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October 2006
Events
Ongoing
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Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak
Belgian False Flag Terror arrests
Benedict XVI Islam controversy
Black sites scandal
Cole Inquiry
East Timor military and political crisis
Immigration law debates in the US
Iran's nuclear program
NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
Operación Puerto doping case
Taiwan political crisis
Natural disasters
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Atlantic hurricane season
Hurricane Isaac
North Indian cyclone season
Pacific hurricane season
Pacific typhoon season
Typhoon Xangsane
Southern Hemisphere cyclone season
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Deaths
1
:
Peter Osgood
2
:
Helen Chenoweth-Hage
3
:
Peter Norman
4
:
R.W. Apple, Jr.
6
:
Buck O'Neil
7
:
Anna Politkovskaya
9
:
Paul Hunter
9
:
Glenn Myernick
11
:
Cory Lidle
12
:
Gillo Pontecorvo
14
:
Freddy Fender
14
:
Gerry Studds
16
:
Valentín Paniagua
16
:
Lister Sinclair
17
:
Christopher Glenn
19
:
Ralph Harris
20
:
Eric Newby
20
:
Jane Wyatt
21
:
Paul Walters
22
:
Choi Kyu-hah
26
:
Pontus Hultén
27
:
Joe Niekro
28
:
Henry Fok
28
:
Red Auerbach
28
:
Trevor Berbick
29
:
Mohammadu Maccido
29
:
Si Simmons
30
:
Clifford Geertz
31
:
P.W. Botha
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Armed conflicts
Acholiland insurgency
Arab-Israeli conflict
(
al-Aqsa Intifada
)
2006 Israel-Gaza conflict
2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
Darfur conflict
in
Sudan
Sri Lankan Civil War
Iraq War
Ituri conflict
in the
DR Congo
Ivorian Civil War
Nepal Civil War
Second Chechen War
South Thailand insurgency
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Elections
1
:
Austria
,
Legislative
1
:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
,
General Election
1
:
Brazil
,
General Election
7
:
Latvia
,
Parliament
8
:
Belgium
,
Municipal
15
:
Greece
,
Municipal
15
:
Ecuador
,
General Elections
22
:
Bulgaria
,
President
22
:
Panama
,
Panama Canal expansion Referendum
28
,
29
:
Serbia
,
Referendum on Constitution
October 29
:
Brazil
,
General Elections
(2nd round)
October 29
:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
,
Presidential
Run-off
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Trials
Peru:
Alberto Fujimori
(extradition)
Chile:
Augusto Pinochet
Ethiopia: 111 defendants, including leaders of the
CUD
and journalists, on charges related to the
2005 elections
.
Iraq:
Iraqi Special Tribunal
Saddam Hussein
& military chiefs of staff
Netherlands:
ICC
Thomas Lubanga
Netherlands:
ICTY
Sierra Leone:
SCfSL
Charles Taylor
UK:
Leo O'Connor & David Keogh
U.S.:
Brian Nichols
U.S.:
Jeffrey Skilling
(sentencing)
U.S.:
Tom DeLay
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Holidays and observances
1
:
Yom Kippur
(
Judaism
, begins at sunset)
2
:
Gandhi Jayanti
(
India
)
2
:
Dussera
(
India
)
2
:
Labour Day
(
New South Wales
,
Australian Capital Territory
,
South Australia
)
3
:
German Unity Day
(
Germany
)
4
:
World Animal Day
5
:
World Teachers' Day
5
:
Republic Day
(
Portugal
)
6
:
German-American Day
(
United States
)
6
:
Mid-Autumn Festival
(
Chinese lunar calendar
)
6
:
Sukkot
begins at sunset
(
Judaism
)
9
:
Hangul Day
(
South Korea
)
9
:
Health and Sports Day
(
Japan
)
9
:
Thanksgiving
(
Canada
)
9
:
Leif Erikson Day
(
United States
)
9
:
Columbus Day
(
United States
)
10
:
Double Tenth Day
(
Taiwan
)
11
:
General Pulaski Memorial Day
(
United States
)
11
:
National Coming Out Day
(
United States
)
12
:
Hispanic Day
(
Spain
)
12
:
Day of Indigenous Resistance
(
Venezuela
)
12
:
Children's Day
(
Brazil
)
12
:
Our Lady Aparecida's Day
(
Brazil
)
13
:
Shemini Atzeret
begins at sunset
(
Judaism
)
14
:
Simchat Torah
begins at sunset
(
Judaism
)
14
:
Teachers' Day
(
Poland
)
15
:
White Cane Safety Day
(
United States
)
16
:
World Food Day
17
:
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
18
:
Alaska Day
(
Alaska
)
19
:
Mother Teresa Day
(
Albania
)
20
:
Birth of the Báb
(
Bahá'í calendar
)
20
:
Al-Quds Day
(
Iran
)
21
:
Diwali
(
Hinduism
)
21
:
Trafalgar Day
(
United Kingdom
,
Australia
)
21
:
Sweetest Day
(
United States
)
22
:
International Stuttering Awareness Day
23
:
Chulalongkorn
Memorial Day
(
Thailand
)
23
:
Eid ul-Fitr
begins at sunset
(
Islam
, est.)
23
:
Labour Day
(
New Zealand
)
24
:
United Nations Day
25
:
Armed Forces Day
(
Romania
)
25
:
Retrocession Day
(
Taiwan
)
25
:
Republic Day
(
Kazakhstan
)
26
:
Angam Day
(
Nauru
)
26
:
National Day
(
Austria
)
28
:
Okhi Day
(
Greece
)
29
:
Republic Day
(
Turkey
)
30
:
Double Ninth Festival
(
Chinese lunar calendar
)
31
:
Reformation Day
(
Protestantism
)
31
:
Halloween
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