people are killed by a suicide truck bomber in Hama, Syria
Oct 20 37 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
Oct 20 78 people are killed by cattle raiders in Jonglei, Sudan

Event of Interest

Oct 21 The Parliament of Canada confers Honorary Canadian citizenship on women's rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai

Oct 22 22 security force personal are killed in attacks on military checkpoints in Anbar Province, Iraq
Oct 22 37 Boko Harem Islamist militants are killed by air and ground strikes in Nigeria
Oct 25 74 Boko Harem members killed in a coordinated assault in Borno State, Nigeria
Oct 27 18 people are killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
Oct 27 38 people are killed in a series of car bombings in Bagdhad, Iraq
Oct 27 Giorgi Margvelashvili wins the Georgian Presidential election in a landslide victory
Oct 30 44 people are killed after a bus catches fire in Mahbubnagar, India

Weddings in History

Oct 12 "30 Rock" actor Keith Powell weds visual artist Jill Knox at Tribeca Rooftop in NYC, New York

Ben Feldman

Oct 12 Actor Ben Feldman (33) weds longtime girlfriend Michelle Mulitz at Smokey Glen Farm in Gaithersburg, Maryland

Oct 19 Actress Danielle Fishel (32) weds Tim Belusko in Los Angeles
Oct 20 Actor Rider Strong (33) weds actress Alexandra Barreto (31) in Oregon

Deaths in History

Oct 1 Tom Clancy, American author (Rainbow Six, The Hunt for Red October), dies aged 66

Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911-2013)

Oct 4 Vietnamese general (Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam War) and politician, dies at 102

Oct 8 Rod Grams, American politician (Senator-R-Minnesota 1995-2001, Rep-R-Minnesota 1993-95), and television anchor, dies from cancer at 65
Oct 9 Mark "Chopper" Read, Australian criminal and crime author (Chopper: From the Inside), dies from liver cancer at 58
Oct 9 Stanley Kauffmann, American playwright (Red Handkerchief Man), dies at 97
Oct 9 Wilfried Martens, 44th Prime Minister of Belgium (1979-81, 1981-92), dies from pancreatic cancer at 77

Scott Carpenter (1925-2013)

Oct 10 American astronaut (Mercury 7-Aurora 7), dies from complications from a stroke at 88

Erich Priebke (1913-2013)

Oct 11 German Nazi SS commander and war criminal responsible for the Ardeatine massacre of 335 Italians in Rome, dies in prison of natural causes at 100 [1]

Oct 12 Oscar Hijuelos, American novelist (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love), dies from a heart attack at 62
Oct 15 Peter Miles, British Army officer, businessman and courtier in the Household of Elizabeth II, dies at 89
Oct 15 Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1982-84), dies at 90
Oct 18 Bill Young, American politician, dies from complications from a back injury at 82
Oct 18 Tom Foley, American politician (Rep-D-Washington 1965-1995) and speaker of the house (1989-95), dies from complications from a stroke at 84
Oct 20 Lawrence Klein, American economist who created computer models to forecast economic trends (1980 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences), dies at 93
Oct 21 Major Owens, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1983-2007), dies at 77
Oct 23 Bill Mazer, American sports broadcaster (New York institution in sports reporting; sports trivia expert), dies at 92
Oct 24 Frank Perconte, American sergeant from Easy Company during WWII (portrayed in Band of Brothers), dies at 96
Oct 25 Hal Needham, American stuntman, dies from cancer at 82
Oct 28 Ike Skelton, American politician, dies from pneumonia at 81
Oct 28 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 1st Prime Minister of Poland (1989-90), dies at 86