Historical Events in 2018 (Part 6)

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• Oct 3 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Frances Arnold, Gregory Winter and George Smith for their use of evolution to produce new enzymes and antibodies [1]
• Oct 3 Wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor arrested on corruption charges

• Oct 5 Banksy work "Girl With Balloon" automatically shreds moments after being sold for 1 million pounds in London, renamed "Love is in the Bin"
• Oct 5 Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad for "efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war"
• Oct 5 Record price at auction for a living female artist as Jenny Saville's "Propped" sells for £9.5 million in London
• Oct 5 US unemployment figures hit lowest level since 1969 - 3.7% according to Department of Labor
• Oct 6 Australia records the biggest comeback in Rugby Championship history in beating Argentina 45-34 in Salta; Wallabies trial 31-7 at halftime but score 5 second half tries to none to overwhelm Pumas

• Oct 6 New Zealand claims 6th overall, and 3rd straight Rugby Championship with 32-20 win over South Africa in Pretoria; All Blacks outscore Springboks 4 tries to 3
• Oct 6 Oil tanker collision with a car leaves at least 50 people dead and one hundred with serious burns near Kisantu, Democratic Republic of Congo
• Oct 7 China confirms it has detained Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, who resigns from his position after being reported missing
• Oct 7 Jodie Whittaker debuts in her first full episode as the 13th and first female Doctor Who on BBC television
• Oct 7 Limousine crash kills 20 people, including two pedestrians in Schoharie, New York
• Oct 7 Romanian referendum to ban same sex marriage fails with only 20.4% voting
• Oct 8 Major climate report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the UN says planet will warm 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) by 2040 with dire results

• Oct 8 Nobel prize for Economics awarded to William Nordhaus for climate change and Paul Romer for endogenous growth theory
• Oct 8 Red Sox utility Brock Holt becomes first MLB player to hit for the cycle in a postseason game during Boston's 16-1 Game 3 rout of the NY Yankees in the AL Division Series at Yankee Stadium

• Oct 10 Flash floods kills at least 10 in Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, Majorca, Spain
• Oct 10 Hurricane Michael makes landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as a category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph (250 km/h), going on to kill 27, having killed 15 in Central America
• Oct 11 Russian Soyuz spacecraft makes emergency landing when rocket fails two minutes after liftoff, with American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut aboard
• Oct 11 Swedish dramatic soprano Nina Stemme is awarded the fourth $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize

• Oct 11 World's new longest flight flies from Singapore to Newark Airport, New Jersey takes 17 hours 52 mins
• Oct 12 US air strike in central Somalia kills about 60 al-Shabab militants
• Oct 13 Oldest known human remains from Poland at 115,000 years from revealed to be Neanderthal child from Ciemna Cave eaten by a large bird

• Oct 14 Afghan batsman Hazratullah Zazai becomes only the 6th player in cricket history (3rd in T20) to hit 6-sixes in an over; scores 62 in 17 balls in Kabul Zwanan loss v Balkh Legends in Afghanistan Premier League
• Oct 14 Flash floods in Aude region, France kill at least 10 people
• Oct 15 American retailer Sears files for bankruptcy
• Oct 15 At least 180,000 migrants driven out of Anglo and back into the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Oct 15 Caravan of up to 4,000 Central American migrants that started in Honduras reaches Guatemala, heading for Mexico and the US
• Oct 15 Indian minister and editor MJ Akbar files a defamation case after being accused of sexual harassment by multiple women in #MeToo case

• Oct 16 Chairman of China's Xinjiang’s government defends its detention camps for Uighur Muslims saying they provided “vocational education and training”
• Oct 16 Man Booker Prize is won by Anna Burns' "Milkman", the first winner from Northern Ireland

• Oct 17 Australian state of Queensland decriminalizes abortion
• Oct 17 Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch puppeteer Caroll Spinney leaves "Sesame Street" after 50 years
• Oct 17 Canada legalizes the sale of recreational cannabis, the second country after Uruguay
• Oct 17 India's junior foreign minister MJ Akbar is highest official to resign in #MeToo case after sexual harassment accusations by numerous women
• Oct 17 Student shoots and detonates a bomb killing 20 with 40 injured at Kerch polytechnic college, Crimea

