Events in October 2007
Oct. 2: Sri Lanka’s Christopher Weeramantry, Dekha Ibrahim Abdi of Kenya, Percy and Lousie Schmeiser of Canada and Bangladesh’s Grameen Shakti organisation are named winners of the 2007 Right Livelihood Awards, often called the Alternative Nobel Prize.
The United Nations marks Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday as the first International Day of Non-Violence. Oct.3: North Korea agrees to disable its main atomic reactor by the end of the year according to a six-nation agreement.
For the first time since 1947 a truck with goods from Pakistan moves across the Wagah border.
Oct 4: The two Koreas agree to resolve the unification issue on their own initiative after two days of talks in Pyongyang between Presidents Kim Jong-il and Roh Moo-hyon.
Oct.5: Nepal’s coalition government decides to suspend the November 22 Constituent Assembly election.
Oct.6: General Pervez Musharraf sweeps to victory in Presidential polls bagging 252 of 257 votes.
Oct.8: U.S. researchers Mario R. Capacchi, Oliver Smithies and British scientist Martin Evans are awarded the 2007 Nobel Medicine Prize.
Oct.9: France’s Albert Fert and Germany’s Peter Gruenberg are jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Oct.10: Germany’s Gerhard Ertl wins the 2007 Chemistry Nobel.
Oct.11: British novelist Dorris Lessing wins the 2007 Nobel Literature Prize for five decades of epic novels, her best known work being “The Golden Notebook”.
Oct.12: The former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, headed by Rajendra K. Pachauri of India are declared joint winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Myanmar Prime Minister Gen. Soe win (59) dies in a military hospital after a prolonged illness.
Oct. 14: The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, arrives in Nigeria, the first bilateral visit by an Indian Prime Minister to the country in 45 years.
Oct. 15: The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh and the Nigerian President, Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua sign the “Abuja Declaration” setting the stage for a strategic partnership.
Americans Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin amd Roger Myerson are awarded the Nobel Economics Prize for laying the foundations of "mechanism design theory.” Hurwicz (90) is the oldest Nobel winner ever and has no degree in the field.
Oct.16: Irish writer Anne Enright wins the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering which tells the story of a sprawling unhappy family.
Oct.18: India and Russia sign a pact to build a futuristic combat aircraft in Moscow.
Oct.19: The Pakistan People’s Party leader Benazir Bhutto escapes bid on life even as 140 persons are killed and hundreds injured in two blasts that rip through a procession taken out by party members in Karachi welcoming her home from a self-imposed exile for eight years.
Oct.21: Swiss voters cast ballots in parliamentary polls.
Oct.22: The Pro-European Civic Platform wins the Polish general elections ousting the government of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
Oct.24: China launches its first lunar probe chang’e 1.
Oct.25: The U.S. imposes sweeping new sanctions on Iran.
The world’s largest double-decker jetliner makes history with its first commercial flight from Singapore to Sydney.
Oct.26: The former Philippines President Joseph Estrada is set free after spending six-and-a-half years under house arrest.
Oct.28: Argentina’s First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner wins the Presidential polls.
Oct.30: Pakistan’s Supreme Court orders the government to allow the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to return home.
Oct.31: Twentyone persons are held guilty of the March 11, 2004 Madrid bombings.
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