October 1, 2013, Release of Moby album Innocents
October 1, 2013, Release of NBA 2K14
October 1, 2013, United States federal government shutdown of 2013: U.S. President Barack Obama, via the White House Office of Management and Budget, issues a partial shutdown of government agencies after the House and Senate fail to come to an agreement on a spending bill to keep government operations running. (NBC News)
October 1, 2013, Release of NBA 2K14
October 1, 2013, United States federal government shutdown of 2013: U.S. President Barack Obama, via the White House Office of Management and Budget, issues a partial shutdown of government agencies after the House and Senate fail to come to an agreement on a spending bill to keep government operations running. (NBC News)
October 1, 2013,
October 1, 2013,
October 1, 2013,
October 1, 2013,
October 1, 2013,
October 1, 2013,
October 2, 2013, Series Premiere of Ironside
October 2, 2013, Series Premiere of Super Fun Night
October 2, 2013, American author Tom Clancy, best known for his military thriller novels, dies at the age of 66. (The New York Times)
October 2, 2013, Series Premiere of Super Fun Night
October 2, 2013, American author Tom Clancy, best known for his military thriller novels, dies at the age of 66. (The New York Times)
October 2, 2013, The jury in the Michael Jackson Estate vs. AEG Live court case finds AEG Live not guilty of negligence in hiring musician Michael Jackson's physician Conrad Murray. Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in 2011. (Sky News)
October 2, 2013, Law enforcement in the U.S. shuts down "Silk Road," an internet marketplace for various illegal activities including the illicit drug trade, and arrests its alleged principal, Ross Ulbricht. (Reuters)
October 3, 2013, Series Premiere of Welcome to The Family
October 3, 2013, Series Premiere of The Millers
October 3, 2013, Series Premiere of The Originals
October 3, 2013, Season 3 Premiere of Scandal
October 3, 2013, Season 5 Premiere of The Vampire Diaries
October 3, 2013,
October 3, 2013,
October 3, 2013, A woman is fatally shot by police after striking a barrier at a White House security checkpoint followed by a car chase. (BBC)
October 3, 2013, The Gambia is to withdraw from the Commonwealth, 48 years after joining the 54-member grouping, which includes the United Kingdom and most of its former colonies. (Daily Telegraph)
October 4, 2013, Release of Gravity
October 4, 2013, Release of A.C.O.D
October 4, 2013, Release of Runner, Runner
October 4, 2013, Release of Grace Unplugged
October 4, 2013, Release of Grace Unplugged
October 4, 2013, Release of Miley Cyrus album Bangerz
October 4, 2013, Release of Korn album Paradigm Shift
October 4, 2013, US forces initiate two major raids against terror in Africa. (FOX News)
October 4, 2013, US forces initiate two major raids against terror in Africa. (FOX News)
October 4, 2013,
October 4, 2013,
October 4, 2013, A man sets himself on fire at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Though he was breathing, conscious, and talking when airlifted, he died later that night at MedStar Washington Hospital Center due to the extensive severe gas burns to his face and arms. A motive was unclear. (Huffington Post)
October 4, 2013, A man sets himself on fire at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Though he was breathing, conscious, and talking when airlifted, he died later that night at MedStar Washington Hospital Center due to the extensive severe gas burns to his face and arms. A motive was unclear. (Huffington Post)
October 5, 2013, Prince Harry of Wales arrives in Sydney, Australia, to celebrate 100 years of the Royal Australian Navy. (ABC News)
October 6, 2013, Series Premiere of Witches of East End
October 6, 2013, Islamist protests in Egypt (July 2013–present): At least 53 people are killed during clashes between supporters and opponents of former president Mohamed Morsi on the 40th anniversary of Egypt's crossing of the Suez Canal in 1973. (Reuters)
October 7, 2013, Season 2 Premiere of Beauty and The Beast
October 6, 2013, Islamist protests in Egypt (July 2013–present): At least 53 people are killed during clashes between supporters and opponents of former president Mohamed Morsi on the 40th anniversary of Egypt's crossing of the Suez Canal in 1973. (Reuters)
October 7, 2013, Season 2 Premiere of Beauty and The Beast
October 7, 2013,
October 7, 2013, Aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution
Six Egyptian soldiers are killed in an ambush west of Ismaïlia, close to the Suez Canal. In the South Sinai, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 55 others after an attack against security buildings in the provincial capital El-Tor. (Reuters)
October 7, 2013, American scientists James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German scientist Thomas C. Südhof win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on transport systems in cells. (Al Jazeera)
October 8, 2013, Release of The Monkeys Paw
October 8, 2013, Season 9 Premiere of Supernatural
October 8, 2013, Release of Beyond: Two Souls
October 8, 2013, Theoretical physicists, Briton Peter Higgs and Belgian François Englert, win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the origin of the mass of subatomic particles. (The Guardian)
October 9, 2013, Series Premiere of The Tomorrow People
October 8, 2013, Season 9 Premiere of Supernatural
October 8, 2013, Release of Beyond: Two Souls
October 8, 2013, Theoretical physicists, Briton Peter Higgs and Belgian François Englert, win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the origin of the mass of subatomic particles. (The Guardian)
October 9, 2013, Series Premiere of The Tomorrow People
October 9, 2013,
October 9, 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama nominates Janet Yellen to become the next chair of the Federal Reserve after Ben Bernanke leaves that office. (Reuters)
October 9, 2013, The United States government suspends military and cash aid to Egypt worth hundreds of millions of dollars. (CNN)
October 9, 2013, Andrea Sanderlin, the Scarsdale "Pot Mom", admits to running a multimillion dollar marijuana operation. (NY Daily News)
October 9, 2013, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina successfully undergoes surgery to remove a subdural hematoma. Presidential duties will be carried out by Vice President Amado Boudou for the duration of Kirchner's estimated month-long recovery. (BBC)
October 9, 2013, Juno flies by Earth on its way to orbit Jupiter, but suffers a glitch during the fly-by that puts it in safe mode. (Space.com)
October 10, 2013, Series Premiere of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
October 10, 2013,
October 10, 2013, Former Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick is sentenced to 28 years in prison for racketeering, conspiracy, fraud, and tax crimes. (MSN)
October 10, 2013, The BBC announce the discovery of nine missing episodes of Doctor Who, located in Africa, completing the previously missing or partially-missing serials The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear starring Patrick Troughton. (BBC)
October 10, 2013, Scott Carpenter, Mercury 7 Astronaut and second American to orbit the earth dies at 88 following complications from a stroke.(Fox News)
October 11, 2013, Release of Captain Phillips
October 11, 2013, Release of Machete Kills
October 11, 2013, Release of Romeo and Juliet
October 11, 2013, Cyclone Phailin: India's Odisha and Andhra Pradesh prepare for storm. (BBC)
October 11, 2013, The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the Nobel Peace Prize. (BBC)
October 11, 2013, The UK government publishes a draft royal charter
aimed at underpinning self-regulation of the the British press
following an agreement on the issue by the country's three main
political parties. However, the proposals are greeted with concerns
about press freedom by the industry. (BBC)
October 12, 2013, Cyclone Phailin is expected to make landfall on the east coast of India today. (AFP via Australia Network)
October 12, 2013,
October 12, 2013,
October 13, 2013,
October 13, 2013, Indian authorities commence rescue efforts in the aftermath of Cyclone Phailin, with initial reports of at least 20 casualties and widespread damage along the landfall area. (First Post)
October 14, 2013, Release of Pearl Jam album Lightning
October 13, 2013, Indian authorities commence rescue efforts in the aftermath of Cyclone Phailin, with initial reports of at least 20 casualties and widespread damage along the landfall area. (First Post)
October 14, 2013, Release of Pearl Jam album Lightning
October 14, 2013,
October 14, 2013, The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences goes to three Americans, in connection with their work in asset prices: Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller. (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
October 14, 2013, The death toll from Cyclone Phailin rises to at least 18 in India as it dissipates. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
October 14, 2013, A dry ice bomb explodes in an employee restroom at Los Angeles International Airport. Nobody was injured, and no arrests were made. Terminal 2 was briefly shut down and evacuated. It was the second incident of its kind to have occurred at the airport in two days. (CNN)
October 14, 2013, The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences goes to three Americans, in connection with their work in asset prices: Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller. (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
October 14, 2013, The death toll from Cyclone Phailin rises to at least 18 in India as it dissipates. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
October 14, 2013, A dry ice bomb explodes in an employee restroom at Los Angeles International Airport. Nobody was injured, and no arrests were made. Terminal 2 was briefly shut down and evacuated. It was the second incident of its kind to have occurred at the airport in two days. (CNN)
October 15, 2013, New Zealand author Eleanor Catton wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize for her work "The Luminaries". (AFP via Yahoo News Australia)
October 15, 2013, United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013: International credit rating group Fitch Ratings places the United States under a "Rating watch negative" in response to the looming financial crisis. (Reuters)
October 15, 2013, Glenn Greenwald, a reporter with The Guardian who has published information provided him by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, is leaving the British newspaper to join a new journalistic enterprise to be bankrolled by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay. (Reuters)
October 15, 2013, 2013 Bohol earthquake: A magnitude 7.2 earthquake is reported in the Philippines near the town of Balilihan in Bohol province resulting in at least 74 deaths. (Reuters)
October 15, 2013, Typhoon Nari hits central Vietnam with over 122,000 people being evacuated. (Reuters)
October 15, 2013, United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013: International credit rating group Fitch Ratings places the United States under a "Rating watch negative" in response to the looming financial crisis. (Reuters)
October 15, 2013, Glenn Greenwald, a reporter with The Guardian who has published information provided him by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, is leaving the British newspaper to join a new journalistic enterprise to be bankrolled by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay. (Reuters)
October 15, 2013, 2013 Bohol earthquake: A magnitude 7.2 earthquake is reported in the Philippines near the town of Balilihan in Bohol province resulting in at least 74 deaths. (Reuters)
October 15, 2013, Typhoon Nari hits central Vietnam with over 122,000 people being evacuated. (Reuters)
October 16, 2013, United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013:
The United States Senate reaches a bipartisan deal to avoid default and end the 16-day US government shutdown. The House passes the legislation by 285–144. The bill now goes to the president, who is expected to sign it. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
October 16, 2013, Typhoon Wipha hits Japan resulting in at least 14 deaths. (The Australian)
October 16, 2013, Divers in Russia recover a 570kg (1,255lb) portion of the Chelyabinsk meteor that landed on February 15 2013. It is one of the largest meteorite fragments found to date. (BBC)
October 17, 2013, Series Premiere of Reign
October 16, 2013, Typhoon Wipha hits Japan resulting in at least 14 deaths. (The Australian)
October 16, 2013, Divers in Russia recover a 570kg (1,255lb) portion of the Chelyabinsk meteor that landed on February 15 2013. It is one of the largest meteorite fragments found to date. (BBC)
October 17, 2013, Series Premiere of Reign
October 17, 2013, President of the United States Barack Obama signs a bipartisan deal approved by Congress to end the Government shutdown and the debt ceiling crisis. (The Hill)
October 17, 2013,
October 17, 2013,
October 17, 2013,
October 17, 2013, Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia are elected to the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term, starting on January 1, 2014. (Reuters)
October 25, 2013, Series Premiere of Dracula
October 25, 2013, Season 2 Premiere of The Carrie Diaries
October 25, 2013, Season 3 Premiere of Grimm
October 25, 2013, Release of Kelly Clarkson album Wrapped in Red
October 25, 2013, Release of Batman Arkham Origins
October 25, 2013, Japan's emergency agencies declare a tsunami warning after an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 strikes off the east coast. (AP via News24)
October 25, 2013, In a joint statement, leaders of the European Union say that recent claims about the United States spying on European leaders, such as Germany's Angela Merkel and citizens, "could prejudice co-operation in intelligence gathering". (BBC)
October 25, 2013, The complete nuclear genome of a Siberian boy who died 24,000 years ago suggests that about a third of the ancestry of today's Native Americans can be traced to Western Eurasia, with only two-thirds coming from Eastern Asia. (Science Magazine/AAAS)
October 26, 2013, 2013 World Series, Game 3 ends on a controversial interference call, giving the Cardinals a 2-1 series lead over the Red Soxs.
(NY Times)
October 26, 2013,
October 26, 2013,
October 26, 2013,
October 27, 2013, The United Kingdom braces itself for the St Jude storm, the worst since 1987, which is due to make landfall tonight. (BBC)
October 27, 2013, Lou Reed, lead singer of the band The Velvet Underground, dies at the age of 71
October 28, 2013, Release of Arcade Fire album Reflektor
October 28, 2013,
October 28, 2013, Dr Conrad Murray is released from prison in the American city of Los Angeles for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. (ABC News)
October 28, 2013, Three new species of animals are discovered (a leaf-tailed gecko, a golden-coloured skink, and a boulder-dwelling frog) in the Cape York Peninsula of the Australian state of Queensland. (news.com.au)
October 29, 2013, Release of Assassins Creed: Black Flag
October 29, 2013, Release of Battlefield 4
October 29, 2013, Release of WWE2K14
October 29, 2013,
October 29, 2013, St Jude storm: At least 13 people are confirmed dead after the storm hits northern Europe. (ABC News Australia)
October 29, 2013, Marilyn Tavenner, the Administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, becomes the first Obama administration official to apologise for the troubled roll out of the healthcare.gov website as part of the Affordable Care Act or "Obamacare" system. (CNN)
October 30, 2013, In baseball, the Boston Red Sox win the 2013 World Series defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in game 6 with a score of 6-1. This is the first series to be won in Boston by the Red Sox since 1918. (ABC News)
October 31, 2013,
October 17, 2013,
October 17, 2013,
October 17, 2013,
October 17, 2013, Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia are elected to the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term, starting on January 1, 2014. (Reuters)
October 18, 2013, Release of 12 years a Slave
October 18, 2013, Science publishes an article by Lordkipanidze et al about "the world's first completely preserved adult hominid skull" recently unearthed at Dmanisi, Georgia, which may suggest that several known species of human ancestor were part of a single evolving lineage of early Homo erectus. (The Guardian)
October 18, 2013, Release of Carrie
October 18, 2013, Release of Escape Plan
October 18, 2013, Release of I'm in Love with a Church Girl
October 18, 2013, Release of I'm in Love with a Church Girl
October 18, 2013, Release of Fifth Estate
October 18, 2013, Release of All is Lost
October 18, 2013, Release of Katy Perry album Prism
October 19, 2013, Reuters reports that the United States Department of Justice and JPMorgan Chase
have reached a tentative $13 billion settlement on the issue of selling
bad mortgage loans to investors, the practice that contributed to Subprime mortgage crisis. (Reuters)
October 21, 2013,
October 21, 2013, Laurent Fabius, the Foreign Minister of France, summons the United States ambassador over allegations of US spying on millions of French phone calls reported in Le Monde. (France 24)
October 21, 2013, Sparks Middle School shooting. A school shooting kills 2 and injures 2 others at Sparks Middle School in Sparks, Nevada, U.S. (AP via San Francisco Chronicle)
October 21, 2013, New Jersey becomes the 14th U.S. state to allow same-sex marriages. (NBC New York)
October 22, 2013, Series Premiere of Ravenswood
October 22, 2013, Series Premiere of Ravenswood
October 22, 2013,
October 22, 2013, Apple announces the introduction of iPad Air and the availability of the newest version of OS X, Mavericks. (CNN)
October 22, 2013, Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian territory to legalize same-sex marriage while the Government of Australia launches a legal challenge in the High Court. (News.com.au)
October 23, 2013,
October 22, 2013, Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian territory to legalize same-sex marriage while the Government of Australia launches a legal challenge in the High Court. (News.com.au)
October 23, 2013,
October 23, 2013,
October 23, 2013, Aftermath of the 2011 Tunisian revolution: Thousands of Tunisian protesters take to the streets calling for the Islamist government led by the Ennahda Movement to step down hours before crisis talks between the government and opposition leaders. (Reuters)
October 23, 2013, A 14 year old student from Danvers, Massachusetts is accused of killing his math teacher at Danvers High School and dumping the body in the woods. (ABC)
October 24, 2013, Germany summons the United States Ambassador over claims that the US monitored Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel's mobile phone. (BBC)
October 24, 2013,
October 24, 2013,
October 25, 2013, Release of Ender's Game
October 24, 2013,
October 25, 2013, Release of Ender's Game
October 25, 2013, Release of Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
October 25, 2013, Release of The Counselor
October 25, 2013, Series Premiere of Dracula
October 25, 2013, Season 3 Premiere of Grimm
October 25, 2013, Release of Kelly Clarkson album Wrapped in Red
October 25, 2013, Release of Batman Arkham Origins
October 25, 2013, Japan's emergency agencies declare a tsunami warning after an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 strikes off the east coast. (AP via News24)
October 25, 2013, In a joint statement, leaders of the European Union say that recent claims about the United States spying on European leaders, such as Germany's Angela Merkel and citizens, "could prejudice co-operation in intelligence gathering". (BBC)
October 25, 2013, The complete nuclear genome of a Siberian boy who died 24,000 years ago suggests that about a third of the ancestry of today's Native Americans can be traced to Western Eurasia, with only two-thirds coming from Eastern Asia. (Science Magazine/AAAS)
October 26, 2013, 2013 World Series, Game 3 ends on a controversial interference call, giving the Cardinals a 2-1 series lead over the Red Soxs.
(NY Times)
October 26, 2013,
October 26, 2013,
October 26, 2013,
October 27, 2013, The United Kingdom braces itself for the St Jude storm, the worst since 1987, which is due to make landfall tonight. (BBC)
October 27, 2013, Lou Reed, lead singer of the band The Velvet Underground, dies at the age of 71
October 28, 2013, Release of Arcade Fire album Reflektor
October 28, 2013,
October 28, 2013, Dr Conrad Murray is released from prison in the American city of Los Angeles for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. (ABC News)
October 28, 2013, Three new species of animals are discovered (a leaf-tailed gecko, a golden-coloured skink, and a boulder-dwelling frog) in the Cape York Peninsula of the Australian state of Queensland. (news.com.au)
October 29, 2013, Release of Assassins Creed: Black Flag
October 29, 2013, Release of Battlefield 4
October 29, 2013, Release of WWE2K14
October 29, 2013,
October 29, 2013, St Jude storm: At least 13 people are confirmed dead after the storm hits northern Europe. (ABC News Australia)
October 29, 2013, Marilyn Tavenner, the Administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, becomes the first Obama administration official to apologise for the troubled roll out of the healthcare.gov website as part of the Affordable Care Act or "Obamacare" system. (CNN)
October 30, 2013, In baseball, the Boston Red Sox win the 2013 World Series defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in game 6 with a score of 6-1. This is the first series to be won in Boston by the Red Sox since 1918. (ABC News)
October 31, 2013,
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