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What Happened in October — Daily History Calendar
October has 31 days and about 1221 recorded events. Tap any date to open its page.
- 1 October 1 Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, marking the fifth Israeli invasion of Lebanon since 1978. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 2 October 2 2 people are killed and at least 4 others injured in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester, UK, during Yom Kippur. 32 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 3 October 3 Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 4 October 4 Joint Nigerien-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 5 October 5 Windows 11 is released to the general public. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 6 October 6 The 2025 Alberta teachers' strike begins, leaving approximately 51,000 teachers off-work, impacting about 730,000 Albertan students. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 7 October 7 Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launch an attack into Israel, which results in the deaths of around 1,200, mostly civilians, and the taking of 251 hostages, including civilians and soldiers. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 8 October 8 Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijan twice deliberately targets the Church of the Holy Savior Ghazanchetsots of Shusha. 36 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 9 October 9 Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane, causing US$34.3 billion in damage only two weeks after Hurricane Helene impacted the state. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 10 October 10 Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 11 October 11 Soyuz MS-10, launching an intended crew for the ISS, suffers an in-flight abort. The crew lands safely. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 12 October 12 2022 Bratislava shooting occurs outside a gay bar, killing 3 (including the perpetrator) and injuring one. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 13 October 13 Kenyan Brigid Kosgei sets a new women's world record with a time of 2:14:04 at the 2019 Chicago Marathon. 34 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 14 October 14 A coup d'état successfully overthrows Malagasy president Andry Rajoelina. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 15 October 15 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 16 October 16 Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 17 October 17 An explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza kills hundreds of Palestinians during the Gaza war. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 18 October 18 NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 19 October 19 Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are successfully stolen during a heist on the Louvre Museum in Paris. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 20 October 20 Liz Truss steps down as British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party amid the country's political crisis, serving for the least time of any British Prime Minister (49 days). 39 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 21 October 21 A shooting occurs on the set of the film Rust, in which actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded, killing the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injuring director Joel Souza. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 22 October 22 Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 23 October 23 Xi Jinping is elected as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party by the Central Committee, beginning a third term of the paramount leader of China. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 24 October 24 A 14 year old resident from Bosanska Krupa, Bosnia and Herzegovina initiated a terrorist attack on the local police station, killing one police officer and injuring another. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 25 October 25 Vipul Patel performed the first telesurgery between two United States hospitals, AdventHealth Celebration and AdventHealth Minneola. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 26 October 26 A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in South Asia, killing 399 people and leaving 2,536 people injured. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 27 October 27 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 28 October 28 Two high-speed trains collide in Los Yébenes, south of Madrid, Spain, killing at least 74 passengers and injuring nearly 200. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 29 October 29 At least 156 die at a crowd crush during a Halloween celebration in Itaewon district, Seoul, South Korea. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 30 October 30 First rescue of a prisoner during the Israeli invasion of Gaza. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 31 October 31 Berlin Brandenburg Airport opens its doors after nearly 10 years of delays due to construction issues and project corruption. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25