• Oct 19 "Halloween" film reboot starring Jamie Curtis makes a record $77m for a horror film with a female lead, biggest debut any film with female lead over 55 in US
• Oct 20 12,000 year old fossil called "Luzia", oldest known fossil in South America announced found mostly intact after devastating fire at Brazil's National Museum
• Oct 20 Australia's center-right coalition government loses its 1-seat majority by losing the Wentworth by-election

• Oct 21 Sectarian fighting between Muslim and Christian youths kill 55 at Kasuwan Magani, Nigeria
• Oct 21 Train derails in Yilan County, Taiwan, killing 18 and injuring 178

• Oct 22 Cameroon's President Paul Biya wins seventh term in office, extending his 36 years in office, in election marred by intimidation and low turnout

• Oct 23 European Commission rejects Italy's budget, first country to be rejected

• Oct 23 Megyn Kelly is criticized after making comments supporting blackface on her NBC show
• Oct 23 Microplastics found in human stools for the first time by Austrian scientists

• Oct 23 World's oldest intact shipwreck, ancient Greek vessel 2,400 years old, found at bottom of the Black Sea by archaeologists
• Oct 24 EU directive bans single-use plastics by 2021

• Oct 24 Joel Embiid becomes the first NBA player to reach 30 points and 19 rebounds in the same game since Charles Barkley in 1991

• Oct 24 Largest jackpot in US history at $1.6 billion won by one person in South Carolina

• Oct 24 Scientists confirm East Island in Hawaii, half a mile long, has been wiped out after contact with Hurricane Walaka
• Oct 25 First work of art produced by artificial intelligence "Edmond de Belamy" conceived by Obvious sells for $432,500 at Christie's in New York
• Oct 25 Flash floods near the Red Sea in Jordan kill 17 as a school bus is washed away
• Oct 25 Google says it has fired 48 people for sexual harassment after New York Times reveals Android software creator Andy Rubin got $90M package when let go for sexual harassment
• Oct 25 Sahle-Work Zewde becomes Ethiopia's first female President and Africa's only female head of state after being elected by parliament
• Oct 25 Super Typhoon Yutu strikes the Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan and Tinian with winds of 180mph (290km/h)

• Oct 26 Rhine River in drought with lowest levels since 1920s forces German government to release oil reserves after barge shipments disrupted
• Oct 26 Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc arrested for sending 14 pipe bombs to prominent US Democrats
• Oct 27 Australian 7-year old mare Winx wins unprecedented fourth consecutive Cox Plate at Moonee Valley in Melbourne; her record 29th-straight win and her 22nd Group 1 racing success
• Oct 27 EPL club Leicester City’s billionaire Thai owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash in the carpark outside the club’s King Power Stadium following 1-1 draw against West Ham United
• Oct 27 Gunman shoots and kills 11 people and injures six at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in an anti-Semitic attack

• Oct 28 Michael D. Higgins is re-elected Irish president
• Oct 28 Political crisis in Sri Lanka after President Sirisena sacks Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe and the cabinet, suspends parliament for two weeks with one man killed in protests
• Oct 28 Ukrainian tennis star Elina Svitolina registers biggest win of her career when she rallies for a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 triumph over American Sloane Stephens in a classic WTA Finals title decider in Singapore

• Oct 29 Japanese Princess Ayako of Japan marries commoner Kei Moriya at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, giving up her royal status
• Oct 29 Lion Air flight JT 610 crashes into the sea just after takeoff near Jakarta, Indonesia, with the loss of all 189 on board

• Oct 29 New research says cacao tree first used in Ecuador by Mayo Chinchipe culture, 5000 years ago, not in central America as previously thought
• Oct 29 Storms in Italy kill at least 11 with 75% of Venice flooded and two tornadoes striking Terracina
• Oct 29 World Scrabble Championship won for the fourth time by New Zealand Malaysian Nigel Richards with the word "groutier" (bad-tempered)
• Oct 30 German ex-nurse Niels Högel admits in court to killing over 100 patients, making him one of the world's worst serial killers
• Oct 30 US Pentagon sends 5,200 troops to Mexican border in advance of migrant caravan from Central America
• Oct 30 WWF conservation group says "exploding human consumption" has caused a 60% decline in all wildlife between 1970 and 2014

• Oct 31 In landmark verdict, Pakistani Supreme Court acquits Christian woman of blasphemy against the prophet Mohammed after eight years on death row
• Oct 31 US and Great Britain call for a cease-fire in Saudi-led war in Yemen, in 3-year war that has claimed over 10,000 lives and created famine conditions

