October 1, 2016, The Obama administration through the United States Department of Commerce transfers oversight of the technical management of the Internet by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to an international consortium of stakeholders. (Reuters)
October 1, 2016, Volkswagen agrees to pay its U.S. dealers up to US$1.2 billion to compensate them for their losses resulting from the company's emissions cheating scandal. (The Los Angeles Times)
October 2, 2016, Westworld Series Premiere
October 2, 2016, Madam Secretary Season 3 Premiere
October 2, 2016, Elementary Season 5 Premiere
October 2, 2016, Hurricane Matthew, at Category 4 strength with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (240 km/h), temporarily stalls as it heads towards Jamaica and Haiti. Weather forecasters expect tropical storm conditions today with landfall tomorrow. Further, they expect rainfall of 20 inches, with up to 40 inches in some parts of southern Haiti. (BBC)
October 2, 2016, Vin Scully, broadcaster for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers since 1950, calls his final game. (Major League Baseball)
October 2, 2016, The Atlanta Braves play their final game at Turner Field. They now move to the new SunTrust Park for the 2017 season. (AP via ESPN)
October 3, 2016, Timeless Series Premiere
October 3, 2016, Conviction Series Premiere
October 3, 2016, Scorpion Season 3 Premiere
October 3, 2016, Bass Pro Shops acquires Cabela's for $5.5 billion, combining two retailers for outdoor enthusiasts. (Reuters)
October 3, 2016, Typhoon Chaba, now a super typhoon with winds of 145 knots (165 mph), heads for Japan's southern islands with storm warnings of torrential rain followed by mudslides and flooding. (AAP via SBS)
October 3, 2016, Heavy rains from Hurricane Matthew's outer bands drench Haiti and Jamaica, killing a Haitian fisherman. The Category 4 storm, with 140 mph ((220 km/h) maximum sustained winds), is heading towards western Haiti, eastern Cuba, and the southeastern and central Bahamas. (CBS News)
October 4, 2016, No Tomorrow Series Premiere
October 4, 2016, The Flash Season 3 Premiere
October 4, 2016, Weather forecasters track Hurricane Matthew as it makes landfall in Haiti and issue hurricane warnings for Cuba and the Bahamas. (The National Hurricane Center)
October 4, 2016, The U.S. Supreme Court declines to rehear President Barack Obama's 2014 plan (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans) to spare from deportation millions of immigrants in the country illegally, a case in which the justices split 4–4 in June. The justices' June 23 decision (United States v. Texas) is final. (Reuters)
October 4, 2016, Weather forecasters track Hurricane Matthew as it heads towards Haiti and they expect it to make landfall later today. Further, they issue hurricane warnings for Cuba and the Bahamas. (The National Hurricane Center)
October 4, 2016, British scientists, David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and John M. Kosterlitz, are awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries about strange forms of matter. (BBC)
October 5, 2016, Arrow Season 5 Premiere
October 5, 2016, Hurricane Matthew kills at least 26 people on the island of Hispaniola; 22 in Haiti and four more in the Dominican Republic. The U.S. National Hurricane Center predicts the storm, currently a Category 3 with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph (185 km/h), will strengthen as it moves across the Bahamas tonight and tomorrow, and be near the east coast of Florida by tomorrow evening. (Reuters)
October 5, 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte tells U.S. President Barack Obama to "go to hell" after the United States refuses to sell some weapons to his country, while also acknowledging the cooperation of Russia andChina. (Reuters)
October 5, 2016, Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, and the Governor of Indiana Mike Pence hold the first and only vice-presidential debate of the 2016 presidential election at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. (RTE)
October 5, 2016, The United States Department of Justice charges a top secret security clearance National Security Agency contractor, Harold Thomas Martin III, with theft of government property and unauthorised removal of "highly classified" materials. (BBC)
October 5, 2016, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Scotsman Sir Fraser Stoddart, and Dutchman Ben Feringa win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research into nanotechnology. " (BBC)
October 5, 2016, Aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin tests its New Shepard reusable launch system in Van Horn, Texas. (BBC)
October 6, 2016, Hurricane Matthew moves towards the United States with hundreds of thousands of people being evacuated from the states of Florida and South Carolina. (USA Today)
October 7, 2016, Release of The Girl on the Train
October 7, 2016, Release of Birth of a Nation
October 7, 2016, Release of Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
October 7, 2016, Release of Voyage of Time
October 7, 2016, Hurricane Matthew hits the southeastern United States as the death toll in Haiti rises to at least 877. (Reuters)
October 7, 2016, The Obama administration formally accuses the Russian government of cyber attacks against the U.S. Democratic Party in influencing presidential election. (Reuters)
October 7, 2016, A video shows U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump having a lewd conversation about women in 2005. (The Washington Post)
October 7, 2016, WikiLeaks releases over 2000 emails from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman and former Counselor to the President John Podesta. (Fox News)
October 8, 2016, Hurricane Matthew, responsible for killing 13 people and knocking out power to 2.2 million households and businesses in the Southeastern United States, is now a Category 1 hurricane (75 mph;120 km/h winds) approaching the North Carolina coast. (Reuters)
October 8, 2016, A gunman shoots three police officers in Palm Springs, California, leaving two dead and one injured. (The Los Angeles Times)
October 9, 2016, Divorce Series Premiere
October 9, 2016, Pope Francis announces the upcoming creation of 17 new Cardinals; 13 of them will be under the age of 80 and thus able to vote in a future papal conclave to select the new Pope. (The Vatican Information Service)
October 9, 2016, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump hold the second presidential debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential election at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in a "town meeting" format. (CBS News)
October 10, 2016, Supergirl Season 2 Premiere
October 10, 2016, The death toll in the United States from Hurricane Matthew rises to 27 with at least five people still missing in North Carolina. Governor Pat McCrory warns that the state's swollen rivers are still rising with flooding continuing to pose threats to life and property this week. The storm, downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone yesterday, moves away from the U.S. coastline on an east-northeast track. (The Washington Post)
October 11, 2016, Channel Zero Series Premiere
October 11, 2016, American Housewife Series Premiere
October 11, 2016, The Real O'neals Season 2 Premiere
October 11, 2016, Fresh Off The Boat Season 3 Premiere
October 11, 2016, Chicago Fire Season 5 Premiere
October 11, 2016, The Middle Season 8 Premiere
October 11, 2016,
October 11, 2016, Samsung announces an end of production of the Galaxy Note 7 after continued problems with its battery. (The Verge)
October 11, 2016, The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Oklahoma City reports that an unarmed black man, Terence Crutcher, shot dead on September 16, by a white police officer, Betty Jo Shelby, had acute PCP intoxication. Authorities charged her with first-degree manslaughter. (AP via Fox News)
October 11, 2016, Astronomers announce that 2014 UZ224 is the third most distant Solar System object known from our Sun, currently over 90 times the Earth's distance from the Sun (90.8 AU or 8.44 billion miles), after Eris (96.2 AU) and V774104 (~103 AU). (The International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center)
October 12, 2016, American popstar Janet Jackson announces that she is pregnant with her first child at the age of 50. (CNN)
October 12, 2016, John Stumpf resigns as CEO and chairman of Wells Fargo amid a scandal over its sales practices. (BBC)
October 13, 2016, DC Legends of Tomorrow Season 2 Premiere
October 13, 2016, Supernatural Season 12 Premiere
October 13, 2016, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. (The Canberra Times)
October 13, 2016, UNESCO declares the Western Wall an "Islamic site" and refrains from mentioning its connection to Jewish culture. Over half the voting countries chose to abstain. (The International Business Times)
October 13, 2016, Hurricane Nicole impacts Bermuda at Category 3 strength, making it the strongest hurricane to effect the British Overseas Territory since Hurricane Fabian in 2003. (The Weather Channel)
October 13, 2016, The death toll in North Carolina rises to 22 as flood waters continue to rise. Governor Pat McCrory says places that had a foot of water in the morning, were under 12 feet of water. (Reuters)
October 13, 2016, The King of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej dies at the age of 88. He was the world's longest currently serving monarch. (The Canberra Times)
October 14, 2016, Release of The Accountant
October 14, 2016, Release of Kevin Hart: What Now?
