Philippines. Amidst corruption controversies hounding the Arroyo administration, a bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati. The blast killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.

Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.

Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.

Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption.

Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.

SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.

The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.

Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.

In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran's offshore oil platforms.

Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.

Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.

Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.

Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.

President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.

The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.

The first discothèque opens.

First ascent of Cho Oyu

Korean War: After the Chinese leadership finally settled the issue of armed intervention on October 18, the People's Republic of China joins the Korean War by sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river to fight United Nations forces.

The People's Liberation Army takes control of the town of Qamdo; this is sometimes called the "Invasion of Tibet".

United States forces land in the Philippines.

Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.

The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.

Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.

Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.

The Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.

The First Battle of Ypres begins.

Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.

Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.

Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.

St. Albans Raid

Battle of Cedar Creek

In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.

The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.

Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.

Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.

At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis' sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.

New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.

Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (''Doctor in Biblia'').

Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.

The Thirteen Years War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.

The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.

King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.

The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.