Events in History
- Oct 1 41 children are killed by a suicide bombing on the Akrameh al-Makhzumi school in Homs, Syria
- Oct 2 15 people are killed after a gunpowder plant explodes in Gorni Lom, Bulgaria
- Oct 2 Siege of Syrian town Kobani and its surrounds by ISIS prompts 130,00 people to flee the area
- Oct 3 83 million accounts are compromised after a cyber attack on JP Morgan Chase & 9 other financial institutions
- Oct 6 John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Oct 7 Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light emitting diodes
- Oct 7 Spanish nurse diagnosed with Ebola, the first case outside west Africa
- Oct 8 Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
- Oct 9 Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus
- Oct 9 Patrick Modiano wins the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Prize
Oct 10 Malala Yousafzai & Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
Election of Interest
Oct 12 Evo Morales is re-elected President of Bolivia
- Oct 14 Richard Flanagan's novel "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize
Event of Interest
Oct 14 Utah State University receives terrorist threats pertaining to Anita Sarkeesian's planned lecture the following day
- Oct 14 World Health Organization announce Ebola virus death toll at 4,447, and the fatality rate has reached 70%
- Oct 16 New Zealand, Malaysia, Angola, Spain and Venezuela are elected to the United Nations Security Council
- Oct 19 A working human intestine is generated in a laboratory from stem cells in the United States
Event of Interest
Oct 20 Joko Widodo becomes President of Indonesia
- Oct 20 Laquan McDonald (17) is shot dead by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke while jaywalking, the murder caught on video footage
- Oct 21 Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
Election of Interest
Oct 26 Dilma Rousseff is re-elected President of Brazil
- Oct 30 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks win the 2014 Japan Series
Deaths in History
Jean-Claude Duvalier (1951-2014)
Oct 4 Haitian dictator and deposed Haitian president-for-life (1971-86) infamous for his brutality, dies of a heart attack at 63
- Oct 5 Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov, Soviet and Russian director (Taganka Theatre), dies at 97
- Oct 6 Marian Seldes, American actress (A Delicate Balance, Father's Day), dies at 86
- Oct 9 Carolyn Ashley Kizer, American writer, dies from complications of dementia 89
- Oct 14 Elizabeth Peña, American actress, dies from cirrhosis at 55
- Oct 16 John Spencer-Churchill, 11th duke of Marlborough, English large landowner, dies at 88
- Oct 18 Edward Regan, American Republican politician and Comptroller of New York (1979-93), dies at 84
- Oct 19 Lynda Bellingham, Canadian-born English actress, dies from colon cancer at 66
- Oct 20 John Hoskyns, English policy advisor to UK PM Margaret Thatcher (1979-82), dies at 87
- Oct 20 Oscar de la Renta, Domincan American fashion designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1973), dies at 82
Ben Bradlee (1921-2014)
Oct 21 American editor, journalist and newspaper executive (Washington Post), dies at 93
- Oct 21 Gough Whitlam, Australian politician (Prime Minister, 1972-1975), dies at 98
- Oct 23 Frank Mankiewicz, American journalist, president of National Public Radio and Democratic political adviser, dies at 90 [1]
- Oct 23 Tullio Regge, Italian physicist (Regge theory), dies at 83
- Oct 28 Galway Kinnell, American author, dies from leukemia at 87
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