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Columbus / Indigenous Peoples' Day

Second Monday of October in the US — a federal holiday since 1937 originally honoring Columbus's 1492 voyage. Many states and cities now observe it as Indigenous Peoples' Day instead; both names appear on the same date.

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Notable · 2013

Twelve people were killed in an apartment-building collapse in Medellín, leading to new construction laws being passed in Colombia.

20222022 Bratislava shooting, killing 3 (including the perpetrator) and injuring one. The shooting occurred outside of a gay bar in Bratislava known as Tepláreň. Two people (excluding the perpetrator) died as a result of the shooting: Juraj Vankulič, a non-binary person, and Matúš Horváth, a bisexual man. The perpetrator (Juraj Krajčík) was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot the morning after the attack.
2019Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.
2019Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.