Events Date 2016 October | History by KabAstro

Oct 2 Colombia votes against a peace agreement with rebel group FARC in a national referendum

Film & TV History

Oct 2 Kim Kardashian is robbed at gunpoint of $10 million worth of jewelry in her hotel in Paris

Ryder Cup

Oct 2 Ryder Cup Golf, Hazeltine National GC: US regains Cup; beats Europe, 17-11; Americans Brooks Koepka, Brandt Snedeker & Patrick Reed each win 3 matches

Sports History

Oct 2 Veteran broadcaster Vin Scully calls his final LA Dodgers game (7-1 loss in San Francisco) after a record 67 MLB seasons

Oct 3 Yoshinori Ohsumi from Japan wins Nobel Prize for Medicine for research into autophagy

Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 7 Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize for attempts to end armed conflict with FARC

President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos

Event of Interest

Oct 7 Washington Post releases videotape of Donald Trump boasting of groping and kissing women without consent

45th US President, Businessman and TV Personality Donald Trump

Oct 8 140 people are killed in an air strike during a wake in Sanaa, Yemen
Oct 8 New Zealand routs South Africa, 57-14 in Durban to win their 4th Rugby Championship; undefeated All Blacks score 9 tries to 1, 2 each to Israel Dagg, TJ Perenara and Beauden Barrett

Event of Interest

Oct 9 Second US Presidential debate: Hostile confrontation between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at Washington University, St. Louis

US Secretary of State, Senator and US First Lady Hillary Clinton

Film & TV History

Oct 10 Actress Shailene Woodley arrested for trespassing while protesting against proposed Dakota Access Pipeline

Oct 10 Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to UK-born Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland for work on contract theory
Oct 11 South Korean firm Samsung announces it will permanently stop production of Note 7 phones after complaints devices caught fire
Oct 12 Auston Matthews becomes 1st player to score 4 goals in his NHL debut for the Toronto Maple Leafs at Ottawa
Oct 12 James Charles (17) becomes the 1st male face of make-up label CoverGirl

Nobel Prize in Literature

Oct 13 American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

Oct 16 Ed Whitlock (85) becomes oldest person to complete a marathon under 4 hours, at Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 3 hours 56 minutes
Oct 17 Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-11 launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northern China
Oct 18 US White Houses says it is "confident" Russia behind recent email hacking and attempts to influence US election
Oct 19 Third US Presidential debate: Donald Trump notably refuses to say if he will accept the result of election during debate with Hillary Clinton at Nevada University, Las Vegas
Oct 22 AT&T buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion
Oct 24 Suicide bomb kills 61 and injures 117 at a police training academy in Quetta, Pakistan, ISIS claims responsibility
Oct 25 4 killed on a theme park ride at Dreamworld, in Queensland, Australia
Oct 25 Paul Beatty becomes the 1st American to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel "The Sellout"
Oct 26 Jesus' supposed tomb is opened for the first time in 500 years by archaeologists for restoration in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem [1]

How Far I'll Go

Oct 28 Disney Records releases Alessia Cara's single "How Far I'll Go" from the film "Moana"

Oct 28 Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area established off Antarctica - world's largest marine protected area at 598,000 square miles (2.06 million square-kilometers), larger than Mexico [1]
Oct 30 6.6-magnitude earthquake hits central Italy - strongest in Italy for 36 years
Oct 30 Canada and the EU sign free trade deal after opposition by Belgium
Oct 30 Oakland Raiders break the single game record for most penalties in an NFL game gaining 23 in win over Tampa Bay Buccaneers