October 2013

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October 2013 was the tenth month of that common year. It began on a Tuesday and ended after 31 days on a Thursday.

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Current events of October 1, 2013 (2013-10-01) (Tuesday)
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Current events of October 2, 2013 (2013-10-02) (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
  • Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
    • Gunmen shoot down a military helicopter in northern Iraq killing all four crew members. (Reuters)
  • The Russian embassy in Libya's capital Tripoli came under fire after an attempted attack by gunmen who tried to force their way into the compound. One of the attackers was killed and four others were injured according to Libyan authorities. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
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Law and Crime
  • Law enforcement in the U.S. shuts down "Silk Road," an internet marketplace for various illegal activities including the illicit drug trade, and arrests its alleged principal, Ross Ulbricht. (Reuters)
  • The jury in the Michael Jackson Estate vs. AEG Live court case finds AEG Live not guilty of negligence in hiring musician Michael Jackson's physician Conrad Murray. Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in 2011. (Sky News)
Current events of October 3, 2013 (2013-10-03) (Thursday)
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Current events of October 4, 2013 (2013-10-04) (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
  • Islamist protests in Egypt (July 2013–present):
    • Four people are killed after supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi clashed with opponents and security forces. (Reuters), (BBC)
  • US forces initiate two major raids against terror in Africa. (FOX News)
Health
Politics and elections
Current events of October 5, 2013 (2013-10-05) (Saturday)
Armed conflict and attacks
  • Post-civil war clashes in Libya:
    • Gunmen attack a military checkpoint near Bani Walid leaving 15 soldiers dead. (BBC)
Arts and culture
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Sports
Current events of October 6, 2013 (2013-10-06) (Sunday)
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  • The final death toll 2013 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck could rise to between 325 and 363 individuals. (WDRB)
Law and crime
Sports
Current events of October 7, 2013 (2013-10-07) (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
  • Islamist protests in Egypt (July 2013–present)
Disasters and accidents
  • Typhoon Fitow makes landfall in the Chinese province of Fujian, bringing heavy rain and killing at least two people. (BBC)
Politics and elections
Science
Current events of October 8, 2013 (2013-10-08) (Tuesday)
Business and economy
  • Reuters reports that major money market fund managers are avoiding U.S. Treasury debt due to mature in the next few months, as the debt ceiling nears and Governmental deadlock deepens. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
  • Heavy flooding in the Philippines city of Zamboanga leads to thousands of families being displaced and schools and most government offices being closed. (ABS-CBN)
  • At least four people are killed and hundreds of thousands of people evacuated as Typhoon Fitow hit eastern China yesterday. (Reuters)
International relations
Science
Law and crime
  • A Denver couple, Wayne Sperling, 66, (jailed) and Lorinda Bailey, 35, (free) are accused of felony child abuse in one of the most egregious cases of suspected abuse in state history. Four boys, ages 2 to 6, were living in a house filled with cat feces and urine, with flies everywhere. They were nonverbal, malnourished, filthy, and uneducated, communicating to caseworkers and police in grunts. The couple were accused of misdemeanor abuse of 3 other children in 2006. (MSN)
  • Four people living at the same address in Savannah, Tennessee (3 men and 1 woman), believed to be involved in an area child pornography investigation and who had earlier fled a September 2013 FBI investigation (where computers and cameras were seized) are found dead of gunshot wounds (they may have been drugged) in a murder-suicide on a road in Double Springs, Winston County, Alabama. (MSN)
  • Proposals for a Royal Charter on self-regulation of the British press put forward by the press industry itself are rejected by the Privy Council. (BBC)
Politics and elections
Current events of October 9, 2013 (2013-10-09) (Wednesday)
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Law and crime
  • The People's Republic of China arrests 139 people in Xinjiang for allegedly calling for jihad. (AFP via Euronews)
  • Andrea Sanderlin, the Scarsdale "Pot Mom", admits to running a multimillion dollar marijuana operation. (NY Daily News)
  • A retired policeman is killed after firing over a dozen rounds at the Wheeling Federal Building in Wheeling, West Virginia. (MSN)
  • "Elmo" is sent to jail as Times Square characters raise concerns. A bogus costumed Elmo, who collected tips for cuddling children in family photos in New York's Times Square, is sent to jail for a year for trying to extort $2 million from the Girl Scouts of the USA. (Reuters)
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Science
Current events of October 10, 2013 (2013-10-10) (Thursday)
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  • Scott Carpenter, Mercury 7 astronaut and second American to orbit the earth, dies at 88 following complications from a stroke.(Fox News)
Current events of October 11, 2013 (2013-10-11) (Friday)
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Current events of October 12, 2013 (2013-10-12) (Saturday)
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Current events of October 13, 2013 (2013-10-13) (Sunday)
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Law and crime
  • Five people are injured during a shooting at a Hmong New Year's celebration in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. Two men, 19 and 21 years old, are arrested. (CNN)
  • Over 380 people are detained after an anti-migrant Russian nationalist riot in southern Moscow. (Russia News)
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Current events of October 14, 2013 (2013-10-14) (Monday)
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Current events of October 15, 2013 (2013-10-15) (Tuesday)
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Current events of October 16, 2013 (2013-10-16) (Wednesday)
Armed conflict and attacks
  • Syrian civil war:
    • At least 21 civilians are killed when their minibus hits a land mine in southern Syrian town of Nawa, with opposition activists blaming the Syrian army. (Reuters), (BBC)
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Science
  • Divers in Russia recover a 570kg (1,255lb) portion of the Chelyabinsk meteor that landed on February 15 2013. It is one of the largest meteorite fragments found to date. (BBC)
Current events of October 17, 2013 (2013-10-17) (Thursday)
Armed conflict and attacks
Arts and culture
  • Swedish archaeologists in Old Uppsala unearth a great number of mysterious posts in perfect alignment for more than a kilometre in what is suggested to be a display of power of a fifth century Swedish chieftain. (Dagens Nyheter)
Business and economy
Disasters
Politics and elections
Current events of October 18, 2013 (2013-10-18) (Friday)
Business and economy
  • China's economy grew at a rate of 7.8 percent in the third quarter. (Reuters)
International relations
Law and crime
Politics and Elections
Science
  • Asteroid 2013 TV135 is discovered with an approximately 1 in 63,000 chance of colliding with the earth in 2032. (CNN)
Current events of October 19, 2013 (2013-10-19) (Saturday)
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Current events of October 20, 2013 (2013-10-20) (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
  • Syrian civil war:
  • Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
    • Suicide bombers targeting police and local officials in Rawa, northwest of Baghdad, kill 15 people. (AFP)
    • At least 37 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a cafe in the Shia-dominated area of Baghdad. (BBC)
  • South Sudan internal conflict (2011–present):
  • Gunmen open fire on a Christian wedding in a Cairo suburb in Egypt, with at least three people killed and nine others injured. (BBC)
Business and economy
  • Toyota Motor Corporation recalls 885,000 vehicles due to electrical problems that could prevent airbags from deploying. (NBC)
Disasters and accidents
Politics and elections
Current events of October 21, 2013 (2013-10-21) (Monday)
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Current events of October 22, 2013 (2013-10-22) (Tuesday)
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Current events of October 23, 2013 (2013-10-23) (Wednesday)
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  • 2013 protests in Tunisia:
    • Thousands of Tunisian protesters take to the streets calling for the Islamist government led by the Ennahda Movement to step down hours before crisis talks between the government and opposition leaders. (Reuters)
  • A Chinese newspaper publishes a rare appeal for the release of one of its journalists held by police. (BBC)
  • Thousands of opposition supporters protest in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh following disputed July elections which saw incumbent Prime Minister Hun Sen re-elected. (Times of India)
  • President Obama's staff has unmasked and fired a national security official who tweeted critical comments under a pseudonym. (USA Today)
Sports
  • 2013 World Series: Jon Lester, Red Sox win Game 1 against mistake-ridden Cardinals (washingtonpost.com)
Current events of October 24, 2013 (2013-10-24) (Thursday)
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Current events of October 25, 2013 (2013-10-25) (Friday)
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Science
  • The complete nuclear genome of a Siberian boy who died 24,000 years ago suggests that about a third of the ancestry of today's Native Americans can be traced to Western Eurasia, with only two-thirds coming from Eastern Asia. (Science Magazine/AAAS)
Current events of October 26, 2013 (2013-10-26) (Saturday)
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Law and crime
Politics and elections
  • Results of the Czech legislative election are very fragmented, the big winner being the new centrist liberal ANO 2011 which gains 47 out of 200 seats. (BBC)
Sports
Current events of October 27, 2013 (2013-10-27) (Sunday)
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  • The United Kingdom braces itself for the St Jude storm, the worst since 1987, which is due to make landfall tonight. (BBC)
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Current events of October 28, 2013 (2013-10-28) (Monday)
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Current events of October 29, 2013 (2013-10-29) (Tuesday)
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Current events of October 30, 2013 (2013-10-30) (Wednesday)
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Media
  • The UK's Privy Council grants a Royal Charter on regulating the British press after the newspaper industry loses a last minute legal bid to seek an injunction against the plans. (BBC)
Sports
Current events of October 31, 2013 (2013-10-31) (Thursday)
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Business and economy
  • The United States FAA relents and permits limited use of electronic gadgets on planes. (FOX News)
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