On this day — October 10

Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.

replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh] as China's primary firefighting agency.

However, they are never ratified by either side.

Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.

killing 74.

killing 1,500.

and force it to land in Italy.

killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.

Satakunta, Finland.