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This article covers daily news and events in October 2019. The month was to date the second hottest October worldwide since the beginning of weather records after October 2015.

Daily events

Tuesday 1st October 2019

• Köthen / Germany : The satirist Jan Böhmermann joins the SPD .
• Las Vegas : The American presidential candidate Bernie Sanders suffers a heart attack after appearing in an election campaign.
• Lima / Peru : The Peruvian Vice President Mercedes Aráoz resigns. The day before, she had been appointed transitional president by the dissolved parliament. She also withdraws from this.
• Beijing / China : On the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China , the government is holding the largest military parade in its history
• San Marino : For the 19th time, a woman becomes head of government in San Marino: Mariella Mularoni takes on the six-month office of Capitano Reggente alongside her colleague Luca Boschi . This makes San Marino by far the country with the most women heads of government in its history: Since 1981, 17 women have headed the state in a quarter of that time.
• Washington, DC / USA : Kristalina Georgiewa takes up her position as IMF Director.
• Vienna / Austria : The FPÖ suspends the membership of its former chairman Heinz-Christian Strache .

Wednesday October 2, 2019

• Cologne / Germany : Awarding of the German Comedy Prize

Thursday 3rd October 2019

• Quito / Ecuador : Due to violent protests against sharp increases in fuel prices after subsidies were lifted, President Lenín Moreno declares a state of emergency.
• Paris / France : Attack on the police prefecture
• Strasbourg / France : The captain of the Sea-Watch 3 Carola Rackete gives a speech in the European Parliament .

Friday 4th October 2019

• Japan : Typhoon Hagibis
• Stuttgart / Germany : The 2019 World Gymnastics Championships are opening.

Saturday 5th October 2019

Sunday 6th October 2019

• Doha / Qatar : The 2019 World Athletics Championships are ending.
• Hockenheim / Germany : On the Hockenheimring ending 33 season of the DTM
• Heilbronn / Germany : End of the Federal Garden Show
• Kitzbühel / Austria : The Austrian ice hockey goalkeeper Florian Janny and four other people are victims of multiple murders.
• Lisbon / Portugal : general election
• Pristina / Kosovo : parliamentary election
• Tunis / Tunisia : general election
• Washington, DC / USA : US President's phone call Donald Trump agrees in a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that Turkey invades the north of the country after the American withdrawal from Syria.

Monday 7th October 2019

• The Hague / Netherlands : By leaving the parliamentary group, the Dutch government loses its majority in parliament.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to the US cell researchers William G. Kaelin and Gregg L. Semenza and their British colleague Peter J. Ratcliffe .
• Twistan Valley / Germany : The meat processor Wilke Waldecker Fleisch- und Wurstwaren GmbH & Co. KG gets caught in a meat scandal and as a result has to file for bankruptcy.
• Utrecht / Netherlands : Former Dutch building minister Ella Vogelaar (2007–2008) kills herself.

Tuesday 8th October 2019

• Nuremberg / Germany : The IG Metall chairman Jörg Hofmann is re-elected at the trade union day .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and the Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for “the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a star similar to the sun ” .

Wednesday October 9, 2019

• Halle an der Saale / Germany : Two people are killed in an attack in Halle .
• Quito / Ecuador : Ecuador is paralyzed by a general strike.
• Rojava / Syria : Beginning of the Turkish military offensive against the democratic forces of Syria .
• Stockholm / Sweden : For the development of lithium-ion batteries is John B. Goodenough , M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded.

Thursday October 10, 2019

• Brussels / Belgium : The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy of the European Parliament rejects Sylvie Goulard as a candidate for the new EU Commission von der Leyen .
• Bucharest / Romania : The Dăncilă cabinet is voted out of parliament by a vote of no confidence. Until a new government takes office, Viorica Dăncilă continues to run the business on a provisional basis.
• Havana / Cuba : The President of the State Council, Miguel Díaz-Canel , who has been in office since 2018, will be re-elected as head of state, who will no longer be called the President of the State Council under the new constitution.
• Mons / Belgium : The University of Mons is characterized Greta Thunberg with the honorary doctorate from.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Prize for Literature 2019 is awarded to the Austrian writer Peter Handke . The 2018 award will be given retrospectively to Olga Tokarczuk from Poland .
• Tehran / Iran : The first women have been allowed to enter a football stadium since the Iranian revolution.

Friday 11th October 2019

• Berlin / Germany : Dietmar Woidke is elected President of the Federal Council. His one-year term begins on November 1st.
• Oslo / Norway : In particular for his policy of reconciliation with its neighbor Eritrea is the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded.
• Potsdam / Germany : Awarding of the Prix ​​Europa
• Vienna / Austria : The Japanese Seiichi Furuya , who lives in Graz , is awarded the State Prize for Artistic Photography .

Saturday 12th October 2019

• Dresden / Germany : The Saxon regional bishop Carsten Rentzing resigns because of an earlier published right-wing extremist text.
• Vienna / Austria : The Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge is the first runner to complete the marathon route in under two hours. Due to the lack of competition conditions, his performance is not recognized as a world record .
• Munich / Germany : Last regional conference to elect the SPD chairmanship

Sunday 13th October 2019

• Berlin / Germany : Awarding of the Opus Klassik .
• Bregenz / Austria : State election in Vorarlberg
• Tunis / Tunisia : Second round of the presidential election
• Warsaw / Poland : parliamentary election

Monday October 14, 2019

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The German Book Prize is awarded to the German-Bosnian writer Saša Stanišić (origin) .
• London / United Kingdom : The Booker Prize will be awarded ex aequo to the Canadian Margaret Atwood (The Testaments) and the British Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other) . Evaristo is the first black author to receive the literary award.
• London / United Kingdom : The English Queen Elizabeth II opens the new British parliamentary term.
• Madrid / Spain : In the criminal proceedings following the Catalonia crisis since 2017 , nine Catalan politicians have been sentenced to long prison terms: former Vice Prime Minister Oriol Junqueras to 13 years; Ex-Labor Minister Dolors Bassa , Ex-Foreign Minister Raül Romeva , Jordi Sànchez and former government spokesman Jordi Turull for 12 years; Ex-Parliamentary President Carme Forcadell for eleven and a half years; Ex-Interior Minister Joaquim Forn as well as the former Sustainability Minister Josep Rull for ten and a half years and Jordi Cuixart for 9 years imprisonment. Ex-building minister Meritxell Borràs , ex-justice minister Carles Mundó and ex-culture minister Santi Vila receive fines.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Prize for Economics goes to Abhijit Banerjee , his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer . Duflo is only the second woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Economics.

Tuesday 15th October 2019

• Maputo / Mozambique : Elections in Mozambique 2019
• Santa Barbara / USA : The son of the American actor Ron Ely shoots his mother and is then shot by the police.
• New York City / UN / Haiti : The UN stops its peacekeeping missions in Haiti after 15 years.

Wednesday October 16, 2019

• Manbij / Syria : The Syrian army recaptures Manbij from the Kurds.

Thursday 17th October 2019

• Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag rejects an application from the Greens to speed limits on motorways .
• Brussels / Belgium : EU summit on the topics of eastward expansion, budget and Brexit. (until October 18th)
• Gibraltar : general election
• Manila / Philippines : The Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is slightly injured in a motorcycle accident.
• Beirut / Lebanon : The protests in Lebanon start in 2019

Friday October 18, 2019

• Barcelona / Spain : start of a general strike in Catalonia .
• Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag decides to amend the Basic Law to enable a reform of the property tax required by a ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court .
• Chengdu / China : Start of the Women's World Cup in Table Tennis (until October 20th)
• Jalalabad / Afghanistan : At least 62 people are killed and dozens more injured in an attack during Friday prayers on a mosque in the Haska Mina district of Nangarhar province .
• Munich / Germany : CSU boss Markus Söder is re-elected at the party conference.
• Santiago / Chile : Riots over fare increases at the Metro de Santiago . Operations had to be discontinued across the board.

