Portal:Current events/October 2006/Sidebar

Events

Ongoing 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 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Isaac North Indian cyclone season Pacific hurricane season Pacific typhoon season Typhoon Xangsane Southern Hemisphere cyclone season

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

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

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

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

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