Events Date 2015 October | History by KabAstro

Music Concert

Oct 4 American rock band Van Halen's final public performance takes place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California.

Oct 5 Floods in South Carolina a "1,000-year storm" result in 12 deaths and 9 dams to fail

Right to Die

Oct 5 Governor of California Jerry Brown signs a bill giving terminally ill patients the "right to die"

Oct 5 Nobel prize for Medicine awarded to William C. Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura (Roundworm) and Youyou Tu (Malaria)
Oct 5 Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement announced by trade ministers of 12 countries in Atlanta
Oct 6 Nobel prize for Physics awarded to Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and Arthur McDonald (Canada) for work on neutrinos
Oct 7 Nobel prize in Chemistry awarded to Tomas Lindahl (Sweden), Paul Modrich (US) and Aziz Sancar (Turkey) for work on cells DNA repair

Event of Interest

Oct 7 US President Barack Obama apologises to Doctors without Borders President and the President of Afghanistan for the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz

Oct 8 "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" hip hop album by Wu-Tang released - the most expensive piece of music ever with just one physical two-CD copy, auctioned for about $2 million [1]

Music History

Oct 8 American actress and singer Selena Gomez reveals she has Lupus

Oct 8 Nobel prize for Literature awarded to Belarusian journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich
Oct 9 Selena Gomez releases her studio album "Revival", goes to #1 on Billboard 200
Oct 9 The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 10 Bombing at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey kills at least 95, injures 200
Oct 11 Nepal's parliament elects Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, leader of the Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist party, as Prime Minister

President's Cup

Oct 11 Presidents Cup Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC Korea: Zach Johnson and Phil Mickelson go undefeated as US wins for the 6th successive time with a 15½–14½ victory over the International team

Oct 13 Basketball player Lamar Odom is hospitalised after being found unconscious in a brothel in Nevada
Oct 13 First Democratic presidential candidates debate, broadcast by CNN and held in Las Vegas, Nevada
Oct 13 Marlon James is the first Jamaican writer to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings"

Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo

Oct 17 Amy Schumer's comedy special "Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo" premieres on HBO

Sports History

Oct 17 Star forward Cristiano Ronaldo becomes Real Madrid's all-time leading scorer across all competitions, overtaking club legend Raul with his 324th goal in a 3-0 win over Levante

Oct 18 Rashid Khan makes his One Day International (ODI) debut for Afghanistan against Zimbabwe

Election of Interest

Oct 19 Canadian federal elections: Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party win a majority with 184 seats

Oct 19 US scientists from University of California find evidence life on earth may have begun 4.1 billion years ago, 300 million earlier than previously thought
Oct 20 Migrants arriving in Greece top 500,00 for the year, according to the UN

Event of Interest

Oct 20 US Vice President Joe Biden confirms he will not run for President in 2016

46th US President, Vice President and Senator Joe Biden

Sports History

Oct 21 Alex Puccio ascends Free Range in Boulder Canyon, Colorado, climbing V13 (8B) after recovering from her knee injury

Event of Interest

Oct 21 German Chancellor Angela Merkel says German view of Holocaust will not change, after Benjamin Netanyahu says idea came from Mufti of Jerusalem

Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu

Hello

Oct 23 Adele releases her single "Hello" - becomes 1st song with more than a million downloads in 1st week (1.1m)

Oct 24 Even results in Argentine Presidential Election between Daniel Scioli and Mauricio Macrieven trigger 1st ever Presidential run off 22 Nov

F1 World Champion

Oct 25 British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins US F1 Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas to clinch his second consecutive World Drivers Championship

Spectre

Oct 26 "Spectre", 24th James Bond film, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Daniel Craig premieres in London

Oct 26 7.5 magnitude earthquake hits northern Pakistan and Afghanistan killing over 300
Oct 26 Rashid Khan makes his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for Afghanistan against Zimbabwe
Oct 26 World Health Organization classifies processed meat as carcinogenic

Sports History

Oct 27 American soccer star Abby Wambach announces her retirement

Oct 28 Longest ever 1st game of Baseball World Series (5 hours, 9 minutes); Kansas City Royals beat New York Mets, 5-4; also joint longest by innings (14)
Oct 28 Research indicating Plague dates back to the Bronze age in skeletons 5,783 years old, published by University of Copenhagen team in "Cell"
Oct 28 Third Republican presidential candidates debate run by CNBC in Boulder, Colorado
Oct 28 World Heath Organization ranks Tuberculosis alongside HIV as world's deadliest infectious diseases, killing 1.2 million (2014)
Oct 29 China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years
Oct 29 Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) is elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives, succeeding John Boehner (R-Ohio)
Oct 30 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Keeneland Racetrack; Day 1 winners: Hit It A Bomb, Liam's Map, Catch A Glimpse, Stopchargingmaria

Sports History

Oct 30 Polish tennis star Agnieszka Radwańska wins the WTA Finals title at Kallang. Singapore; beats Czech Petra Kvitová 6–2, 4–6, 6–3

Rugby World Cup

Oct 31 8th Rugby World Cup Final, Twickenham, London: All Blacks fly-half Dan Carter lands 4 penalties and 2 conversions as New Zealand defeats Australia, 34-17

Oct 31 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Keeneland Racetrack; Day 2 winners: Songbird, Mongolian Saturday, Wavell Avenue, Stephanie's Kitten, Runhappy, Tepin, Nyquist, Found, American Pharoah
Oct 31 Russian airliner crashes killing all 224 on board in Sinai Peninsula, Egypt - Russia's worst air disaster