As I feel obligated to do now, as once you start you gotta keep going, here is the headlines from October.
This month started off slow, but news picked up as the month went on:
October 1 – Julia Pierson, Director of the Secret Service, resigns over WH breach
October 3 – ISIS releases yet another beheading video, this of a British hostage
October 4 – Former Haitian Dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier dies, Age 63
October 8 – Eric Duncan, first American-soil diagnosed case of Ebola, dies
October 10 – Kailash Satyarthi (India) and Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan) win Nobel Peace Prizes
October 17 – President Obama names Ron Klain “Ebola Czar”, Klain is never heard from again
October 20 – 7 women found killed around Indiana, suspect arrested and confesses
October 20 – Fashion Designer Oscar de la Renta dies, Age 82
October 21 – Oscar Pistorius sentenced to 5 years for “culpable homicide”
October 21 – Reporter Ben Bradlee dies, Age 93
October 22 – Terrorist shoots and kills one in attack on Canadian Parliament
October 23 – Dr. tests positive for Ebola in NYC
October 23 – Terrorist attacks rookie cops in NYC with a hatchet
October 24 – 4 students die after shooting in Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington
October 24 – 1 sheriff dead, and 2 others injured in California shooting
October 28 – Unmanned NASA rocket explodes upon liftoff at Wallops Island
October 29 – San Francisco Giants win the World Series
October 30 – Former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, aka Mumbles, dies of cancer, Age 71
October 30 – 4 dead after small plane crashes into building at Wichita, Kansas, airport
October 30 – Eric Frein, suspect in Pennsylvania state-trooper shooting, captured after month-long search
October 31 – Virgin Galactic space tourism test flight crashes, killing one
October 31 – Marine Andrew Tahmooressi, jailed in Mexico after “mistake crossing” released
