October 10·Every year

World Sight Day

Held on the second Thursday of October, World Sight Day addresses avoidable blindness and visual impairment. An estimated 1.1 billion people worldwide live with vision impairment, 90% of them in low- and middle-income countries. More than 80% of all blindness is preventable or treatable with existing interventions — the barrier is access, not technology.

Category: Awareness
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Notable · 2004

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

2022Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
2018Hurricane 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.
2018The 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.