Lion Air Flight 610 crashes off the coast of Java, with 189 passengers on board.
Monthly Archives: October 2018
11 people are killed during the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting was a mass shooting that occurred at Tree of Life – Or L’Simcha Congregation[a] in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 27, 2018, while Shabbat morning services were being held. Eleven people were killed and seven were injured. It was the deadliest […]
10/27/2018 – 11 people are killed during the Pittsburgh synagogue ...
The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge is the world’s longest sea crossing bridge.
10/23/2018 – The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge is opened
The unmanned European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo is launched on a seven-year journey to Mercury.
10/19/2018 – BepiColombo is launched on a seven-year journey to ...
At least 59 people are killed and at least 100 injured when a train runs through a crowd at a Hindu festival in Punjab, India. Two Indian Railways passenger trains crashed into a crowd of people in the eastern outskirts of Amritsar, Punjab, on 19 October 2018. The crowd had gathered to watch celebrations for the Hindu festival of Dussehra and […]
10/19/2018 – Amritsar train disaster in Punjab, India.
Unified middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez and the streaming service DAZN have agreed to a five-year, 11-fight deal that will pay the boxer at least $365 million — the highest-paying athlete contract in history. reuters.com
10/17/2018 – Boxer Alvarez signs $365M deal, richest contract in ...
Canada legalizes the sale and use of cannabis, becoming the second country in the world to do so, after Uruguay in 2013.
10/16/2018 – Canada legalizes the sale and use of cannabis
Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft who helped usher in the personal computing revolution and then channeled his enormous fortune into transforming Seattle into a cultural destination, died on Monday in Seattle. He was 65. The cause was complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his family said in a statement. The disease […]
