Nobel Prize in Chemistry Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of ‘super-resolved fluorescence microscopy’.
North America People in North America, Australia, western South America and parts of East Asia will be able to see a lunar eclipse today.
European Parliament With 13 votes for and 122 against, the European Parliament rejects former Slovenian Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek's candidacy for Vice-President of the European Commission and as Commissioner for the Energy Union.
Uhuru Kenyatta Uhuru Kenyatta, the President of Kenya, appears at a status conference at the International Criminal Court regarding post-election violence in 2007.
Ebola virus disease in the United States The first person who was diagnosed with ebola in the United States, Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man, dies in Dallas, Texas.
Cave painting Archaeologists date cave paintings in Maros on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi as being 40,000 years old, which is as old as similar works in Europe.
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is awarded the $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize in a ceremony in Stockholm.
Taliban insurgency A suicide bomber kills at least four people and wounds 16 in Afghanistan's Helmand province.
Kobanî At least 19 Kurdish civilians were killed while protesting against the government's inaction in defending Kobani from ISIS advances.
"undocumented and unmarked graves" Mass graves found in Iguala, Mexico, on October 5th reportedly contain the remains of 28 of the 43 missing students that clashed with the police during last September.