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Science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology has some connections.
9 Oct. Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg were announced as winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance.
10 Oct. German scientist Gerhard Ertl was announced as the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on chemical processes on solid surfaces.
24 Oct. Comet 17P/Holmes grew significantly brighter overnight, going from magnitude 17 to magnitude 3 in just a few hours, while in the constellation of Perseus.
Personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biograaphy will be connected.
8 Oct. Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies, and Sir Martin J. Evans were announced as winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of the principles for introducing specific gene modifications by the use of embryonic stem cells in mice.
Social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups can perhaps be applied to this period.
Material culture, conceptual culture, and behavioral culture will be of some interest.
2 Oct. 2007 Summer Special Olympics opened in Shanghai, China.
3 Oct. 2007 Pacific typhoon season: Vietnam evacuated 400,000 people from the provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh ahead of Severe Tropical Storm Lekima (Hanna). Two people died and hundreds of houses collapsed when the storm struck.
5 Oct. Marion Jones admitted using banned substances during her athletic career and risks being stripped of her five Olympic medals.
16 Oct. Irish writer Anne Enright won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering.
20 Oct. South Africa defeated England to win the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
21 Oct. Marco Fu won the 2007 Royal London Watches Grand Prix snooker tournament, defeating Ronnie O'Sullivan 9 frames to 6.
21 Oct. Kimi Räikkönen won the 2007 Formula One World Drivers Championship.
22 Oct. 2002 Festival Place opened its doors for the first time
25 Oct. The Airbus A380 took off on its inaugural passenger flight from Singapore to Sydney.
26 Oct. Apple Inc. launch the sixth major release of their Mac OS X operating system, entitled Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
28 Oct. Numerous locations and machines in North America were hit by the Year 2007 problem.
30 Oct. An International Space Station solar wing relocated by the crew of STS-120 was torn during deployment.
This will also include information on families.
18 Oct. Cécilia and Nicolas Sarkozy filed for divorce.
Education includes areas of research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and particular schools.
This includes areas of economic activity, industries, and economic systems.
2 Oct. Citigroup bought out minority shareholders of Japanese brokerage Nikko Cordial for $4.6 billion.
2 Oct. Five workers were trapped underground in an Xcel Energy hydroelectric plant near Georgetown, Colorado, United States due to a chemical fire. They were later found dead.
3 Oct. More than 3,000 gold miners were trapped underground in the Elandskraal mine at Elandsrand, northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, owned by Harmony Gold Mining.
10 Oct. The International Monetary Fund warned of a slowdown of the global economy in 2008 as a result of financial turmoil on global markets.
15 Oct. Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson were announced as winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.
15 Oct. Airbus delivered its first A380 aircraft to launch customer Singapore Airlines in a ceremony in Toulouse, France, almost 18 months behind schedule, but denied rumours that further delays to the programme are looming.
18 Oct. Oil prices reached $90 a barrel for the first time due to the low dollar and ongoing tension between Turkey and Iraq.
21 Oct. The world's biggest banks endorsed a rescue plan, also supported by the United States Treasury, to restore the world's financial system.
24 Oct. The Bank of America announced that it would lay off 3,000 staff following an announcement of a significant decline in earnings in the third quarter.
30 Oct. US light crude oil hit an all-time high of $US 93.53.
31 Oct. Alcatel-Lucent announced plans to cut 4,000 jobs.
Information on government can be categorized as related to law, government activities, government structure, and particular governments.
12 Oct. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Law
3 Oct. United States President George W. Bush vetoeed an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
3 Oct. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says that the corruption charges against her had not been dropped, and that Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad's announcement was part of a disinformation campaign.
1 Oct. President of Russia Vladimir Putin announced he would run on his party's list in the parliamentary elections in December and that he does not exclude the option of becoming Prime Minister of Russia after the election.
1 Oct. Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007: With 70 percent counted, Timoshenko's bloc and Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party had 48 percent of the vote. Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's party and his Communist and Socialist allies had 36.8 percent.
2 Oct. Pakistan: The Pakistani cabinet announced plans to drop all corruption charges against former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
2 Oct. The President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf appointed General Ashfaq Kiyani to succeed him as the head of the Pakistan Army after Saturday's election.
2 Oct. War in Iraq: The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown made his first visit to Iraq, where he announced the withdrawal of 1,000 troops.
2 Oct. War in Afghanistan: A suicide bomber blew himself up near a bus carrying policemen killing at least 11 in Kabul.
2 Oct. The President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun walked across the Korean Demilitarized Zone in travelling to Pyongyang for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
2 Oct. 2007 Burmese anti-government protests: United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari mets with Burmese General Than Shwe to tell him to stop the killing of dissidents. Gambari later mets with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi with growing fear about the wellbeing of approximately 1000 dissidents held in a warehouse in the Government Technical Institute in Rangoon.
3 Oct. The United States and Russia signed a pact to use Russian technology on NASA missions to hunt for water on the moon and Mars.
3 Oct. United States President George W. Bush vetoeed an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
3 Oct. Edward Pietrzyk, the Polish ambassador to Iraq, was hurt and his bodyguard was killed by a bomb attack in Baghdad.
3 Oct. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says that the corruption charges against her had not been dropped, and that Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad's announcement was part of a disinformation campaign.
3 Oct. Lal Masjid mosque opened to the public three months after being seized by the Pakistani army.
3 Oct. 2007 Pacific typhoon season: Vietnam evacuated 400,000 people from the provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh ahead of Severe Tropical Storm Lekima (Hanna). Two people died and hundreds of houses collapsed when the storm struck.
3 Oct. North Korea: The President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun and the leader of North Korea Kim Jong-Il commenced talks in Pyongyang. Kim Jong-Il proposes to extend the talks by one day, but Roh Moo-hyun declined. At the six-party talks in Beijing, North Korea agreed to fully shut down its nuclear program by the end of the year.
1 Oct. Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007: With 70 percent counted, Timoshenko's bloc and Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party had 48 percent of the vote. Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's party and his Communist and Socialist allies had 36.8 percent.
1 Oct. President of Russia Vladimir Putin announced he would run on his party's list in the parliamentary elections in December and that he does not exclude the option of becoming Prime Minister of Russia after the election.
2 Oct. Pakistan: The Pakistani cabinet announced plans to drop all corruption charges against former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
2 Oct. The President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf appointed General Ashfaq Kiyani to succeed him as the head of the Pakistan Army after Saturday's election.