• Nov 1 Google employees stage mass walkout to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment
• Nov 1 Ground assault mounted on Yemeni port city of Hudaydah by Saudi-backed government forces
• Nov 1 Palau becomes the first country to ban sunscreen and its chemicals which bleach coral reefs

• Nov 2 Tiger thought to have killed 13 people shot dead after month-long hunt near Pandharkawada, central India
• Nov 3 Truck loses control hitting 31 cars and killing at least 15 people near a tollbooth in Lanzhou, China

• Nov 4 Death toll from week-long storm in Italy rises to 29 with death of nine people in floods in Casteldaccia, Sicily
• Nov 4 New York City Marathon: Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia runs 2:05:59, 2nd fastest men's time in history; Kenya's Mary Keitany captures her 4th women's NYC crown in 2:22:48
• Nov 5 "Big Brother" reality show has its last episode in the UK on Channel 5, having run since 2000; series revived in 2023
• Nov 5 BBC opens its largest news bureau outside the UK in Nairobi, Kenya with 300 journalists
• Nov 5 Child suicide rate in Japan at 30-year high with 250 taking their lives 2016/17 according to Government Ministry
• Nov 5 More than 80 students and teachers kidnapped from a boarding school in Bamenda, Cameroon

• Nov 5 Taskforce set up to identify and punish LGBT people in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

• Nov 6 Colorado elects Jared Polis, the country's first openly male gay governor
• Nov 6 Colorado votes to abolish slavery as a form of punishment in state constitution

• Nov 6 Human longevity less than 10% dependent on genetics according to study published in journal "Genetics" based on 400 million people from Ancestry.com
• Nov 6 Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) and Rashida Tlaib (Michigan) are the first Muslim women to be elected to the US House of Representatives
• Nov 6 In US Midterm elections Democrats retake control of the House of Representatives after eight years, the Senate is held by Republicans
• Nov 6 More than 200 mass graves containing thousands of victims of ISIS discovered in former ISIS held areas according to UN report
• Nov 6 Record 19 black female judicial candidates all elected in Harris County, Texas, after campaigning together under "Black Girl Magic"
• Nov 6 Sharice Davids (Kansas) and Deb Haaland (New Mexico) are the first Native American women to be elected to the US House of Representatives

• Nov 7 Ex-marine opens fire at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, shooting 12, including a police officer, and himself
• Nov 7 US President Donald Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appoints Matthew Whitaker in his place as acting Attorney General
• Nov 7 World's oldest figurative painting of a beast at least 40,000 years old identified in Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave, Indonesian Borneo
• Nov 8 Authorities report more than 150 people have been killed in week-long assault by government forces on port of Hudaydah in Yemen
• Nov 8 Azerbaijan woman who spent £16m in Harrods granted bail in UK after being arrested for suspested embezzlement under new laws
• Nov 8 China's state news agency is the first to introduce a virtual newsreader, developed by Chinese search engine Sogou [1]
• Nov 8 CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's White House clearance revoked after continuing to question President Donald Trump while an intern tried to wrestle the microphone off him
• Nov 8 Deadliest fire in Californian history, the Camp Fire starts at Plumas National Forest spreads in Butte County destroying town of Paradise, more than 13,000 buildings and killing at least 88
• Nov 8 Mass grave of 200 people discovered on border of Somali and Oromia regions, Ethiopia, in investigation into atrocities by former regional president Abdi Mohammed
• Nov 8 Qatar delivers $15 million in cash to pay civil servants in Gaza after earlier sending fuel to increase electricity from 4 to 8 hours a day
• Nov 8 Woolsey Fire starts near Thousand Oaks, California with Malibu and Calabasas evacuated, kills three
• Nov 9 Amid Californian forest fires US President Donald Trump accuses state forest management of "gross mismanagement", threatens to withhold funding
• Nov 9 Attacker stabs three, killing one in Melbourne, Australia, with homeless man hailed as hero for using shopping trolley to stop him

• Nov 9 Mudslide after heavy rain in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil kills 10
• Nov 9 Three car bombs explode in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 52 people and injuring 100

• Nov 11 Democratic Republic of Congo announces its worst-ever outbreak of Ebola with 198 deaths

• Nov 12 Israeli secret operation in Gaza kills eight including one Israeli and an Hamas Commander, igniting tensions with retaliatory rocket attack from Gaza
• Nov 13 Amazon announces two new corporate outposts at Queens, New York and Arlington, Virginia
• Nov 13 Four members of a family arrested for the Rhoden family massacre where eight people were shot, south of Columbus, Ohio in 2016
• Nov 13 Kristine E. Guillaume is named the first black woman to head prestigious Harvard student newspaper "The Crimson"
• Nov 13 Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court blocks President Maithripala Sirisena from dissolving parliament

• Nov 14 Archaeologists announce discovery of ancient Greek city of Tenea near Corinth, supposedly founded by captives from Trojan War
• Nov 14 Astronomers announce discovery of Super-Earth planet (3.2x bigger than Earth) orbiting red dwarf Barnard's star, 6 light years away
• Nov 14 Attempt to move 720,000 Rohingya back to Myanmar from Bangladesh refugee camps amid international criticism. They refuse to go.
• Nov 14 Edward Hopper's painting "Chop Suey" sells $92 million, a record for the artist at auction in New York

• Nov 14 Large impact crater, 31 km wide, from iron meteorite identified under Hiawatha Glacier in Greenland
• Nov 14 New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom wins NL Cy Young Award; his 10 wins fewest ever by a Cy Young winner in a non-strike-shortened season; MLB-leading 1.70 ERA; 29 consecutive start streak longest in MLB history

• Nov 16 CIA concludes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
• Nov 16 Elevator falls down 84 floors when hoist rope breaks, all six people survive unharmed at John Hancock Center, Chicago
• Nov 16 The kilogram is refined by abstract constants replacing the Le Grand K, along with the ampere (electrical current) and kelvin (temperature) at a conference in Paris
• Nov 17 Ireland beats Rugby World Cup champions New Zealand, 16-9 at Aviva Stadium, Dublin; first victory over the All Blacks ever on home soil; flyhalf Johnny Sexton kicks 3 penalties and a conversion
• Nov 17 Missing Argentine naval submarine ARA San Juan with 44 on board found on sea floor a year after it disappeared off coast of Argentina
• Nov 17 Protests across France against rising fuel prices leave 400 injured

• Nov 18 American missionary John Allen Chau killed on forbidden North Sentinel Island, Bay of Bengal by one of world's most isolated tribe
• Nov 18 APEC Summit in Papa New Guinea fails to produce a joint agreement for first time in two decades after US and China clash on definition of trade

• Nov 19 Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn arrested in Japan for financial misconduct

• Nov 20 Airbnb bans listings in Israeli settlements in the West Bank

• Nov 20 Mississippi 15 week abortion ban overturned by US judge saying it violated women's constitutional rights
• Nov 20 More than 40 religious scholars killed, at event to mark birth of prophet Mohammed, by a suicide bomber near the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan
• Nov 20 Sell-off in technology stocks leads stock market losses wiping out all 2018 market gains

• Nov 21 Former Guatemalan soldier Santos López Alonzo sentenced to 5,160 years for killing 171 people in Dos Erres during the civil war
• Nov 21 RIBA’s best building in the world biennial international prize awarded to Canuanã school in Brazil
• Nov 22 Leaning Tower of Pisa's tilt reduced by 4 cm in 20 year project to stabilise it
• Nov 23 Alabama police kill the wrong suspect after a gunman shoots 18-year-old man and 12-year-old girl at Riverchase Galleria Mall in Hoovermall
• Nov 23 Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana apologize for culturally insensitive video and media posts insulting Chinese culture, cancel Shanghai fashion show

• Nov 23 US Federal Climate report estimates climate change will reduce economy by 10% by 2100 with $141 billion cost from heat-related deaths, $118 billion from sea level rise
• Nov 24 Copa Libertadores Final 2nd-leg between Buenos Aires rivals River Plate & Boca Juniors is postponed after Boca bus attacked by River fans; players suffer cuts & affects of police tear gas; River wins, 5-3 on aggregate when 2nd-leg played in Madrid, Spain (9 Dec)
• Nov 24 Cruise boat sinks on Lake Victoria near Kampala, Uganda, killing at least 29
• Nov 24 ICC Women's Cricket T20 World Cup, Antigua: Ashleigh Gardner with 33 from 26 balls and 3 for 22 leads Australia (106/2) to 4th T20 WC; beat England (105)
• Nov 24 Taiwanese voters vote against referendums to legalise same-sex marriage
• Nov 25 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Iran's Kermanshah province injuring at least 700
• Nov 25 British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to claim his 5th Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 88 points from Sebastian Vettel; Mercedes' 5th straight Constructors title

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