Events in October 2005
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Oct. 1
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The Sakhalin-I gasfields in far-east Russia, India’s single largest investment abroad begins oil and gas production. |
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Thirtytwo persons are killed in blasts on Jimbaran beach in Kuta, tourist areas of Indonesia’s resort island of Bali. |
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The New Zealand Prime Minister, Helen Clark wins a historic third term, after announcement of final results from the September 17 polls. |
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Gregory Oslen, of the U.S. becomes the third space tourist following the liftoff aboard a Russian Soyuz aircraft from Kazakhastan, to spend a 10 day holiday on the ISS costing $20 million. |
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The Ilamatepec volcano in El Salvador erupts for the first time in a century. |
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Oct. 2
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Typhoon Longwang kills 50 persons in China. |
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Oct. 3
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India, Pakistan, sign an accord on pre-notification of ballistic missile tests. |
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Australians Barry J. Marshall and Robin Warren win the 2005 Nobel prize in medicine for their 1982 discovery that bacteria not stress caused gastritis and peptic ulcers. |
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Oct. 4
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The India-Pakistan Joint Commission is revived after 16 years. |
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Americans Roy J. Glauber and John L. Hall and Germany’s Theodor W. Haensch bag the 2005 Physics Nobel prize for their work in the field of optics. |
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India’s first heavy ion Radio Frequency Quadruple accelerator is commissioned in Kolkata. |
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The U.S. launches offensive codenamed River Gate in western Iraq to reclaim towns from militants. |
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Hurricane Stan slams Mexico’s oil-rich Gulf coast killing 58 persons. |
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Oct. 5
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Yves Chauvin of France and Americans Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock bag the Nobel Chemistry Prize for a breakthrough in carbon chemistry, opening the way to smarter drugs. |
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Fifty persons are killed in Solola town in Guatemala in a mudslide triggered when the side of the San Lucas volcano gives way. With this the hurricane Stan toll in southern Mexico and Central America touches 250. |
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The U.S. Senate passes an amendment to a $440-billion defence spending bill barring soldiers from abusing detenus. |
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Ugandan-born John Sentamu takes post as the first black Archbishop at a ceremony in London. |
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Oct. 6
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Twentysix persons are killed after a rainstorm triggers a landslide in the Colombian Shanty town of Bello. |
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Oct. 7
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The IAEA and its chief Mohamed El Baradei get the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. |
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Oct. 8
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At least 40,000 people are killed and 62,000 injured as a powerful earthquake rocks large parts of Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. In the North West Frontier Province 400 school children die. |
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Oct. 9
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Poles cast votes in presidential polls. |
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The toll in Guatemala goes up to 500, while the hurricane leaves 71 dead in El Salvador, 28 in Mexico. |
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Oct. 10
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German leaders arrive at an agreement paving the way for Angela Merkel to take over as the nation’s first woman Chancellor. |
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Robert J. Aumann, an Israeli-U.S. citizen, and American Thomas C. Schelling win the 2005 Nobel Economics Prize for using game theory to explain conflict resolution. |
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Irish writer John Banville bags the £50,000 2005 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. |
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Oct. 11
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At least 30 persons are killed in an attack at a crowded market in Tal Afar, Iraq. |
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Oct. 12
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China launches its $2.3 billion second manned space flight Shenzou VI carrying taikonauts Col. Fei Junglong and Col. Nie Haisheng from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, on the Gobi desert in Gansu Province. |
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India sends a plane-load of relief materials to Pakistan. |
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A suicide bomber kills 30 persons at an Iraqi army recruitment centre in Tal Afar.Oct. 12; Syrian Interior Minister, Ghazi Kanaan, commits suicide in Damascus. |
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Oct. 13
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British playwright Harold Pinter (75), wins the 2005 Nobel Literature Prize. |
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At least 50 persons are killed as Islamist militants raid the Caucasian city of Nalchik in Russia. |
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Oct. 14
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The Japanese Parliament approves bills to privatise Japan Post. |
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The Pakistan Government calls off rescue operations in quake-hit areas. |
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English actor Daniel Craig is named the next James Bond. |
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Oct. 15
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More than 60 per cent of Iraqis cast their votes in a referendum on the draft Constitution. |
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China announces completion of the highest-elevation Qinghai-Tibet railway that goes 1,956 km from Xining to Lhasa. |
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The European Commission issues a vaccine alert following the detection of the H5N1 bird flu strain in Turkish poultry. Sixty persons have died in Asia since 2003. |
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Oct. 16
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Romania kills thousands of domestic birds in the Danube delta region to prevent the spread of avian flu. |
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Seventy militants are killed in American air strikes in the Ramadi region of western Iraq. |
