10 October 1491

Eight-year-old Huang Na was abducted and murdered; her body was found three weeks later after a search across Singapore and Malaysia.

After 20 years of construction, Vidyasagar Setu, the longest cable-stayed bridge in India, opened, joining Kolkata and Howrah.

U.S. vice president Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with tax evasion.

The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibits all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground, went into effect.

World War II: The Kempeitai, the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army, arrested and tortured fifty-seven civilians and civilian internees on suspicion of their involvement in a raid on Singapore Harbour.

The Xinhai Revolution began with the Wuchang Uprising, marking the beginning of the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China.

Emmeline Pankhurst (pictured) founded the Women's Social and Political Union, a militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom.

English astronomer William Lassell discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune.

In a treaty with Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname gained territorial autonomy.

Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of Muhammad, was killed at the Battle of Karbala (depicted) by the forces of Yazid I, whom Husayn had refused to recognize as caliph.

Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.

The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh] as China's primary firefighting agency.

Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and injure 500+.

The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.

Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.

Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space on board Soyuz TMA-11.

Iraq War: The United States Congress approves the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.

A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.

Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.

A 5.7 Mw San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500.

US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.

The 7.1 Mw El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.

The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.