October 14, 2016, Release of Max Steel
October 14, 2016, Goliath Series Premiere
October 14, 2016, Surgeons separate craniopagus conjoined twin boys in New York. (BBC)
October 14, 2016, President Barack Obama issues an executive order on Cuba lifting monetary limits on the amount of Cuban products, including cigars and rum, which Americans can bring back for personal use, allowing Cubans and Americans to engage in joint medical research, and allowing Cubans to buy certain U.S. consumer goods online. (The New York Times)
October 15, 2016, Google introduces a so-called "fact checking" feature on its news aggregate service to combat alleged political bias. (The Los Angeles Times)
October 16, 2016, Eyewitness Series Premiere
October 16, 2016, Insecure Series Premiere
October 16, 2016, Berlin Station Series Premiere
October 16, 2016, Graves Series Premiere
October 16, 2016, The Simpsons, the longest-running American, prime time, scripted television series, airs its 600th episode. (CNN)
October 16, 2016, Pope Francis declares seven new saints. {Vatican Radio)
October 16, 2016, An arsonist firebombs a Republican Party office in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and leaves a graffiti message reading, "Nazi Republicans get out of town or else." (CNN)
October 16, 2016, The European Space Agency-Roscosmos operated Schiaparelli EDM lander successfully separates from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, beginning a three-day descent to the surface of Mars. (Reuters)
October 17, 2016,
October 17, 2016, Circuit Court Judge Debra Nelson in Seminole County, Florida, sentences Matthew Apperson, convicted by a jury last month of second-degree attempted murder, to 20 years in prison for shooting at George Zimmerman, who had shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in February 2012. (Reuters)
October 17, 2016, American conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe
releases a series of videos allegedly showing conversations with, among
others, Scott Foval, the former national field director of Americans
United for Change, speaking about his hiring of people to sabotage
rallies for Donald Trump by staging fights in them in a process Foval called "bird dogging". (Salon)
October 18, 2016,
October 19, 2016, The European Space Agency fails to contact its Schiaparelli lander during its descent through the atmosphere of the planet Mars. (The Guardian)
October 19, 2016,October 19, 2016, NASA's Juno probe, in orbit around Jupiter, enters safe mode. (The Guardian)
October 19, 2016, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump meet for the third presidential debate of the 2016 U.S. election at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. (The Telegraph)
October 19, 2016, The Cleveland Indians defeat the Toronto Blue Jays and win the American League Championship Series 4–1, advancing to the World Series for the first time since 1997. Major League Baseball names Cleveland reliever Andrew Miller the series Most Valuable Player. (AP via ESPN)
October 20, 2016, Typhoon Haima, the second tropical cyclone
to hit the Philippines in less than a week, kills at least seven people
and causes flooding, landslides, and power outages before heading out
to sea. (AP via The New York Times)
October 20, 2016, Following his October 5 arrest, U.S. federal prosecutors in Baltimore charge Harold T. Martin III, a former National Security Agency contractor, for violating the Espionage Act,
specifically, with felony theft of government property. Prosecutors
state that, over a 20-year time period, Martin stole at least 50 terabytes of data and "six full bankers boxes" of classified and other documents. The prosecutors state that Martin had an “arsenal” of weapons in his home. (The Washington Post)
October 20, 2016, The journal Scientific Reports publishes research from a team, led by Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum's Stephen Poropat, reporting the discovery of a new Australian dinosaur species, Savannasaurus elliottorum, using fossils first found in 2005 at Winton, Queensland, Australia. (The Verge)
October 21, 2016, Release of Jack Reacher: Never Go Home
October 21, 2016, Release of Boo! A Madea Halloween
October 21, 2016, Release of Keeping Up with the Joneses
October 21, 2016, Release of Ouija: Origin of Evil
October 21, 2016, Release of Moonlight
October 21, 2016, Release of American Pastoral
October 21, 2016, Falling Water Series Premiere
October 21, 2016, Black Mirror Season 3 Premiere
October 21, 2016, The Vampire Diaries Season 8 Premiere
October 21, 2016, A series of cyberattacks utilizing distributed denial-of-service attacks, targeting networks operated by DNS provider Dyn,
makes major Internet platforms and services unavailable to large swaths
of users in Europe and North America. Affected companies include Amazon, Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, PayPal, Netflix, and Airbnb. (The Wall Street Journal)
October 21, 2016,
October 21, 2016, A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Tottori Prefecture in western Japan. Local media report that there are 14 injuries in Kurayoshi. Tottori is Japan's least populous prefecture. (Bloomberg)
October 21, 2016, The Tennessee Valley Authority completes the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, the first U.S. nuclear reactor to enter commercial operation in 20 years. (CNN)
October 22, 2016, Pitch Series Premiere
October 22, 2016, Notorious Series Premiere
October 22, 2016, The Chicago Cubs defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers and win the National League Championship Series 4–2, advancing to the World Series for the first time since 1945. (AP via ESPN)
October 22, 2016, AT&T reportedly agrees in principle to buy Time Warner for about $85 billion. (Reuters)
October 22, 2016, Security analysts state that the October 21 denial-of-service attacks on Internet performance management company Dyn was perpetrated using Mirai malware-created botnets that used consumer internet of things (IoT) smart devices, such as digital video recorders, cable set-top boxes, routers, etc. Technology experts warn that the security included with IoT is weak, or sometimes even nonexistent. (USA Today)