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The seventh G-20 meeting in Xianghe, China, agrees on a roadmap to reform the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. |
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Oct. 17
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China’s second manned space mission ends successfully with the re-entry of the Shenzou VI capsule after a 115-hour-and-32 minute flight in Siziwang county. |
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India and the U.S. sign an umbrella agreement on cooperation in science and technology, in Washington. The pact establishes, for the first time, the IPR protocols. |
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Oct. 18
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The European Union declares bird flu a global threat even as Greece confirms its first case following outbreaks in Romania and Turkey. |
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The football star George Weah faces a runoff as the Liberian poll panel schedules fresh elections for November 8. |
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The Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, proposes the opening of the LoC to allow people to assist in quake relief. |
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Oct. 19
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The trial of former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein and seven others for ordering the killing of 143 Shias in Dujail town in 1982 opens in a Baghdad court. Saddam pleads innocence and challenges legitimacy of the court. |
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Russia, China report outbreak of bird flu. |
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Oct. 20
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Hurricane Wilma roars towards Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula leaving 13 dead in its wake in Haiti and Jamaica and forcing the evacuation of thousands in coastal areas from Honduras to the Florida Keys. |
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, founder of Russian oil giant Yukos, is sent to a Siberian prison colony to serve the rest of his eight-year jail term for financial crimes. |
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A U.N. panel probing the assassination of the former Lebanese Premier, Rafiq Hariri, puts Syria and Lebanon in the dock for collusion and bid to mislead the investigation. |
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Sadoun Nasouaf al-Janabi, a defence lawyer involved in the Saddam trial is found shot dead behind a mosque in Baghdad. |
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A convention on cultural diversity to combat the homogenising effect of cultural globalisation is adopted at the UNESCO’s Paris headquarters. |
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Oct. 21
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Hurrican Wilma slams into the Mexican resort island of Cozumel and Cuba evacuates 370,000 people. |
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The toll in the quake in Pakistan and PoK goes up to 51,300 and those injured number 74,500. |
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DNA tests confirm the death of Gunther Messner brother of the mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner in an avalanche in 1980 putting the lid on a row. |
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Oct. 22
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A Nigerian airliner with 117 passengers crashes in a cocoa groove soon after takeoff from Lagos. |
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Sea water inundates the Mexican resort city of Cancun as Hurricane Wilma whips up a storm surge. |
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Bird flu cases are detected in Britain and Russia. China destroys 91,000 birds. Ukraine slaps a six-month ban on poultry imports. |
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Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk is awarded the German Peace Prize. |
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Oct. 23
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Brazilians vote decisively to keep gun sale legal. |
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Oct. 24
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Seventeen persons are killed after three car bombs rock hotels around Firdous Square in Central Baghdad. |
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Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi completes ten years in detention. |
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The U.S. President, George W. Bush, nominates Ben Shalom Bernanke as the next Chief of the Federal Reserve (Fed). |
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Oct. 25
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Polish conservatives led by President-elect Lech Kaczynski sweep the polls. |
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The first post-Saddam Iraqi Constitution is passed by a simple majority, as per results of the October 15 referendum. |
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Oct. 26
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The Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad openly calls for Israel to be "wiped off the map" at a conference in Teheran. |
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India announces a Rs. 112.45-crore assistance for relief of the October 8 quake victims in Pakistan at a meet organised by a U.N. body in Geneva. |
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Oct. 27
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Israel declares all-out war on Islamic Jihad launching airstrikes on its Gaza Strip stronghold following a suicide attack a day earlier that killed five persons. |
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Students from more than 200 universities across Europe launch the SSETI Express satellite from a Russian cosmodrome. |
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The Paul Volcker panel probing the $64 billion U.N. oil-for-food programme in Iraq unearths a $1.8-billion fraud involving more than 2,200 firms from 66 countries, in its final report. |
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Violence erupts in Paris following the accidental deaths of two teenagers fleeing police identity checks. |
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Oct. 28
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The U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff, I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby Jr., quits after a grand jury indicts him for perjury in a case involving the leak of a CIA covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson’s identity in 2003. |
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Oct. 30
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India and Pakistan agree to open five points on the Line of Control to enable people to take part in earthquake relief work. |
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Hurricane Beta hits Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast sending thousands fleeing. |
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People cast votes in Zanzibar presidential polls. |
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