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Brian James Adam was a Scottish politician and biochemist who served as Minister for Parliamentary Business and Chief Whip from 2011 to 2012. A member of the Scottish National Part…
Brian Adam, Scottish biochemist and politician (born 1948)
Grand Theft Auto V is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the seventh main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series, followi…
Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.
Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen simply known as al-Shabaab is a transnational Wahhabi-Salafi Jihadist militant organization. It is involved in the ongoing Somali Civil War, contro…
Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
Typhoon Usagi, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Odette, was a tropical cyclone which affected Taiwan, the Philippines, China, and Hong Kong in mid September 2013. Usagi was the …
Twenty-five people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China.
The moment magnitude scale is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude based on its seismic moment. Mw was defined in a 1979 paper by Thomas C. Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori. Before Hanks…
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing at least 327 people.
On 3 October 2013, a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. It was reported that the boat had sailed from Misrata, Libya, but that man…
At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Jacob Avshalomov was a composer and conductor.
Jacob Avshalomov, American composer and conductor (born 1919)
György Berencsi 3rd was a Hungarian virologist. He was the Head of the Department of Virology at the "Béla Johan" National Centre for Epidemiology and professor at the Semmelweis U…
György Berencsi, Hungarian virologist and academic (born 1941)
Rick Lamar Camp was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for a total of nine seasons with the Atlanta Braves between 1976 and 1985.
Rick Camp, American baseball player (born 1953)
Jacqueline Victoire Brookes was an American film, television, and stage actress, best known for her work both off-Broadway and on Broadway.
Jacqueline Brookes, American actress and educator (born 1930)
On 3 October 2013, a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. It was reported that the boat had sailed from Misrata, Libya, but that man…
A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 359 people drowning.
The collapse of the Space Building occurred on the night of October 12, 2013, when Tower 6 of the Space Building, a residential apartment complex, collapsed in Medellín, Colombia, …
An apartment building collapse in Medellín, Colombia results in the deaths of twelve people.
Seismic magnitude scales are used to describe the overall strength or "size" of an earthquake. These are distinguished from seismic intensity scales that categorize the intensity o…
The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.
Lao Airlines Flight 301 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Vientiane to Pakse, Laos. On 16 October 2013, the ATR 72-600 aircraft operating the flight crashed into the M…
Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory until 1938, is an internal territory of Australia. Canberra, the capital city of Australia, is situat…
The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the…
Aída Bortnik was an Argentine screenwriter, nominated for an Academy Award for her work in the film La historia oficial (1985). She has the notable distinction of having written th…
Aída Bortnik, Argentinian screenwriter (born 1938)
Lorraine Copeland was a British archaeologist specialising in the Palaeolithic period of the Near East. She was a secret agent with the Special Operations Executive during World Wa…
Lorraine Copeland, Scottish archaeologist (born 1921)
Antonio Díaz Jurado was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Antonio Díaz Jurado, Spanish footballer (born 1969)
Jérôme Louis Heldring was a Dutch journalist. He was columnist (1953–2012) and editor-in-chief (1968–1972) of the newspapers Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant and NRC Handelsblad.
Jérôme Louis Heldring, Dutch journalist and author (born 1917)
Aloysius Jin Luxian, SJ was a Chinese Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Shanghai.
Aloysius Jin Luxian, Chinese bishop (born 1916)
Mutula Kilonzo was a Kenyan politician and Senior Counsel, who served as Minister of Education after having previously served as Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan and justice and c…
Mutula Kilonzo, Kenyan lawyer and politician, Kenyan Minister of Justice (born 1948)
On 28 October 2013, a car ran over pedestrians and crashed in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, in a terrorist suicide attack. Five people died in the incident; three inside the ve…
Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China.
The 2013 Mahabubnagar bus accident occurred on 30 October 2013 when a private Volvo bus on the way from Bangalore to Hyderabad caught fire after hitting a culvert while overtaking …
Forty-five people are killed and seven injured after a bus catches fire in Mahabubnagar district, Andhra Pradesh…
François Jacob was a French biologist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control…
François Jacob, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)