2 Oct. Israel confirmed it conducted an airstrike on Syria on September 6.
2 Oct. War in Iraq: The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown made his first visit to Iraq, where he announced the withdrawal of 1,000 troops.
2 Oct. The President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun walked across the Korean Demilitarized Zone in travelling to Pyongyang for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
2 Oct. 2007 Burmese anti-government protests: United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari mets with Burmese General Than Shwe to tell him to stop the killing of dissidents. Gambari later mets with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi with growing fear about the wellbeing of approximately 1000 dissidents held in a warehouse in the Government Technical Institute in Rangoon.
3 Oct. United States President George W. Bush vetoeed an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
3 Oct. Edward Pietrzyk, the Polish ambassador to Iraq, was hurt and his bodyguard was killed by a bomb attack in Baghdad.
3 Oct. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says that the corruption charges against her had not been dropped, and that Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad's announcement was part of a disinformation campaign.
3 Oct. North Korea: The President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun and the leader of North Korea Kim Jong-Il commenced talks in Pyongyang. Kim Jong-Il proposes to extend the talks by one day, but Roh Moo-hyun declined. At the six-party talks in Beijing, North Korea agreed to fully shut down its nuclear program by the end of the year.
Local government is not much mentioned at this scale.
National government includes numerous developments.
1 Oct. Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007: With 70 percent counted, Timoshenko's bloc and Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party had 48 percent of the vote. Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's party and his Communist and Socialist allies had 36.8 percent.
1 Oct. President of Russia Vladimir Putin announced he would run on his party's list in the parliamentary elections in December and that he does not exclude the option of becoming Prime Minister of Russia after the election.
2 Oct. Pakistan: The Pakistani cabinet announced plans to drop all corruption charges against former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
2 Oct. The President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf appointed General Ashfaq Kiyani to succeed him as the head of the Pakistan Army after Saturday's election.
2 Oct. Israel confirmed it conducted an airstrike on Syria on September 6.
2 Oct. War in Iraq: The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown made his first visit to Iraq, where he announced the withdrawal of 1,000 troops.
2 Oct. War in Afghanistan: A suicide bomber blew himself up near a bus carrying policemen killing at least 11 in Kabul.
2 Oct. The President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun walked across the Korean Demilitarized Zone in travelling to Pyongyang for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
2 Oct. 2007 Burmese anti-government protests: United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari mets with Burmese General Than Shwe to tell him to stop the killing of dissidents. Gambari later mets with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi with growing fear about the wellbeing of approximately 1000 dissidents held in a warehouse in the Government Technical Institute in Rangoon.
3 Oct. The United States and Russia signed a pact to use Russian technology on NASA missions to hunt for water on the moon and Mars.
3 Oct. United States President George W. Bush vetoeed an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
3 Oct. Edward Pietrzyk, the Polish ambassador to Iraq, was hurt and his bodyguard was killed by a bomb attack in Baghdad.
3 Oct. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says that the corruption charges against her had not been dropped, and that Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad's announcement was part of a disinformation campaign.
3 Oct. Lal Masjid mosque opened to the public three months after being seized by the Pakistani army.
3 Oct. 2007 Burmese anti-government protests: The State Peace and Development Council released 80 Buddhist monks and 149 Buddhist nuns. United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari left the country, while arrests and intimidation of demonstrators continued.
3 Oct. 2007 Pacific typhoon season: Vietnam evacuated 400,000 people from the provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh ahead of Severe Tropical Storm Lekima (Hanna). Two people died and hundreds of houses collapsed when the storm struck.
3 Oct. North Korea: The President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun and the leader of North Korea Kim Jong-Il commenced talks in Pyongyang. Kim Jong-Il proposes to extend the talks by one day, but Roh Moo-hyun declined. At the six-party talks in Beijing, North Korea agreed to fully shut down its nuclear program by the end of the year.
International government is far less concerned with traditional empires or colonial empires than with modern compacts.
2 Oct. 2007 Burmese anti-government protests: United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari mets with Burmese General Than Shwe to tell him to stop the killing of dissidents. Gambari later met with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi with growing fear about the wellbeing of approximately 1000 dissidents held in a warehouse in the Government Technical Institute in Rangoon.
3 Oct. The United States and Russia signed a pact to use Russian technology on NASA missions to hunt for water on the moon and Mars.
3 Oct. 2007 Burmese anti-government protests: The State Peace and Development Council released 80 Buddhist monks and 149 Buddhist nuns. United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari left the country, while arrests and intimidation of demonstrators continued.
3 Oct. North Korea: The President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun and the leader of North Korea Kim Jong-Il commenced talks in Pyongyang. Kim Jong-Il proposes to extend the talks by one day, but Roh Moo-hyun declined. At the six-party talks in Beijing, North Korea agreed to fully shut down its nuclear program by the end of the year.
4 Oct. United States Republican Party Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico announced that he would retire at the end of his current term due to a degenerative brain disease.
16 Oct. Libya, Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Croatia and Costa Rica are elected to the United Nations Security Council as non-permanent members.
Religious belief, practices, organization, and particular religions including pagan religion, Asiatic religion, Abrahamic religion, and secularism can be considered.
1 Oct. Pope Benedict XVI replaced Archbishop Piero Marini, the longtime director of office of papal liturgies, with Father Guido Marini of the Genoa archdiocese.
3 Oct. Lal Masjid mosque opened to the public three months after being seized by the Pakistani army.
3 Oct. 2007 Burmese anti-government protests: The State Peace and Development Council released 80 Buddhist monks and 149 Buddhist nuns. United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari left the country, while arrests and intimidation of demonstrators continued.
6 Oct. Henry B. Eyring was named to the First Presidency, and Quentin L. Cook was called as an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 177th Semi-Annual General Conference.
11 Oct. A group of 138 prominent Muslim clerics and scholars sent an open letter to Pope Benedict XVI and other Christian leaders, calling for greater understanding between the two faiths.
17 Oct. Pope Benedict XVI announced he would create twenty-three new members of the College of Cardinals in the consistory of November 24.
Social structure and change including social structure and social types will be useful in examining this period. Social change including factors of change, processes, and particular changes can also be used. Communities such as Cairo, Calcutta are being connected to the nations they belong to. Peoples of the world are more useful. Particular nations can be examined, [including Poland, Tanzania].
A major grouping of events is according to divisions of Asiatic peoples such as those of Myanmar. Cities include Jakarta.
Middle Eastern peoples including those of Iran have numerous events.
2 Oct. Israel confirmed it conducted an airstrike on Syria on September 6.
2 Oct. War in Iraq: The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown made his first visit to Iraq, where he announced the withdrawal of 1,000 troops.
2 Oct. War in Afghanistan: A suicide bomber blew himself up near a bus carrying policemen killing at least 11 in Kabul.
3 Oct. Edward Pietrzyk, the Polish ambassador to Iraq, was hurt and his bodyguard was killed by a bomb attack in Baghdad.
5 Oct. War in Iraq: United States forces killed at least 25 members of a Shiite militia in a firefight.
5 Oct. Saudi Arabia announced that it would overhaul its judicial system including the creation of a supreme court, an appeals court and new general courts to replace the Supreme Judicial Council.
6 Oct. War in Afghanistan: A suicide bomb attack on a United States convoy in Kabul killed a U.S. soldier and five civilians.
7 Oct. A Syrian military plane crashed near Damascus, killing all three on board.
7 Oct. War in Afghanistan: Sixteen militants fighting under wanted Uzbek warlord Tahir Yuldash were killed in eastern Afghanistan.
9 Oct. War in Iraq: Employees of Australian-owned security firm Unity Resources Group opened fire on a car in Baghdad killing two Iraqi women. Twin blasts in the town of Baiji killed at least eight people and injureed dozens more.
10 Oct. Taliban freed one German and four Afghan hostages kidnapped in mid-July.
10 Oct. Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, spelled out his conditions for a peace deal with Israel prior to a conference in Annapolis, Maryland next month.
13 Oct. At least nine people died and 8 people went missing as a result of torrential rain in and around Tunis, the capital of Tunisia.
14 Oct. The Attorney-General of Israel launched a third criminal inquiry into the behaviour of the Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert before he was Prime Minister: the latest inquiry is into granting political favours as Trade Minister.
20 Oct. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani criticized Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for his support of a possible Turkish attack against Kurdistan Workers Party fighters in the Iraqi Kurdistan.
20 Oct. Saeed Jalili replaced Ali Larijani as Iran's nuclear negotiator.
22 Oct. France and Morocco agreed to a deal to build a high-speed rail link between Tangiers and Marrakech.
22 Oct. Al-Jazeera broadcast an audiotape purporting to be from Osama bin Laden calling on Al-Qaeda in Iraq and other Sunni militants to unite forces.
25 Oct. Ehud Barak, the Defense Minister of Israel, approved a plan to cut off supplies of electricity to the Gaza Strip which has been recently declared as "hostile territory".
27 Oct. War in Afghanistan: United States led coalition forces killed 80 Taliban fighters outside Musa Qala in Helmand province. A suicide bomber exploded a bomb outside a United States base in eastern Afghanistan killing four Afghan soldiers and a civilian.
28 Oct. Israel reduced the flow of oil to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
29 Oct. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia claims the Government of the United Kingdom failed to act on intelligence given to it by the Government of Saudi Arabia which could have prevented the 7 July 2005 London bombings.
29 Oct. The Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert announced that he has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer.
Egypt at present has no recorded events.
11 Oct. An AMC Airlines MD-83 made an emergency belly landing at the Atatürk International Airport, overshooting the runway. There was one injury, and the plane was badly damaged.
11 Oct. Turkey recalled its ambassador to the United States due to anger over an upcoming House of Representatives vote on recognizing the Armenian Genocide.
17 Oct. 2007 Turkish offensive on Iraqi territories against Kurdish rebels: The Turkish Grand National Assembly approved a government request for their troops to cross the Iraqi border to attack Kurdish rebels.
21 Oct. Kurdistan Workers Party militants killed at least 12 Turkish soldiers and wounded 11 others on Sunday in a cross-border attack in mountains near the Iraqi border, security sources said.
21 Oct. Turkish people voted in favor of a constitutional referendum on electoral reform with a 69% majority.
22 Oct. The Kurdistan Workers Party declared a unilateral ceasefire following an attack on Turkish forces.
24 Oct. Turkey-PKK conflict Reuters reported that Turkish forces launched an attack on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) positions in northern Iraq earlier in the week killing 34 PKK fighters. Turkish warplanes attacked a village near Shiranish Islam in Kurdistan.
28 Oct. The Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert apologized to the Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan for possibly violating Turkish airspace.
South Asian peoples such as those of Bangladesh have significant events. Cities include Delhi
4 Oct. Bangladesh Supreme Court denied bail to former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in a corruption and extortion cases against her.
5 Oct. Elections for a Nepalese Constituent Assembly were delayed as the Seven Party Alliance of ruling parties and the former Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) rebels failed to break a deadlock over the republic issue and the voting system to be used.
13 Oct. Four people were killed and over 50 injured when rear carriages of Probhati Express derails near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
22 Oct. At least 25 were killed when Tamil Tiger fighters attacked a Sri Lankan air force base in the Anuradhapura district with heavy fighting reported.
26 Oct. UN Security Council urged Nepal to set early date for Constituent Assembly election.
29 Oct. An earthquake with magnitude of five on Richter scale shook central Nepal.
India, including its city of Bombay
4 Oct. India asked neighboring Myanmar to free Aung San Suu Kyi.
8 Oct. H D Kumaraswamy resigned as Chief Minister of the Indian state of Karnataka. Governor Rameshwar Thakur was likely to recommend presidential rule till further elections.
10 Oct. Tibetan exiles stormed the embassy of the People's Republic of China in New Delhi to protest the lack of religious freedom in China.
11 Oct. At least one person was killed and 8 were injured when a bomb setup in a tiffin box blasted in the shrine of Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti in Ajmer, India.
14 Oct. A bomb exploded in a movie theatre in Ludhiana in India's Punjab state killing at least six people and wounding at least 30 others.
16 Oct. The Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh advised the President of the United States George W. Bush that India is unlikely to sign a pact with the United States on civil nuclear cooperation.
17 Oct. Trading on the Bombay Stock Exchange's BSE Sensex was briefly suspended after a 9% decline in the market.
28 Oct. Apparel manufacturer Gap Inc. convened all of its Indian suppliers to "forcefully reiterate" its prohibition on child labor after The Observer found children as young as 10 making clothing for it in a New Delhi sweatshop.
31 Oct. Police in India's Meghalaya state said they have killed five tribal separatists in the capital of Shillong.
1 Oct. At least 15 people were killed and 19 others injured in a suspected suicide bomb blast in Bannu in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province.
2 Oct. Pakistan: The Pakistani cabinet announced plans to drop all corruption charges against former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
2 Oct. The President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf appointed General Ashfaq Kiyani to succeed him as the head of the Pakistan Army after Saturday's election.
3 Oct. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says that the corruption charges against her had not been dropped, and that Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad's announcement was part of a disinformation campaign.
3 Oct. Lal Masjid mosque opened to the public three months after being seized by the Pakistani army.
6 Oct. Pervez Musharraf won the Pakistani Presidential Election in unofficial results. The announcement of the official result was to be withheld until a Supreme Court verdict was made on the legality of his candidacy.
7 Oct. Pro-Taliban militants captured 28 Pakistan soldiers in the North Waziristan tribal region.
8 Oct. Pakistan: A helicopter escorting the helicopter of President Pervez Musharraf crashed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, killing four security officials and injuring his spokesman.
8 Oct. Forty five Pakistani soldiers and 130 pro-Taliban militants had died in two days of fierce fighting in North Waziristan, the Pakistani army said.
9 Oct. Pakistan - Battle of Mir Ali: 20 people were injured in Peshawar, Pakistan, when a bomb ripped through a music shop. At least sixty people were killed as Pakistani aircraft bomb a bazaar in Epi village in North Waziristan.
18 Oct. Return of Benazir Bhutto: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan after eight years of self-exile, with a crowd of a million expected in Karachi to welcome her back.
18 Oct. 2007 Karachi bombings: At least 138 people were killed and 600 injured as two bombs exploded near a truck carrying Benazir Bhutto.
19 Oct. 2007 Karachi bombings: The death toll from the bombings rose to 136 with 387 people wounded.
20 Oct. Karachi police released a photograph of the suicide bomber who killed at least 130 people in the 2007 Karachi bombings.
20 Oct. At least seven people died in a bomb blast in the town of Dera Bugti in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. (BBC)
22 Oct. The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) demanded general elections in Pakistan in two months time.
23 Oct. Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz rejected demand for probe by foreign experts in recent Karachi suicide bombings.
24 Oct. The Pakistan People's Party claimed that its leader, former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, had been forbidden to leave the country.
25 Oct. 30 were killed in a powerful explosion near the police lines in Mingora in Swat, Pakistan
30 Oct. Six people were killed and 11 injured in a suicide bomb attack near Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi.
A few events are connected to Central Asian peoples including some of those of China and Russia.
21 Oct. Kyrgyz people went to the polls to vote on a constitutional referendum called by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
21 Oct. Soyuz TMA-10 landed safely outside Arkalyk, 340 kilometers (211 mi) short of the planned landing site in Kazakhstan, due to a computer glitch.
22 Oct. The 2007 Kyrgyzstani constitutional referendum was approved by about 75% of voters. President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev dissolved the parliament and announced a snap legislative election will take place in December 2007, which he will contest with his newly founded party Ak Zhol.
23 Oct. Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed a decree dissolving the parliament, moving to strengthen his control after voters overwhelmingly approved constitutional changes in a referendum called by the president.
29 Oct. The UK embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, was closed as a precaution after a terrorist attack in the city was prevented. The US embassy also closed its doors after the Azerbaijan Government reported of the thwarting of a "large-scale, horrifying terror attack."
Events among Oriental peoples including most of those of South Korea are significant. Cities include SeoulOsaka
2 Oct. The President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun walked across the Korean Demilitarized Zone in travelling to Pyongyang for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
3 Oct. North Korea: The President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun and the leader of North Korea Kim Jong-Il commenced talks in Pyongyang. Kim Jong-Il proposes to extend the talks by one day, but Roh Moo-hyun declined. At the six-party talks in Beijing, North Korea agreed to fully shut down its nuclear program by the end of the year.
4 Oct. North Korea and South Korea agreed to seek talks with the People's Republic of China and the United States to reach a permanent peace agreement to formally end the Korean War.
China including its city of Shanghai has numerous events.
2 Oct. 2007 Summer Special Olympics opened in Shanghai, China.
2 Oct. At least 27 people were killed when a bus caught fire in Chongqing, southwest China.
6 Oct. 2007 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Krosa hit Taiwan, killing at least four people and injuring 40 more. Typhoon Krosa later headed for the People's Republic of China, where 730,000 people were evacuated from Zhejiang and Fujian provinces.
7 Oct. 2007 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Krosa moved towards China's southern Zhejiang and northern Fujian provinces. The death toll from Severe Tropical Storm Lekima (Hanna) rose to 55.
15 Oct. The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opened in Beijing, China, marking the beginning of a 7-day conclave of China's top leadership. General Secretary Hu Jintao delivered the work report for the past five years, and sets the party's direction in the coming five years. Hu also said in the keynote speech that the Communist Party has "fallen short of the people's expectations".
21 Oct. A fire in an illegal shoe factory killed at least 34 people in Putian in Fujian province, China.
21 Oct. Three of the Peoples Republic of China's top politicians, namely, Vice-President Zeng Qinghong, anti-corruption chief Wu Guanzheng, and Luo Gan, were dropped from the Communist Party of China's Central Committee. Also retiring were Vice-Premier Wu Yi, Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan, and Defence Minister Cao Gangchuan. Hu's Scientific Development Concept was enshrined in the Party Constitution.
22 Oct. Four new members joined the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, China's de facto top power organ. They are Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang. President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao retained their seats.
24 Oct. China launched its first lunar orbiter, Chang'e 1, on an exploration mission to the moon.
25 Oct. Yang Jiechi, the foreign minister of China, met with Pranab Mukherjee, the Foreign Minister of India, to discuss India's aspirations to become a Permanent Member of the United Nations Security Council.
27 Oct. Yu Zhengsheng left his post as party chief of Hubei to replace newly promoted Politburo Standing Committee member Xi Jinping as Shanghai party chief.
29 Oct. People's Republic of China: The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China announced that new Politburo Standing Committee member Li Keqiang had left his post as party secretary of Liaoning and was succeeded by Liaoning Governor Zhang Wenyue. The Chinese government announced that it had arrested 774 people as part of a crackdown on the production of tainted drugs, food and agricultural products.
Japan with cities including Tokyo
5 Oct. SELENE, Japan's lunar probe, successfully achieved an orbit around the moon.
9 Oct. Japan extended sanctions against North Korea, citing a lack of progress in a dispute about the abduction of Japanese nationals.
Southeast Asian peoples including those of the Thailand can be connected.
2 Oct. 2007 Burmese anti-government protests: United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari mets with Burmese General Than Shwe to tell him to stop the killing of dissidents. Gambari later mets with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi with growing fear about the wellbeing of approximately 1000 dissidents held in a warehouse in the Government Technical Institute in Rangoon.
3 Oct. 2007 Burmese anti-government protests: The State Peace and Development Council released 80 Buddhist monks and 149 Buddhist nuns. United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari left the country, while arrests and intimidation of demonstrators continued.
4 Oct. A court case to challenge the overthrow of Laisenia Qarase's government of Fiji opens in Suva.
5 Oct. 2007 Burmese anti-government protests: Burmese security forces claimed that they were looking for four of the monks that led the protests. United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari briefed the Security Council on the situation in an open session.
8 Oct. 2007 Burmese anti-government protests: Burma's junta announced that Buddhist monasteries had accepted US$8000 as well as food and medicine from its soldiers to signify the armed forces have not left the faith.
13 Oct. Tens of thousands of people participated in a pro-government rally in Rangoon as Ibrahim Gambari, the United Nations envoy, returned to Southeast Asia.
14 Oct. Burma restored some Internet access but continuesdto deny access to foreign news services such as the BBC and CNN, blogs and dissident sites.
14 Oct. At least eight people including six tourists died when trapped by a flood in the Nam Talu cave in Khao Sok national park in southern Thailand.
15 Oct. Ibrahim Gambari, the United Nations special envoy to Myanmar, warned the Burmese government to stop arresting dissidents.
19 Oct. Thailand arrested suspected Canadian child molester Christopher Paul Neil after an international man hunt.
20 Oct. Myanmar's State Peace and Development Council lifted the curfew it imposed in Yangon and Mandalay on September 26.
21 Oct. Tokelauan ex-pats in Samoa went to the polls for the Tokelauan self-determination referendum.
22 Oct. Voters in Fakaofo went to the polls for the Tokelauan self-determination referendum.
25 Oct. The Tokelauan self-determination referendum failed by 16 votes.
26 Oct. The southern segment of the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway? in Singapore, set to be the longest subterranean road tunnel in Southeast Asia when fully complete, opened to traffic.
31 Oct. Buddhist monks returned to the streets of Burma for the first time since a crackdown on protests last month.
12 Oct. Indonesia and Australia commemorated the fifth anniversary of the 2002 Bali bombings.
18 Oct. At least four people were killed in three days of tribal warfare near the Grasberg mine in the Papua province of Indonesia.
19 Oct. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from villages near Mount Kelud on Java as the volcano threatened to erupt.
19 Oct. A ship sank off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia resulting in at least 31 deaths and 35 people missing.
22 Oct. An investigation concluded pilot error caused the crash of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 on March 7, killing 21 people.
25 Oct. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia approximately 135 kilometres south-west of Bengkulu.
5 Oct. Two bomb blasts in Kidapawan City, on Mindanao in the Philippines, killed a child and injured 36 people.
19 Oct. An explosion killed up to eight civilians at Glorietta Mall in Makati City, Philippines.
26 Oct. Former President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada was freed after receiving a pardon from the current President Gloria Arroyo.
3 Oct. 2007 Pacific typhoon season: Vietnam evacuated 400,000 people from the provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh ahead of Severe Tropical Storm Lekima (Hanna). Two people died and hundreds of houses collapsed when the storm struck.
Western Civilization including nations such as Argentina has a major grouping of peoples. Major cities include Los Angeles.
6 Oct. Danish police arrested more than 400 people in protests in Copenhagen over the closure of the Ungdomshuset youth centre earlier in the year.
14 Oct. After 25 centuries, the marbles of the Acropolis of Athens were cautiously moved to the New Acropolis Museum. (BBC)
15 Oct. Montenegrin Prime Minister Željko Šturanovic signed a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the European Union, saying that Montenegro is hoping to lodge an official application for EU membership in the first half of 2008.
19 Oct. EU leaders agreed in Lisbon that the transcription "e???" (evro) will be used in Bulgarian translations of the euro in official EU documents.
19 Oct. Leaders of the European Union reached agreement on the Lisbon Treaty following last-minute concessions to Poland, Italy and Bulgaria.
21 Oct. Voters went to the polls in Slovenia to elect a new President, with Lojze Peterle winning most votes but not a majority. A runoff between him and Danilo Türk was to be held on November 11.
22 Oct. Georgia and Slovakia offered to send troops to support the Australian/Dutch taskforce in the south of the Afghanistan as the Dutch government was under pressure to reduce troops.
24 Oct. Prime Minister of Denmark Anders Fogh Rasmussen calls early elections for 13 November 2007, less than three years after the last elections in early 2005.
28 Oct. Scandinavian Airlines decided to immediately and permanently discontinue services based on the use of its 24 Dash 8 Q400 a after a series of crash landings.
28 Oct. 2007 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Depression Sixteen formed 195 miles (310 kilometers) south-southeast of Port au Prince, Haiti. A tropical storm warning was issued for the southwestern peninsula of Haiti, and a tropical storm watch was issued for the southeastern coast of Cuba.
29 Oct. All banks and post offices in Borlänge, Sweden, were kept closed by the local police due to an "elevated risk level of bank robbery".
Anglic peoples including such nations as the United Kingdom have numerous events associated with them. Cities include New York City
2 Oct. War in Iraq: The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown made his first visit to Iraq, where he announced the withdrawal of 1,000 troops.
4 Oct. The Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper choose Mark Carney to succeed David Dodge as governor of the Bank of Canada.
4 Oct. Malcolm Turnbull, the Australian Federal Environment Minister, approved the Gunns Tamar Valley Pulp Mill but with an extensive list of conditions.
5 Oct. Canada stopped the sale of Novartis anti-inflammatory drug Prexige and canceled its authorisation due to the risk of liver-related effects such as hepatitis.
6 Oct. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown ruled out calling an early election.
6 Oct. Christopher John Worden, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable from Hay River, Northwest Territories, was shot and killed by an unknown assailant.
8 Oct. Australia suffered its first combat casualty in Afghanistan following the explosion of a bomb in the southern province of Oruzgan.
8 Oct. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown announced that Britain would cut its troop commitment in Iraq by half to 2,500 troops.
9 Oct. The British Government dropped plans to ban the mixing of sperm and eggs from different species.
9 Oct. The general election in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador gave the Conservative government of Premier Danny Williams an enlarged majority at the expense of the Liberals.
10 Oct. The general election in the Canadian province of Ontario gaves the Liberal government of Premier Dalton McGuinty an enlarged majority.
10 Oct. An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale was recorded just south of Katanning, Western Australia, and felt as far away as Perth, Western Australia.
11 Oct. The Prime Minister of Australia John Howard proposed a constitutional referendum recognising indigenous Australians in the Australian constitution, if he is reelected.
11 Oct. The British writer Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.
12 Oct. The Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper appointed a five-member advisory committee on Afghanistan to be chaired by John Manley of the opposition Liberal Party of Canada.
13 Oct. Flooding after several days of torrential rain kills at least 23 people in Haiti with the town of Cabaret being worst affected.
14 Oct. The Prime Minister of Australia John Howard askd the Governor-General of Australia Michael Jeffery to dissolve the Parliament of Australia and call an election on 24 November.
15 Oct. Sir Menzies Campbell resigned as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom, starting a leadership election.
15 Oct. William Street underground platforms and The Esplanade Station began service in Perth, Western Australia. Part of the New MetroRail project, they were the first stations to open on the new Mandurah Line.
15 Oct. Police raids were made across New Zealand under the Terrorism Suppression Act, with individuals supporting Maori sovereignty targeted, and arrested, for their alleged involvement in paramilitary activities. Activist Tame Iti was among those arrested.
15 Oct. Richard Brunstrom, the Chief Constable of North Wales Police, called for all classified drugs to be legalised in the United Kingdom. He argued that the current policy of prohibition is not working, and is based on dogma.
17 Oct. John Fahey, former Premier of New South Wales, is appointed as the President of the World Anti-Doping Agency.
17 Oct. Burmese activist and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was granted honorary citizenship by Canada.
17 Oct. Floyd Roland became the new Premier of the Northwest Territories, Canada.
18 Oct. The BBC announced 1,800 job cuts as part of restructuring to fill a £2 billion (US$4 bn) shortfall caused by lower than expected funding by the British government.
19 Oct. James D. Watson, who shared the 1962 Nobel prize for deciphering the double-helix of DNA, apologized for reported comments suggesting that black people, over all, are not as intelligent as whites.
19 Oct. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that his predecessor Tony Blair would be a "great candidate" to become the first President of the European Council after EU leaders agree on a new Reform Treaty for the union.
20 Oct. J.K. Rowling has revealed that Dumbledore of the Harry Potter books is homosexual.
23 Oct. Nike agrees to buy United Kingdom sportswear firm Umbro for £285m.
24 Oct. The United Kingdom announced a unilateral end to the Common Travel Area with the Republic of Ireland. From 2009, passports will be required for the first time, bringing to an end centuries of unimpeded travel between the two countries.
27 Oct. Curlin won the Breeders' Cup Classic at the Monmouth Park racecourse. In the same race, European star George Washington was euthanized after breaking down in the stretch.
29 Oct. One of two men alleged to be involved in a gay-sex-and-drugs blackmail plot against a minor member of the British Royal Family was to appear in court this week.
30 Oct. The New Zealand Cabinet was reshuffled, with three new ministers appointed, and two leaving Cabinet.
30 Oct. Tropical Storm Noel weakened after causing between 11 and 25 deaths in the Dominican Republic.
31 Oct. Police questioned Prince Harry over shooting of endangered Hen Harriers at the Royal Family's Sandringham House estate.
2 Oct. Five workers were trapped underground in an Xcel Energy hydroelectric plant near Georgetown, Colorado, United States due to a chemical fire. They were later found dead.
3 Oct. The United States and Russia signed a pact to use Russian technology on NASA missions to hunt for water on the moon and Mars.
3 Oct. United States President George W. Bush vetoed an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
4 Oct. United States Republican Party Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico announced that he would retire at the end of his current term due to a degenerative brain disease.
4 Oct. The recording industry won a key victory with a court in the U.S. state of Minnesota finding that a woman was liable for damages of $220,000 for sharing copyrighted music online through Kazaa.
4 Oct. Republican Party Senator Larry Craig from Idaho vowed to serve out his term in the United States Senate despite losing a court bid to rescind a guilty plea for an indecent act in a Minneapolis Airport men's room.
5 Oct. Topps Meat Company announced that it was going out of business as a result of recalling 21.7 million pounds of beef in the United States linked to 30 cases of E. coli-related illness.
6 Oct. Adventurer Jason Lewis of Expedition 360 completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
7 Oct. The United Auto Workers set a Wednesday deadline to reach a new four-year contract with Chrysler.
7 Oct. A sheriff's deputy shot dead six young people in Crandon, Wisconsin, United States. It was initially believed that he was killed by a police sniper after a manhunt, but is now believed to have committed suicide by multiple gunshots.
7 Oct. Record-setting temperatures cause the 2007 Chicago Marathon to shut down after only three and a half hours and after the race had a men's open division photo finish, a death, and sprint finishes in the women's open and men's wheelchair divisions.
7 Oct. U.S. college football: On the heels of last week's historic AP Poll shakeup, another one of comparable size occured, in which four Top Ten teams and eleven ranked teams overall moved down the list or off the poll entirely. LSU received first place from all 65 sports critics, the first time that has occurred for any team since December 2006. #2 California earned its highest rank since 1951, #4 Boston College earned its highest showing since 1984, and #5 South Florida continued its ascent after first moving into the AP Poll three weeks ago.
8 Oct. U.S. athlete Marion Jones returned the five medals she won at the Sydney Olympics and accepted a two-year ban from the sport after admitting to her use of a prohibited substance.
8 Oct. Washington plane crash: Air crews conducted search and rescue missions for an airplane carrying 8-10 passengers that was believed to have crashed in a mountainous area of the U.S. state of Washington 45 miles west of Yakima. The wreckage of a small plane carrying nine skydivers and the pilot was found in Washington with no sign of survivors.
9 Oct. The United States Supreme Court dismissed the case of the German citizen Khalid El-Masri who accused the CIA of abducting him to a secret prison in Afghanistan where he claims he was tortured. The US government had argued that a public trial would reveal state secrets.
10 Oct. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned consumers not to eat Banquet pot pies or other pot pies made by ConAgra with a printed code ending in C9 due to possible links with a salmonella outbreak.
10 Oct. The United Automobile Workers reached a tentative agreement with Chrysler shortly after workers commenced strike action.
10 Oct. The first Malaysian astronaut, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, and the first female space station commander, Peggy Whitson, were launched towards the International Space Station on board Soyuz TMA-11.
10 Oct. A 14-year-old high school student went on a shooting rampage in Cleveland, Ohio, wounding two teachers and two students before his death.
11 Oct. Mychal Bell of the Jena 6 was ordered to spend 18 months in a juvenile facility for violating probation for previous convictions.
12 Oct. Three people were dead at the Newhall Pass interchange on Interstate 5 just north of Los Angeles, California after thirty-one vehicles collided in a highway tunnel, closing the freeway entirely.
17 Oct. The Dalai Lama was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress; the decision was defended by George W. Bush.
18 Oct. Tornado touched down in Nappanee, Indiana @ 10:15 P.M. measured later @ EF3 (about 160mph winds) Damage to area factories and resteraunts as well as homes
19 Oct. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 369.1 points, or 2.7%, on the 20th anniversary of Black Monday.
19 Oct. Six people died as a result of storms in the midwestern United States and Washington state.
19 Oct. Two US Marines including a battalion commander were to face a court martial in connection with the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha in 2005.
19 Oct. Four United States Air Force officers were relieved of command following an investigation of an incident where live nuclear warheads were carried on a B-52 bomber from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
19 Oct. Sam Brownback, Senator for Kansas, pulled out of the United States presidential election, 2008 due to a lack of support and funds.
20 Oct. Bobby Jindal of the Republican Party was elected as the next Governor of Louisiana and became the first Indian American governor in the history of the United States. With 53% of the vote, he defeated five Democrats, a Libertarian and five independents without requiring a runoff.
21 Oct. Speaking at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, United States Vice President Dick Cheney stated: "The United States joins other nations in sending a clear message - we will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon."
21 Oct. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Cleveland Indians 11-2 winning the 2007 American League Championship Series and going on to meet the Colorado Rockies, the 2007 National League champions, in the 2007 World Series.
21 Oct. 2007 California fires: At least nine wildfires burned out of control in Southern California leading to the death of a San Diego man. Fire engulfed parts of Malibu, California leading to the evacuation of homes including those of James Cameron and Olivia Newton-John. The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in seven counties including Los Angeles, Orange County, Riverside, San Bernadino, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura County.
22 Oct. The President of the United States George W. Bush asked the United States Congress for $189.3 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
22 Oct. California wildfires of October 2007: At least a dozen wildfires burning throughout Southern California forced the evacuations of more than 250,000 residents. The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered the deployment of 1500 California National Guard members to help fight the fires. More than 600 homes were destroyed in the fires.
22 Oct. The United States dollar reached a new record low against the euro, which was traded at $1.4348.
23 Oct. Space Shuttle Discovery successfully lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the United States. The Shuttle was carrying the STS-120 crew on an assembly mission to the International Space Station, as well as the Harmony module.
23 Oct. California wildfires of October 2007: President George W. Bush declared that an "emergency exists" in areas of California and authorises the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate relief. Over 1,000,000 people were forced to evacuate in southern California due to the wildfires. More than 1,300 houses had been destroyed including 1,000 in San Diego County, California, alone. The death toll from the fires rose to five.
23 Oct. A United States Government report stated that the Department of State was unable to account for much of the $1.2 billion in funding that it gave to DynCorp International to train Iraqi police. (CNN)
24 Oct. Moderating winds improved the outlook in the fight against the California wildfires of October 2007.
24 Oct. Richard J. Griffin resigned as head of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security in the United States State Department following the Blackwater shooting in Iraq.
25 Oct. Supporters of a U.S. congressional resolution condemning the Armenian genocide drop called for a vote.
25 Oct. The death toll from the California wildfires of October 2007 rose to 12 as four bodies were discovered near the Mexican border.
25 Oct. The United States imposed economic sanctions against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard for its support of terrorism.
26 Oct. An explosion shook the Mexican consulate in New York City. The explosion was caused by two thrown hand grenades aided by additional explosive material. 7 injuries were reported, with several windows blown out and debris entering the building.
27 Oct. California wildfires: Some fires were reported in the Mexican state of Baja California, south of the U.S. border, but these were generally brought fairly swiftly under control.
27 Oct. The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger vows to personally "hunt down" those responsible for starting the fires.
28 Oct. The Boston Red Sox baseball team swept the Colorado Rockies to win the 2007 World Series.
29 Oct. The strain of HIV most common in the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia and much of South America was traced back to Haiti in 1969.
30 Oct. A moderate earthquake of 5.6 magnitude struck 9 miles northeast of San Jose, California.
30 Oct. The United States Supreme Court halted an execution in Mississippi pending its decision as to whether lethal injections are a form of cruel and unusual punishment.
30 Oct. The President of the United States George W. Bush nominated James Peake as the next United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
30 Oct. The United States Congress voted to extend a ban on Internet taxes for another seven years.
31 Oct. The United States Federal Reserve reduced short-term interest rates to 4.5 per cent, the second cut in three months.
31 Oct. The President of the United States George W. Bush nominated Fmr. Governor of North Dakota Ed Schafer for United States Secretary of Agriculture.
31 Oct. Los Angeles authorities revealed that a boy playing with matches caused one of the Los Angeles fires.
31 Oct. A United States district court blocked new patent rules relating to continuation practice at the USPTO, originally scheduled to take effect on November 1, 2007.
Latin peoples including those of Spain have significant events associated with them. Cities include Sao Paolo.
4 Oct. Family members of deceased de facto president of Chile Augusto Pinochet were arrested in Santiago on charges of embezzlement.
6 Oct. A collision between a train and a bus killed at least 28 people and injured over 70 in Cuba's eastern Granma province.
7 Oct. Costa Ricans approved CAFTA in a referendum with 52% of the votes.
9 Oct. Christian Von Wernich, a Roman Catholic priest and former police chaplain was sentenced to a life sentence for his role in torture, kidnapping and murder during Argentina's dirty war.
23 Oct. Thousands of Venezuelan students clash with riot police and supporters of President Hugo Chávez over proposals to remove term limits from the presidency.
23 Oct. An Argentine court initiated legal proceedings against former president Fernando de la Rúa for failing to prevent the deaths of five protestors during the December 2001 riots at the peak of the 1999-2002 economic crisis.
28 Oct. Voters in Argentina went to the polls for the 2007 general election. Exit polls show First Lady Cristina Fernández de Kirchner with a clear lead over Elisa Carrió.
29 Oct. Argentine general election, 2007: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was elected President of Argentina.
31 Oct. 21 of the 28 people accused over the 2004 Madrid train bombings were found guilty; four of them were charged with murder.
Brazil has no events yet associated with it.
Mexico including its city of Mexico City
24 Oct. A storm in the Gulf of Mexico killed 18 Mexican oil workers fleeing an oil rig, with Navy rescue teams trying to reach survivors.
7 Oct. Vandals punched a 10-cm (4") tear in the Claude Monet painting Le Pont d'Argenteuil at the Orsay Museum during Paris's annual Nuit Blanche all-night cultural festival.
9 Oct. The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy traveled to Moscow to meet with the President of Russia Vladimir Putin to discuss a broad range of policies including Kosovo, Chechnya, and Iran.
17 Oct. French public transport workers held a 24-hour strike protesting at changes to pensions.
18 Oct. French commuters faced chaos after a public transport strike over proposed changes to pensions of transit workers continue.
20 Oct. French trains resumed service after a two-day strike against President Nicolas Sarkozy's proposed welfare reform.
14 Oct. Three million Italians went to the polls to elect the leader of the new Democratic Party. The current Mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, won with about 75% of the votes.
20 Oct. Hundreds of thousands of left wing Italians marched in Rome putting increased pressure on the Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi.
12 Oct. At least 20 people died following a landslide at an open pit gold mine near Suarez in Colombia's Tolima department.
Northeast European peoples such as those of Ukraine are highly important.
1 Oct. Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007: With 70 percent counted, Timoshenko's bloc and Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party had 48 percent of the vote. Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's party and his Communist and Socialist allies had 36.8 percent.
3 Oct. Edward Pietrzyk, the Polish ambassador to Iraq, was hurt and his bodyguard was killed by a bomb attack in Baghdad.
10 Oct. Polish police evicted about 65 rebellious ex-nuns who had illegally occupied a convent in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, for more than two years in defiance of a Vatican order.
13 Oct. At least 11 people are dead and 23 more injured after a natural gas explosion in an apartment building in Dnipropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine.
21 Oct. Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski was conceding defeat as exit polls gave Donald Tusk's Civic Platform a large lead over his ruling nationalists in the parliamentary elections.
1 Oct. President of Russia Vladimir Putin announced he would run on his party's list in the parliamentary elections in December and that he does not exclude the option of becoming Prime Minister of Russia after the election.
4 Oct. Russia celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, which marked the start of the Space Race.
12 Oct. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin threatens to renounce the Cold War-era INF Treaty while calling on the United States to abandon a proposed European missile shield in talks with the United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defence Robert Gates.
14 Oct. The Interfax news agency reports that Russian security forces have received a warning of plans to assassinate the President of Russia Vladimir Putin in Iran.
20 Oct. Mikhail Gorbachev founded a new political party in Russia, called Union of Social-Democrats.
26 Oct. Leaders of the European Union and Russia met for their annual summit in Lisbon.
31 Oct. At least 8 people were killed and 53 were injured when militants bombed a bus in Togliatti, Russia.
Germanic peoples including those of Germany are also significant.
20 Oct. Riots erupted in the immigrant quarter of Amsterdam for the sixth night in succession after the death of a Moroccan man the previous weekend.
21 Oct. Swiss voters went to the polls for the Swiss federal election, 2007, with the right-wing Swiss People's Party set to win.
23 Oct. The European Court of Justice ruled against Germany's "Volkswagen Law" paving the way for Porsche to take over Volkswagen.
African peoples including those of Sudan have various events associated with them.
14 Oct. Voters in Togo went to the poll for the Togolese parliamentary election, 2007.
15 Oct. Battle of Las Anod: Troops from the breakaway Somali republic of Somaliland seized a town inside Puntland, a rival region loyal to the interim Somali government, killing at least 10 people.
17 Oct. The President of Sudan Omar Hassan al-Bashir approved a Cabinet reshuffle meeting one of the demands of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) who had earlier withdrawn participation in the government.
22 Oct. Joaquim Chissano won the inaugural Prize for Achievement in African Leadership for "his role in leading Mozambique from conflict to peace and democracy."
23 Oct. The government of Somalia freed Idris Osman, the head of the World Food Programme in Somalia, after six days in detention.
29 Oct. The USS Arleigh Burke entered Somali waters in pursuit of a Japanese ship carrying benzene that was hijacked by pirates.
29 Oct. Salim Aliyow Ibrow became Prime Minister of Somalia in the Transitional Federal Government as the embattled Ali Mohamed Ghedi resigned.
30 Oct. Patricia Etteh resigned as speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives amid accusations of corruption.
21 Oct. 2007 Ogaden conflict: A rebel group in eastern Ethiopia, the Ogaden National Liberation Front, said it had carried out an attack on government troops, killing 140 troops.
4 Oct. An Africa One Antonov An-26 cargo plane crashed into a residential area in Kinshasa, DR Congo.
20 Oct. Thousands fled a fresh outbreak of fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
27 Oct. At least 30 people were killed and 100 injured in flooding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
29 Oct. Kasereka Kabamba, a Mai Mai militia leader in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, surrendered to Nord-Kivu Army Chief Vainqueur Mayala. Kabamba maintained his forces fought against rebels loyal to Laurent Kabila, in the service of the government.
3 Oct. More than 3,000 gold miners were trapped underground in the Elandskraal mine at Elandsrand, northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, owned by Harmony Gold Mining.
4 Oct. A rescue operation began for 3,200 gold miners trapped in Elandsrand, South Africa. All of the miners were eventually rescued leading to wild celebrations.
American Indian peoples such as are found in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina have fewer events associated with them.
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