October 23, 2016, A collision between a tour bus and a tractor-trailer kills at least 13 people, and injures 31 others in Desert Hot Springs, California, United States. (The Los Angeles Times)
October 24, 2016, Travelers Series Premiere
October 24, 2016, Man With a Plan Series Premiere
October 24, 2016, Jane The Virgin Season 3 Premiere
October 24, 2016, U.S. discount brokerage TD Ameritrade agrees to buy Scottrade for $2.7 billion. (Reuters)
October 25, 2016, Paul Beatty becomes the first American author to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout. (ABC)
October 25, 2016, The Catholic Church announces that cremated remains must be kept in consecrated land, rather than scattered about or kept at home. The Church first permitted cremation in 1963, but still strongly favours burial. (BBC)
October 26, 2016, A series of earthquakes strikes a region of Central Italy already impacted by a major quake in August. Many buildings are damaged or destroyed across several towns. (CNN)
October 27, 2016, Mars Mimi-Series Premiere
October 27, 2016, The Great Indoors Series Premiere
October 27, 2016, Pure Genius Series Premiere
October 27, 2016, Governor Mike Pence's campaign plane skids off the runway at LaGuardia Airport with no injuries reported. The runway is said to have sustained damage causing the closure of the airport, a planned fundraiser was also canceled. (Reuters)
October 27, 2016, Seven members of the militia who occupied the wildlife refuge, including the leader Ammon Bundy, was acquitted of all federal charges related to the takeover. (New York Times)
October 27, 2016, NASA announces the return of the final piece of data collected during New Horizons' flyby of Pluto in July 2015. The data, taking about five hours at light speed to travel across 3.4 billion miles (5.5 billion kilometers), arrived at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory on the morning of October 25. (NASA)
October 27, 2016, Japan's Prince Mikasa, the oldest member of the Imperial Family, dies at the age of 100. (Reuters)
October 28, 2016, James Comey informs Congress that "the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear pertinent to the investigation." He says the FBI has not yet assessed the importance or significance of these emails. (CNN)
-Law enforcement officials say the emails in question were found during the course of an investigation into illicit texts sent to a fifteen year old girl by former Congressman Anthony Weiner, on electronic devices formerly shared by Weiner and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin. (The New York Times)
October 28, 2016, An American Airlines Boeing 767 catches fire after an aborted takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Seven passengers and one flight attendant were injured, and taken to area hospitals. (CNN)
October 30, 2016, 6.6 magnitude earthquake occurs in Central Italy 68 kilometres east southeast of Perugia. Many buildings are reported as having been destroyed. (Reuters via ABC Online)
-The 14th century Basilica of St. Benedict in the town of Norcia is destroyed. (The Guardian)
October 30, 2016,
October 30, 2016, The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians 3 runs to 2 at Illinois' Wrigley Field in Game 5 of the 2016 World Series to avoid elimination and force a Game 6 with the series standing at 3 games to 2 in favor of the Cleveland Indians. It is the Cubs' first-ever win of a World Series game at the stadium since October 1945. (MLB)
October 31, 2016, Series Premiere of People of Earth
October 31, 2016, General Electric says it plans to merge its oil and gas business with the large oilfield services provider Baker Hughes. This follows the demise of a merger plan between Baker Hughes and Halliburton. (Reuters)
October 27, 2016, Mars Mimi-Series Premiere
October 27, 2016, The Great Indoors Series Premiere
October 27, 2016, Pure Genius Series Premiere
October 27, 2016, Mom Season 4 Premiere
October 27, 2016, Seven members of the militia who occupied the wildlife refuge, including the leader Ammon Bundy, was acquitted of all federal charges related to the takeover. (New York Times)
October 27, 2016, Japan's Prince Mikasa, the oldest member of the Imperial Family, dies at the age of 100. (Reuters)
October 28, 2016, Release of Inferno
October 28, 2016, James Comey informs Congress that "the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear pertinent to the investigation." He says the FBI has not yet assessed the importance or significance of these emails. (CNN)
-Law enforcement officials say the emails in question were found during the course of an investigation into illicit texts sent to a fifteen year old girl by former Congressman Anthony Weiner, on electronic devices formerly shared by Weiner and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin. (The New York Times)
October 28, 2016, An American Airlines Boeing 767 catches fire after an aborted takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Seven passengers and one flight attendant were injured, and taken to area hospitals. (CNN)
October 28, 2016, At an annual meeting of the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in Hobart, Australia, twenty-four countries and the European Union agree to create the world's largest marine park in Antarctica's Ross Sea. The marine park will cover more than 12 percent of the Southern Ocean, and will be protected from commercial fishing for 35 years. (Reuters)
October 28, 2016, A fire destroys the historic Royal Clarence Hotel in Exeter, Devon, which is described as the oldest hotel in England. (BBC)
-The 14th century Basilica of St. Benedict in the town of Norcia is destroyed. (The Guardian)
October 30, 2016,
October 30, 2016, The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians 3 runs to 2 at Illinois' Wrigley Field in Game 5 of the 2016 World Series to avoid elimination and force a Game 6 with the series standing at 3 games to 2 in favor of the Cleveland Indians. It is the Cubs' first-ever win of a World Series game at the stadium since October 1945. (MLB)
October 31, 2016, Series Premiere of People of Earth
October 31, 2016, General Electric says it plans to merge its oil and gas business with the large oilfield services provider Baker Hughes. This follows the demise of a merger plan between Baker Hughes and Halliburton. (Reuters)
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