On this day — October 21

in which actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded, killing the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injuring director Joel Souza.

resulting in incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remaining in office, albeit with the Liberal Party in a minority government.

Taiwan, killing 18 people and injuring 187.

32 people are killed when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapses.

killing 70 Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.

ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces.