Historical Events in 2019 (Part 6)

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• Oct 10 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Austrian Peter Handke
• Oct 10 3,500 women are the first to be allowed to attend a football match in Iran for a World Cup qualifier in Tehran, since the Islamic revolution

• Oct 12 California is the 1st US state to pass law banning sale and manufacture of new fur products

• Oct 12 Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall on the Izu Peninsula near Tokyo, Japan, bringing record rainfall and killing at least 56 people
• Oct 13 Ecuadorean President Lenín Moreno cancels his austerity plan, in deal with indigenous leaders, restoring fuel subsidies, ending weeks of violent protests
• Oct 13 Kenya's Brigid Kosgei sets new world record of 2:14.04 for the women's marathon in Chicago, beating Paula Radcliffe's 16-year-old mark

• Oct 13 Tunisian presidential election won by academic Kais Saied defeating media mogul Nabil Karoui

• Oct 14 Hundreds of forest fires break out in western Lebanon, killing three and prompting calls for international help
• Oct 14 Nobel prize for Economics awarded to Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer for research on ways to fight poverty

• Oct 15 Gunfight between Mexican security forces and armed civilians leaves 15 dead, in Guerrero state, a day after 13 police killed in a drug cartel ambush in Michoacán state
• Oct 15 Record 12 Democratic presidential candidates participate in a live TV debate in Westerville, Ohio
• Oct 16 Egyptian archaeologists announce discovery of more than 20 painted wooden coffins from Theban necropolis of Asasif
• Oct 16 First plant-powered selfie taken by Pete the Fern as part of research into use of microbial fuel cells at London Zoo (London, England)

• Oct 17 Mick Mulvaney, President Trump's acting chief of staff says the White House withheld nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine to further Trump's own political interests
• Oct 17 The 'Blob', mysterious yellow slime organism (physarum polycephalum) with 720 sexes, moves and can solve problems to go on display at the Paris Zoological Park

• Oct 17 US adults identifying as Christian falls 12% in a decade to 2/3 according to the Pew Research Center, born-again Protestants falls to 16%
• Oct 18 1st all-female spacewalk by NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir outside the International Space Station
• Oct 18 Charges of disorderly conduct officially dropped against participants of the 1939 equal rights protest sit-in at Alexandria (Virginia) Library [1]

• Oct 19 Sunnyside, Queens, New York City: Intersection of 46th Street and Skillman Avenue named "Ethel Plimack Way", in honor of a longtime resident [1]
• Oct 19 UK parliament votes for the Letwin amendment in a special Saturday sitting, which forces Boris Johnson to ask the EU for an extension and delays vote on his Brexit deal

• Oct 20 1st New York to Sydney non-stop test flight by a commercial airline achieved by a Qantas Boeing 787 Dreamliner, takes 19 hours 42 minutes
• Oct 21 Australia's biggest newspapers all blank out their front pages in protest against press restrictions

• Oct 21 Facebook says it has taken down four state-backed disinformation campaigns, three from Iran, one from Russia in addition to dozens earlier this year
• Oct 21 Lebanon government approves economic reforms after 5 days of protests, largest in a decade
• Oct 21 Thailand's King Vajiralongkorn strips his royal consort Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi of her titles for "misbehaviour and disloyalty against the monarch" two months after she was appointed to them
• Oct 21 World's oldest natural pearl, 8,000 years old, announced discovered during excavations at Marawah Island, near Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Oct 22 Chilean president Sebastián Piñera agrees to meet opposition leaders after 15 people killed in growing nationwide protests over living costs and inequality

• Oct 22 Legislation for Northern Ireland legalizing same-sex marriage and abortion comes into effect

• Oct 22 Top US diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, testifies President Donald Trump tied aid to Ukraine to demands the country open an investigation into the Biden family
• Oct 22 UK parliament approves Brexit deal to leave the EU but rejects legislation to fast-track it to meet October 31 deadline
• Oct 22 US drug company Biogen claims to have created 1st drug to slow advance of Alzheimer's disease called aducanumab

• Oct 23 Google research lab claims it has achieved Quantum Supremacy, performing calculation in 3 mins that wold take a supercomputer 10,000 years
• Oct 23 Hong Kong Legislative Council scraps the extradition bill that sparked months of protests and unrest
• Oct 23 Lorry containing 39 bodies of Vietnamese nationals found in Essex, England, man arrested for people smuggling and murder
• Oct 24 Bangladesh sentences 16 men to death for the murder of Nusrat Jahan Rafi, who was set on fire after accusing a teacher of inappropriate behavior

• Oct 25 Leicester City rout Southampton, 9-0 at St. Mary's to record biggest ever win by an away side in an English top-flight league match in the history of the Football League
• Oct 26 Raid by US Special Forces kills ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria
• Oct 27 Argentine presidential election won by Alberto Fernandez, defeating sitting President Mauricio Macri
• Oct 27 California Governor Gavin Newson declares state of emergency with multiple fires across the state, including Sonomoa County's Kincade Fire burning over 30,000 acres

• Oct 27 Wes Studi is the first Native American actor to receive an Oscar, an honorary award for career achievement
• Oct 28 Country of Georgia hit by a massive cyber attack affecting 2,000 websites, TV channels and government departments.
• Oct 28 EU agrees to another Brexit extension to January 31 2020
• Oct 28 Landslide after heavy rains in Bafoussam, Cameroon, buries at least 42 people
• Oct 29 1.5 million people without power in California as utility company turns power off to try and avoid sparking more wildfires
• Oct 29 Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigns after two weeks of nationwide protests and an economic crisis
• Oct 29 Rising seas could endanger 150 million people worldwide, three times more than previously thought, according study by Climate Central published in "Nature Communications"
• Oct 30 Kashmir officially loses their autonomous status, their flag and their constitution, as India brings it under federal control

• Oct 31 Fire destroys most of historic Shuri Castle, once seat of the Ryukyu Kingdom, on island of Okinawa, Japan
• Oct 31 Gas canister explodes on a train in Rahim Yar Khan, Pakaistan killing at least 70 and injuring 30
• Oct 31 Jihadist group Islamic State names Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurashi as its new leader after US special forces kill its former leader
• Oct 31 Joel Embiid is suspended from the NBA for two games without pay due to an altercation with Karl-Anthony Towns
• Oct 31 US House of Representatives votes to formalize impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump
• Nov 1 Former Texan congressman Beto O'Rourke ends his presidential campaign
• Nov 2 9th Rugby World Cup, Yokohama: South African fly-half Handré Pollard lands 6 penalties and 2 conversions as Springboks beat favourites England, 32-12 for their 3rd title
• Nov 3 Australian world #1 Ashleigh Barty beats Elina Svitolina of Ukraine 6–4, 6–3 to win the WTA Finals in Shenzhen, China, receives US$4.42m the biggest winner's prize in tennis history

• Nov 3 Delhi reaches worst pollution levels of the year, over 900 AQI, with authorities declaring public health emergency

• Nov 3 Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil producer Saudi Aramco, the world's most profitable company, announces its plans to go public
• Nov 4 Largest mass commutation in US history when 462 non-violent inmates freed from Oklahoma prisons as part of state prison reforms
• Nov 4 Major investigation finds unsafe lead levels in 11 Canadian cities between 2014 and 2018 mostly due to antiquated pipes
• Nov 4 Nine members of a US Mexican Mormon family, including six children, shot and killed in attack by criminal gang in Northern Mexico

• Nov 5 Chinese government set new rules for gaming for young people to try to curb gaming addiction, including maximum 90 mins a day
• Nov 6 17 people die in attack on a checkpoint by Islamic State militants on Tajikistan's border with Uzbekistan
• Nov 7 Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda, the "Terminator" is the to be convicted of sexual slavery by the International Criminal Court and is sentenced to 30 years in prison on 18 charges
• Nov 7 Humans 1st walked upright 12 million years ago (not 6 million as previously thought), according to study a new species of ape found in Bavaria, Germany, published in "Nature"

• Nov 7 Song lyrics have gotten sadder says researchers who studied 50 years of lyrics at University of Exeter, published in journal "Evolutionary Human Sciences"
• Nov 9 India’s Supreme Court rules in favor of Hindus over Muslims in dispute over who has right to holy site in city of Ayodhya
• Nov 9 Kartarpur corridor opens allowing Sikh worshippers from India to access holy site of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Pakistan without a visa

• Nov 9 Prominent Russian history professor Oleg Sokolov discovered with severed arms of his murder victim in his backpack when rescued from Moika River, St Petersburg
• Nov 9 Unprecedented 70 bush fires in New South Wales, Australia, destroys 100 homes killing three people with seven missing

• Nov 10 Death toll in demonstrations in Iraq reaches 319, with 15,000 injured since Oct 1 according to Iraqi human rights organization

• Nov 11 Arctic blast brings record low temperatures for November to the US Midwest including Kansas, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois
• Nov 11 More than 120 bush fires in Australia cause the country to declare state of emergency in two states with a catastrophic threat issued for Sydney region
• Nov 11 Transit of Mercury across the sun, closer than any other transit this century
• Nov 11 Violent day in Hong Kong as protests continue with person set alight and another shot amid general strike

• Nov 12 Disney launches its film and television streaming service Disney+
• Nov 12 Former Bolivian President Evo Morales takes asylum in Mexico
• Nov 12 Former Houston Astros MLB pitcher Mike Fiers reveals team secretly “stole signs” via camera from visiting teams 2015-17; comms between opposing pitchers & catchers intercepted and relayed to Astros batters
• Nov 12 Israeli forces kill senior commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip with Palestinian militants setting off retaliatory rockets at Israel

• Nov 13 Bolivian opposition senator Jeanine Áñez assumes interim presidency of Bolivia after Evo Morales' resignation
• Nov 13 First day of public testimony in Donald Trump's impeachment inquiry held in Washington, D.C.
• Nov 13 Rediscovered painting "Lucretia" by female baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi sells for $4.1 million to the Getty Museum at auction in Paris

• Nov 13 Venice hit by worse floods for 50 years, due to a very high tide with waves in St Mark's square, killing one resident

• Nov 15 Iran shuts down its internet for five days to suppress news of national protests against higher gas prices - beginning of the worst unrest for 40 years in the country
• Nov 15 Pakistan becomes the 1st country to introduce a vaccine against typhoid, targeting 10 million children
• Nov 16 500th anniversary of the founding of Havana, Cuba
• Nov 16 Britain's Prince Andrew refutes claims he had sex with 17 year-old connected to sex offender and friend Jeffery Epstein in BBC interview
• Nov 16 Samoa declares state of emergency over measles epidemic closing all schools after six deaths
• Nov 16 Sri Lankan Presidential election, won by former defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa

• Nov 18 Deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest worst since 2008, has lost 9,762 sq km (3,769 sq miles) of vegetation in 12 months according to country's Space Agency

• Nov 18 World wind speeds have risen, 3x faster since 2010 than previous decades of decline, according to Princeton study published in "Nature Climate Change"
• Nov 19 As many as 106 have died over five days in protests across 21 Iranian cities according to Amnesty International, just 12 deaths reported by the government
• Nov 19 EPL club Tottenham sacks high profile manager Mauricio Pochettino after disappointing start to season; replacement is higher profile ex-Chelsea and Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho

• Nov 19 More than 1,000 protesters detained by police after 3-day battle at Hong King Polytechnic University

• Nov 20 Britain's Prince Andrew announces he is stepping back from public duties after outcry from disastrous interview on his friendship with Jeffry Epstein
• Nov 20 Oxford Dictionaries word of the year is "climate emergency"
• Nov 20 Snakes lived with hind legs for 70 million years (Najash rionegrina), according to research from La Buitrera Palaeontological Area, Argentina, published in "Science Advances"
• Nov 20 US Ambassador Gordon Sondland testifies in impeachment inquiry that “We followed the president’s orders.” and that “everyone was in the loop” over Ukraine dealings
• Nov 21 22 killed in displacement camp in attack by Syrian government in Idlib province, Syria
• Nov 21 44% of Americans work in low-wage jobs with medium annual wage of just $18,000, with most aged 25 - 54 according to analysis by Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program

• Nov 21 First of a series of national strikes in Colombia against the government of President Iván Duque and proposed cuts to pensions
• Nov 21 WHO says Measles has killed more than 5,000 people in Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019, in world's largest and fastest-moving epidemic

• Nov 23 Sumatran rhino officially declared extinct in Malaysia after last known specimen, 25-year-old Iman, dies of cancer in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
• Nov 24 Data leaked from Chinese high-security Muslim Uighur security camps, housing 1 million people, show systematic brainwashing in western Xinjiang region

• Nov 24 Hong Kong pro-democracy candidates overwhelmingly win district council elections in strong rebuke to Hong Kong leaders
• Nov 24 New Zealand cricket batsman BJ Watling scores a marathon 205 off 473 balls to lead the home side to an innings and 65 run 1st Test victory over England at Mount Maunganui

• Nov 25 Chilean performance collective Lastesis first perform feminist anthem “Un violador en tu camino” (“A Rapist in Your Path”) outside the Supreme Court in Santiago, Chile
• Nov 25 First defamation case in Australia by a sitting MP won by Sarah Hanson-Green over Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm, after he made sexist slurs against her
• Nov 25 Louis Vuitton (LVMH) buys jeweler Tiffany & Co. for over $16 billion
• Nov 25 Priceless royal jewelry stolen from Dresden Green Vault, in Germany, from one of Europe's greatest treasure collections
• Nov 26 6.4 magnitude earthquake centered on Durres strikes Albania, with at least 51 killed and hundreds injured
• Nov 27 Ghana celebrates the "year of return" marking 300 years since 1st African slave sold in America, by granting 125 people citizenship in special ceremony
• Nov 27 US President Donald Trump signs two bills backing Hong Kong protesters, which check the territories autonomy and ban the sale of munitions to Hong Kong police, angering China
• Nov 28 European parliament declares a climate emergency
• Nov 28 Iraqi security forces open fire on protesters killing at least 25 in Nasiriya a day after the Iranian embassy in Najais is burnt down
• Nov 28 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, Las Vegas, Nevada: US retains trophy with an 11-8 win over Europe; MVP: Skyler Woodward (USA)
• Nov 28 Zimbabwe on the brink of man-made starvation according to the UN
• Nov 29 K-pop stars Jung Joon-young and Choi Jong-hoon sentenced to prison for gang-raping unconscious fans and distributing footage of it (Jung)
• Nov 29 Terrorist knife attack at Fishmongers Hall by London Bridge, kills two and injures three, attacker who was previously imprisoned for 2012 terror offence is shot dead
• Nov 29 Wood fragment believed to be from Jesus' manger returned to Bethlehem after 1400 years by Pope Francis
• Nov 30 Australian cricket batsman David Warner smashes 335 not out in the 2nd Test against Pakistan; second-highest Test score by an Australian (Matt Hayden 380); highest Test score at Adelaide Oval
• Nov 30 Gun battle between suspected cartel and security forces at Villa Unión city hall, northern Mexico, kills 21
• Nov 30 On the way to 36 in 2nd Test v Pakistan, Australian cricket batsman Steve Smith overtakes Don Bradman’s run-tally of 6,996 Test runs; becomes fastest batsman to 7000, in terms of innings (126)
• Dec 1 A newly developed apple that can last a year - the Cosmic Crisp goes on sale in Washington State, US
• Dec 1 British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins season-ending Abu Dhabi GP to claim his 6th F1 World Drivers C'ship by 87 points from teammate Valtteri Bottas; Mercedes' 6th straight Constructors title

• Dec 1 Iraqi parliament approves resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi after weeks of unrest and 400 deaths

• Dec 2 Hawaiian Carissa Moore earns her 4th World Surf League Women’s Championship Tour title with a third placing at the season-ending Maui Pro event at Honolua Bay
• Dec 2 Steve Bullock and Joe Sestak drop out of the US Presidential race
• Dec 3 70th anniversary of NATO marked by gathering in London of world leaders and reception by Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace

• Dec 3 World leaders discussing US President Donald Trump in unflattering terms at NATO reception caught on camera and goes viral
• Dec 4 58 migrants drown after a boat sinks off the coast of Mauritania, with 83 saved
• Dec 4 North American migratory birds getting smaller, their wings wider due to climate change according to study by University of Michigan published in journal "Ecology Letters"
• Dec 5 National strike in France; more than 800,000 people in 100 cities protest against proposed pension reform
• Dec 5 Saudi state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco raises a record $25.6 billion in its first public share offering, makes it the world's most valuable company at $1.7 trillion
• Dec 5 Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, announces articles of impeachment against US President Donald Trump will be drawn up for abuse of power
• Dec 5 WHO says 142,000 people died of the measles around the world in 2018, nearly 20,000 more than in 2017

• Dec 8 Fire in an illegal bag factory in Delhi, India, kills 43
• Dec 8 Polar explorers Mike Horn and Børge Ousland complete an 1,800 km (1,118 miles) journey on drifting ice in darkness in the Arctic
• Dec 8 Sanna Marin becomes Finland's youngest-ever Prime Minister at the age of 34
• Dec 8 Vienna State Opera stages its first show by a female composer in 150 years - Olga Neuwirth’s opera, “Orlando”
• Dec 9 Chilean Air Force plane lost on flight to Antarctica with presumed loss of 38 lives

• Dec 9 US officials "deliberately misled" the public on progress of the Afghanistan war, hid that it was a lost cause, according to The Washington Post analysis of the "Afghanistan Papers"
• Dec 9 White Island / Whakaari volcano, a tourist attraction in New Zealand, erupts killing 22
• Dec 9 World Anti-Doping Agency bans Russia from all major sporting events including 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2022 football World Cup in Qatar for manipulating laboratory data
• Dec 10 1st fully electric commercial plane, a retro-fitted seaplane, completes test flight in Vancouver
• Dec 10 Australian car maker Holden announces an end to Commodore production after 41 years

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