Saturday 19th October 2019

• London / United Kingdom : The British House of Commons votes in a special session against an immediate approval of the new Brexit treaty. This brings the Benn Act into force, forcing Prime Minister Boris Johnson to request an extension of the Brexit deadline in Brussels.
• Hong Kong : Protests in Hong Kong

Sunday 20th October 2019

• Bern / Switzerland : parliamentary elections
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .
• Jakarta / Indonesia : Indonesia's President Joko Widodo is sworn in for a second term.
• La Paz / Sucre / Bolivia : Bolivian presidential and parliamentary elections

Monday October 21, 2019

• Ottawa / Canada : General Election
• Sydney / Australia : In a joint campaign under the motto Your Right to Know , Australia's largest daily newspapers appear with partially blackened front pages in protest against increasing restrictions on freedom of the press.
• Tarassenkowe / Ukraine : Former Ukrainian Agriculture Minister (2016-2018) Taras Kutowyj dies in a helicopter crash at the age of 43.
• Münchenstein / Switzerland : Swiss Indoors Basel 2019 (until October 27th)

Tuesday October 22, 2019

• Belfast / Northern Ireland : Because the Northern Irish Parliament can neither agree on its own government nor on changes to a resolution passed in July by the British House of Commons in July that exempts same-sex marriages and abortions in Northern Ireland from punishment, this resolution takes effect at the beginning of the day in force.

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• Vienna / Austria : After the National Council election , the constituent session of the XXVII. Legislative period. As National President is Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) re-elected Second National Council is again Doris Bures (SPÖ). Norbert Hofer succeeds Anneliese Kitzmüller (both FPÖ) as the third President of the National Council .
• Gaborone / Botswana : General election
• Grays / England : 39 people are found dead on a truck .

Thursday October 24, 2019

• Vienna / Austria : Start of the Viennale (until November 6th)
• La Paz / Bolivia : After all votes have been counted , Evo Morales has the necessary 10% lead to win the first ballot

Friday 25th October 2019

• Ethiopia : More than 60 dead in unrest in the past few days.
• Northern Territory / Australia : The ascent of Uluru (Ayers Rock) is discontinued as of today.
• La Paz / Bolivia : Opposition protests over doubts about the results of the presidential and parliamentary elections on October 20
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : 50th German Jazz Festival (until October 27)
• Vienna / Austria : Presentation of the Big Brother Awards in the Vienna Rabenhof Theater
• Wattens / Austria : Alex Beer is awarded the Austrian Crime Prize as part of the Tyrolean crime festival .

Saturday 26th October 2019

• Barischa / Syria : The leader of the terrorist organization IS dies in the US military operation Operation Kayla Mueller .
• Berlin / Germany : Results of the first member survey for election to the SPD chairmanship announced
• Sölden / Austria : Start of the Alpine Ski World Cup , the season after the resignation of eight-time overall World Cup winner Marcel Hirscher .

Sunday October 27, 2019

• Buenos Aires / Argentina : presidential and parliamentary elections
• Erfurt / Germany : State election in Thuringia
• Germany : Ulf Kämper ( SPD ) is confirmed in their office as Lord Mayor in Kiel and Bernd Wiegand (independent) in Halle an der Saale . In the first round of mayor elections in Hanover, the SPD candidate will be eliminated, so for the first time since 1946 there will be no SPD mayor in the Lower Saxony capital. The election of the mayor also takes place in Mainz ; as in Hanover, a second ballot is required on November 10th .
• Mannheim / Germany : Awarding of the German Environment Prize to Ingrid Kögel-Knabner and Reinhard Schneider .
• Montevideo / Uruguay : presidential and parliamentary elections

Monday 28th October 2019

• Sharm El Sheikh / Egypt : Start of the World Radio Conference (until November 22nd)

Tuesday October 29, 2019

Wednesday October 30, 2019

• Santiago de Chile / Chile : Due to the ongoing protests in the country , the Chilean President Sebastián Piñera cancels the hosting of the World Climate Conference planned for December .

Thursday October 31, 2019

• Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia : Abdullah Shah , who has been in office since January 31, is crowned King of Malaysia.
• London / United Kingdom : John Bercow resigns as Speaker of the House of Commons .
• Vienna / Austria : The athletes of the year are honored in the Marx-Halle .
• Naha / Japan : Shuri Castle is almost completely destroyed by a major fire.
• Liaquatpur , Rahimyar Khan District / Pakistan : When two gas cartridges carried by train passengers explode, three Tezgam Express wagons burn out in the Tanwari railway accident . At least 73 people die, most of them because they tried to save themselves by jumping off a moving train.
• New Delhi / India : The Indian government divides the previous federal states of Jammu and Kashmir into the direct government union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh .

See also

• Nekrolog October 2019 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in October
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in October
• Wikipedia: Ongoing event

Web links

Commons : October 2019  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.noaa.gov/news/globe-had-its-2nd-hottest-october-and-year-to-date-on-record
2. ↑ dpa / cba: Jan Böhmermann is now an SPD comrade - but there are concerns in the party. In: welt.de . October 1, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 . 
3. ↑ The German Comedy Prize 2019: These are the nominations. In: RTL.de. September 9, 2019, accessed September 9, 2019 . 
4. ↑ asc / dpa / AFP / Reuters: Ecuador declares a state of emergency. In: Spiegel Online . October 4, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 . 
5. ^ Early elections in Kosovo on October 6th. , Deutsche Welle , accessed on October 2, 2019.
6. ^ Romania's government voted out of office by a vote of no confidence. In: ORF.at . October 10, 2019, accessed October 10, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Six ORF nominations for the Prix Europa media prize. ORF, August 27, 2019, accessed on the same day.
8. ↑ State Prize for Artistic Photography goes to Furuya. ORF, September 10, 2019, accessed on the same day.
9. ^ Opus-Klassik-Preis for Jonas Kaufmann and Igor Levit. ORF, September 2, 2019, accessed on the same day.
10. ^ Vorarlberg election probably on October 13th. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . June 5, 2019, accessed June 5, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Ron Ely's wife and son are dead , Spiegel Online, October 17, 2019
12. ↑ 'Tarzan' actor Ron Ely's wife stabbed to death by son: police , New York Post, October 16, 2019 (English)
13. ↑ UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti is discontinued , Deutsche Welle October 15, 2019
14. ↑ No more UN police officers in Haiti, although the country is in crisis Der Standard October 16, 2019
15. ↑ Category: UN Mission (Haiti)
16. ↑ Against Brexit backdrop, Gibraltar goes to the polls on October 17. Gibraltar Chronicle , September 16, 2019, accessed on the same day. (English)
17. ↑ Philippine head of state: Duterte slightly injured in motorcycle accident. In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de. October 17, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 . 
18. ↑ Protests in Lebanon “All Thieves” in Tagesschau from October 21, 2019
19. ↑ Explosion at Afghan mosque kills dozens. In: dw.com. October 18, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 . 
20. ↑ Hong Kong Violence and Blue Streets October 20, 2019
21. ↑ New Escalation Why the Police in Hong Kong Color the Water Blue , Die Welt October 20, 2019
22. ↑ https://www.evangelisch.de/inhalte/161606/20-10-2019/indonesiens-praesident-joko-widodo-fuer-zweite-amtszeit-vereidigt
23. ↑ The President sets the date for the constituent meeting of the newly elected National Council for October 23. Retrieved July 2, 2019 . 
24. ↑ Constituent meeting: Sobotka elected as President of the National Council. In: ORF.at . October 23, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 . 
25. ↑ TheGuardian: Driver arrested after 39 bodies found in lorry container in Essex , accessed October 24, 2019.
26. ↑ Ethiopia More than 60 dead in unrest , Tagesschau (ARD) October 25th
27. ↑ Violence in Ethiopia More than 60 dead in protests , taz October 25th
28. ↑ Doubts about election results Further protests in Bolivia - Federal Foreign Office calls for runoff , Der Spiegel October 25, 2019
29. ↑ Austrian Crime Award 2019 goes to Alex Beer. ORF , October 15, 2019, accessed on the same day.
30. ↑ Because of ongoing unrest: Chile cancels world climate conference. In: Spiegel Online. October 30, 2019, accessed November 1, 2019 . 
31. ↑ Athlete of the Year will receive Niki in the future. ORF, October 16, 2019, accessed on the same day.
32. ↑ http://www.radio.gov.pk/31-10-2019/five-killed-as-fire-engulfed-three-bogies-of-tezgam-express-in-rahim-yar-khan
33. ↑ Hannah Ellis-Petersen: Pakistan train fire: at least 70 dead after gas explosion. In: theguardian.com. October 31, 2019, accessed on May 15, 2020 . 
34. ↑ http://newsonair.com/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=373694