Editing 2018 (section)

=== October ===
*[[October 1]] – The [[International Court of Justice]] rules that Chile is [[Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean|not obliged to negotiate access to the Pacific Ocean]] with Bolivia.<ref name=":15">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/01/landlocked-bolivias-request-for-chile-to-grant-ocean-access-rejected-by-un|title=Landlocked Bolivia's request for Chile to discuss ocean access rejected by UN|date=2018-10-01|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-05-17|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190516214421/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/01/landlocked-bolivias-request-for-chile-to-grant-ocean-access-rejected-by-un|archive-date=2019-05-16|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 2]] – ''[[The Washington Post]]'' journalist [[Jamal Khashoggi]] is [[Murder of Jamal Khashoggi|murdered]] inside the Saudi consulate in [[Istanbul]], Turkey, triggering a diplomatic crisis for Saudi Arabia.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gall |first1=Carlotta |title=In Turkey, Mourning the Dissident Khashoggi While Cracking Down on Dissent |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/world/europe/khashoggi-turkey.html |access-date=November 16, 2018 |work=N.Y. Times |date=November 16, 2018 |language=en |archive-date=November 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116214116/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/world/europe/khashoggi-turkey.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[October 6]] – The [[2018 Latvian parliamentary election]] is held to elect All 100 members of the [[Saeima]], [[Latvia|Latvia's]] [[Unicameralism|unicameral]] legislature.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://sv2018.cvk.lv/pub/ElectionResults |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=sv2018.cvk.lv |title=13. SAEIMAS VĒLĒŠANAS |language=lv |archive-date=April 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402102522/https://sv2018.cvk.lv/pub/ElectionResults |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-07-17 |title=Russian minority party wins Latvian vote; populists surge |url=https://apnews.com/article/europe-russia-elections-race-and-ethnicity-international-news-413f32b662034a88945e7c28d0bdaf57 |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=AP NEWS |language=en |archive-date=April 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220402064918/https://apnews.com/article/europe-russia-elections-race-and-ethnicity-international-news-413f32b662034a88945e7c28d0bdaf57 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-10-07 |title=Dissatisfied Latvians turn to newcomers in parliamentary election |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-latvia-election-idUSKCN1MH0BH |access-date=2022-04-02 |archive-date=April 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220402064918/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-latvia-election-idUSKCN1MH0BH |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-10-08 |title=Pro-Russia party wins Latvia election but tough talks loom |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45774578 |access-date=2022-04-02 |archive-date=June 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608194609/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45774578 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[October 8]] – The [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change|IPCC]] releases its [[Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C]], warning that "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society" are needed to ensure that [[global warming]] is kept below 1.5&nbsp;°C.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=McGrath |first1=Matt |date=October 8, 2018 |title=Climate report: Scientists urge deep rapid change to limit warming |website=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45775309 |access-date=October 8, 2018 |archive-date=October 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008013009/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45775309 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[October 10]] – [[Hurricane Michael]] makes landfall at [[Mexico Beach, Florida]] as a Category&nbsp;5 hurricane with winds of 160&nbsp;mph (260&nbsp;km/h) and a minimum pressure of {{convert|919|mb|inHg|abbr=on}}. It is the most intense hurricane to hit the mainland United States since [[Hurricane Camille|Camille]] in 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/fl-ne-hurricane-michael-apocalypse-20181011-story.html|title=Hurricane Michael wipes out Mexico Beach, Florida, in 'apocalyptic' assault|date=October 11, 2018|website=Sun-Sentinel|access-date=October 11, 2018|archive-date=October 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011233725/http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/fl-ne-hurricane-michael-apocalypse-20181011-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 16]] – Canada legalises the sale and use of [[cannabis]], becoming the second country in the world to do so, after Uruguay in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45806255|title=Canada becomes second country to legalise recreational marijuana|date=October 16, 2018|website=BBC News|access-date=October 16, 2018|archive-date=October 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017025636/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45806255|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 17]] – [[Kerch Polytechnic College massacre|A school shooting and bomb attack]] in [[Kerch]], [[Crimea]], kills 20 people and injures 70 others.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-sends-in-national-guard-after-crimea-school-shooting-rampage/29550061.html|title=Crimea Shooting-Rampage Death Toll Rises To 21|website=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=October 18, 2018|access-date=March 8, 2019|archive-date=April 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406213325/https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-sends-in-national-guard-after-crimea-school-shooting-rampage/29550061.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 19]]
