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October 2024 will be the tenth month of the current leap year. The month, which will begin on a Tuesday, will end on a Thursday after 31 days.

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Ongoing events

Disasters

• European floods
• Gaza humanitarian crisis
• Haitian crisis
• Sudanese famine
• United States opioid epidemic

Economics

• Argentine monetary crisis
• Chinese property sector crisis
• South African energy crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
• Video game industry layoffs

Mass media and entertainment

• Blocking of Twitter in Brazil

Politics

• Mexico–United States border crisis
• South China Sea territorial disputes
• Venezuelan political crisis

Protests and strikes

• French anti-government protests
• Israel–Hamas war protests

• University campus protests

• New Caledonia social unrest
• Venezuelan protests

Elections and referendums

Recent

• September

• 07: Algeria, President
• 10: Jordan, House of Representatives

Ongoing

• 20–21: Czechia, Senate (1st)

Upcoming

• 21: Sri Lanka, President
• 22: Switzerland, Referendums
• 29: Austria, National Council

Trials

Recently concluded

• Guinea:0Moussa Dadis Camara
• United States:0Thomas Girardi

Ongoing

• France:0Dominique Pélicot
• Israel:0Benjamin Netanyahu
• Kosovo:0Specialist Chambers
• United States:0YSL Records
• ICC:0Ali Kushayb  •  Mahamat Said Abdel Kani

Sports

• American football

• 2024 NFL season
• 2024 NCAA Division I FBS season

• Association football

• 2024–25 UEFA Champions League
• 2024–25 UEFA Europa League
• 2024–25 UEFA Conference League
• 2024 Copa Libertadores
• 2024 Copa Sudamericana
• 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2024–25 Premier League
• 2024–25 Serie A
• 2024–25 La Liga
• 2024–25 Bundesliga
• 2024–25 Ligue 1
• 2024 Major League Soccer season
• 2024 National Women's Soccer League season

• Australian rules football

• 2024 AFL season

• Baseball

• 2024 MLB season

• Basketball

• 2024 WNBA season

• Canadian football

• 2024 CFL season

• International cricket

• 2023–25 ICC World Test Championship

• Golf

• 2024 PGA Tour
• 2024 LPGA Tour

• Motorsport

• 2024 Formula One World Championship
• 2024 MotoGP World Championship
• 2024 NASCAR Cup Series

• Rugby league

• 2024 NRL season

• Tennis

• 2024 ATP Tour
• 2024 WTA Tour

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

September

• 20: Ibrahim Aqil
• 18: Salvatore Schillaci
• 17: Nelson DeMille
• 17: JD Souther
• 15: Elias Khoury
• 15: Tito Jackson
• 14: Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah
• 13: Michaela DePrince
• 13: Pravin Gordhan
• 13: Mary McFadden
• 12: Stephen Peat
• 12: Sitaram Yechury
• 11: Kenneth Cope
• 11: Alberto Fujimori
• 11: Chad McQueen
• 11: Joe Schmidt
• 10: Frankie Beverly
• 10: Jim Sasser
• 09: John Cassaday
• 09: James Earl Jones
• 09: Friedrich Schorlemmer
• 08: Mauricio Arriaza Chicas
• 08: Ed Kranepool
• 08: Zoot Money
• 08: Emi Shinohara
• 07: Diondre Overton
• 06: Rebecca Horn
• 06: Will Jennings
• 06: Cathy Merrick
• 06: Ron Yeats
• 05: Rebecca Cheptegei
• 05: Herbie Flowers
• 05: Sérgio Mendes
• 05: Rich Homie Quan
• 04: Bora Đorđević
• 02: James Darren
• 02: Rodolfo Hernández
• 01: Linda Deutsch

August

• 31: Sol Bamba
• 31: Hersh Goldberg-Polin
• 30: Fatman Scoop
• 30: Tūheitia Paki
• 29: Johnny Gaudreau
• 28: Michael Lerner
• 28: Obi Ndefo
• 28: Steve Silberman
• 27: Juan Izquierdo
• 27: Charlotte Kretschmann
• 27: Leonard Riggio
• 26: Frank Coppa
• 26: Sven-Göran Eriksson
• 26: Sid Eudy
• 25: Alexander Goehr
• 25: Salim Al-Huss
• 24: Christoph Daum
• 24: Betty Halbreich
• 23: Peter Lundgren
• 23: Russell Malone
• 23: Catherine Ribeiro
• 22: Arthur J. Gregg

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Kivu conflict

• Ethiopia

• Amhara conflict

• Mozambique

• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

• Nigeria

• Boko Haram insurgency

• Sahel insurgency

• Mali War

• Burkina Faso
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• Republican insurgency

• India

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Indonesia

• Papua conflict

• Myanmar

• Civil war

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• Philippines

• NPA rebellion

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Iraq

• Islamic State insurgency

• Israel–Hamas

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict

• Red Sea crisis

• Syria

• Iran–Israel conflict
• Turkish intervention
• U.S.−led intervention

• Turkey

• PKK insurgency

• Yemen

• US–UK intervention

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

2024 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain