Events Date 2013 October | History by KabAstro

Maritime Silk Road

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 4 German singer Helene Fischer releases "Farbenspiel", most successful album ever by a German female artist, over 2.4 million sold
Oct 5 New Zealand beats South Africa, 38-27 in Johannesburg to retain the Rugby Championship with an undefeated record; All Black flanker Liam Messam crosses for 2 tries

Klitschko vs. Povetkin

Oct 5 Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko beats Russian Alexander Povetkin in a 12 round unanimous points decision in Moscow to retain his WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO heavyweight titles

Oct 6 53 people are killed in political clashes in Egypt
Oct 6 Presidents Cup Golf, Muirfield Village GC: US wins for 5th successive time with an 18½–15½ victory over the International team
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 12 Timothy Bradley defeats Juan Manuel Márquez to win the WBA Welterweight boxing title
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

Better In Stereo

Oct 15 Dove Cameron releases single "Better In Stereo"

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 MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 4 games to 2
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 19 MLB American League Championship: Boston Red Sox beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 2
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 "Lego Marvel Super Heroes" first released in North America for some formats including Xbox and Wii - Lego's best-selling video game

Thor: The Dark World

Oct 22 "Thor: The Dark World", directed by Alan Taylor, starring Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman, premieres in London

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

Sports History

Oct 27 American Serena Williams wins her 4th season ending tennis title; beats Li Na of China 2–6, 6–3, 6–0 in the WTA Championship final in Istanbul, Turkey

F1 World Champion

Oct 27 German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel wins the Indian Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit to clinch his 4th straight F1 World Drivers Championship; 6th consecutive GP victory

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