** At least 59 people are killed and at least 100 injured when a [[Amritsar train disaster|train runs through a crowd]] at a Hindu festival in Punjab, India.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-45913793|title=Amritsar: Scores dead as train mows down crowd|date=October 19, 2018|website=BBC News|access-date=October 19, 2018|archive-date=October 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019151023/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-45913793|url-status=live}}</ref>
** The uncrewed European-Japanese spacecraft ''[[BepiColombo]]'' is launched on a seven-year journey to [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sci.esa.int/bepicolombo/58591-bepicolombo-launch-rescheduled-for-october-2018/ |title=ESA Science & Technology: BepiColombo launch rescheduled for October 2018 |publisher=Sci.esa.int |access-date=2017-03-24 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20170319170415/http://sci.esa.int/bepicolombo/58591-bepicolombo-launch-rescheduled-for-october-2018/ |archive-date=March 19, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[October 20]]
** 700,000 people [[Opposition to Brexit in the United Kingdom#The People's Vote March for the Future|march]] through [[central London]] demanding a second referendum on the final [[Brexit]] deal.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45925542|title=People's Vote march: 'Hundreds of thousands' attending London protest|work=BBC News|date=October 20, 2018|access-date=October 20, 2018|archive-date=October 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020080318/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45925542|url-status=live}}</ref> The event is the second most attended protest of the 21st century in the United Kingdom after the [[15 February 2003 anti-war protest|"Stop the War" anti-Iraq War march in 2003]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2018/oct/20/peoples-vote-march-london-second-referendum-brexit-live|title=People's Vote march: '700,000' rally for new Brexit referendum|newspaper=The Guardian|date=October 20, 2018|access-date=October 20, 2018|archive-date=October 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021211909/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2018/oct/20/peoples-vote-march-london-second-referendum-brexit-live|url-status=live}}</ref>
** President Trump announces that the US will "terminate" the [[Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty]] over alleged Russian violations.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45930206|title=President Trump to pull US from Russia missile treaty|date=October 21, 2018|work=BBC News|access-date=October 21, 2018|archive-date=January 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116024007/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45930206|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 23]] – The [[Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge]], the world's longest sea crossing bridge, is opened by Chinese [[Paramount leader]] [[Xi Jinping]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-45937924|title=World's longest sea crossing: Hong Kong-Zhuhai bridge opens|date=October 23, 2018|work=BBC News|access-date=October 23, 2018|archive-date=October 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023043506/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-45937924|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 26]] – [[Red Dead Redemption II]] is released on PS4 and Xbox One. It would become the 8th best selling video game of all-time with 50,000,000+ copies sold.
* [[October 27]] – [[Michael D. Higgins]] is re-elected President of Ireland after receiving 822,566 first preference votes in the [[2018 Irish presidential election]].<ref>[https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-presidential-election-result-2018-4309332-Oct2018/ Michael D Higgins has been re-elected as President of Ireland with 55.8% of the vote] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028000459/https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-presidential-election-result-2018-4309332-Oct2018/ |date=October 28, 2018 }} The Journal, October 27, 2018.</ref>
* [[October 28]] – The [[right-wing]] [[Jair Bolsonaro]] is elected as the next [[President of Brazil]], with 55% of the vote.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46013408|title=Jair Bolsonaro: Far-right candidate wins Brazil poll|date=October 28, 2018|work=BBC News|access-date=October 29, 2018|archive-date=March 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317012857/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46013408|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/28/jair-bolsonaro-wins-brazil-presidential-election|title=Jair Bolsonaro declared Brazil's next president|date=October 28, 2018|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=October 29, 2018|last1=Janeiro|first1=Tom Phillips Dom Phillips in Rio de|archive-date=December 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207045914/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/28/jair-bolsonaro-wins-brazil-presidential-election|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 29]] – [[Lion Air Flight 610]] crashes off the coast of [[Java]], killing all 189 people on board.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46014463|title=Lion Air crash: Boeing 737 plane crashes in sea off Jakarta|date=October 29, 2018|work=BBC News|access-date=October 29, 2018|archive-date=October 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029023833/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46014463|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 30]] – [[NASA]]'s [[Kepler space telescope]] mission ends after the spacecraft runs out of fuel.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.space.com/41363-kepler-exoplanet-hunting-telescope-dead.html|title=RIP, Kepler: NASA's Revolutionary Planet-Hunting Telescope Runs Out of Fuel|first1=Mike|last1=Wall|first2=Space com Senior Writer|last2=October 30|first3=2018 03:10pm|last3=ET|website=Space.com|date=October 30, 2018|access-date=October 30, 2018|archive-date=October 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181030210702/https://www.space.com/41363-kepler-exoplanet-hunting-telescope-dead.html|url-status=live}}</ref>