October 1, 2007 (2007-10-01 ) (Monday)
October 2, 2007 (2007-10-02 ) (Tuesday)
October 3, 2007 (2007-10-03 ) (Wednesday)
October 4, 2007 (2007-10-04 ) (Thursday)
October 5, 2007 (2007-10-05 ) (Friday)
October 6, 2007 (2007-10-06 ) (Saturday)
October 7, 2007 (2007-10-07 ) (Sunday)
War in Afghanistan : Sixteen militants fighting under wanted
Uzbek warlord
Tahir Yuldash are killed in eastern
Afghanistan .
(AP via Google) [
permanent dead link ]
The
United Auto Workers sets a Wednesday deadline to reach a new four-year contract with
Chrysler .
(NYT)
A
sheriff 's deputy
shoots 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 .
(Reuters)
Costa Ricans approve
CAFTA in a
referendum with 52% of the votes.
(AP via Google News)
Pro-
Taliban
militants capture 28
Pakistan
soldiers in the North
Waziristan tribal region.[
citation needed ]
2007 Pacific typhoon season :
A
Syrian military plane crashes near
Damascus , killing all three on board.
(AP via Google News) [
permanent dead link ]
Record-setting temperatures cause the 2007
Chicago Marathon to shut down after only three and a half hours and after the race has a men's open division
photo finish , a death, and sprint finishes in the women's open and men's wheelchair divisions.
(Chicago Tribune) [
permanent dead link ]
Vandals punch 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.
(AP via Yahoo! News
Randy Orton is awarded the vacant
WWE Championship which he loses in 10 minutes to
Triple H , who defeats
Umaga in the second title defense of the night, but loses in the 3rd to Randy Orton in a
Last Man Standing match .
U.S.
college football : On the heels of last week's historic
AP Poll shakeup, another one of comparable size occurs, in which four Top Ten teams and eleven ranked teams overall move down the list or off the poll entirely.
LSU receives first place from all 65 sports critics, the first time that has occurred for any team since
December 2006 . #2
California earns its highest rank since 1951, #4
Boston College earns its highest showing since 1984, and #5
South Florida continues its ascent after first moving into the AP Poll three weeks ago.
(AP via Yahoo! Sports)
October 8, 2007 (2007-10-08 ) (Monday)
October 9, 2007 (2007-10-09 ) (Tuesday)
October 10, 2007 (2007-10-10 ) (Wednesday)
Polish police
evict 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.
(AP) [
permanent dead link ]
The
general election in the
Canadian
province of
Ontario gives the
Liberal government of Premier
Dalton McGuinty an enlarged majority.
(Bloomberg)
Tibetan exiles storm the
embassy of the
People's Republic of China in
New Delhi to protest the lack of
religious freedom in
China .
(AP via CNN)
Taliban frees one German and four Afghan
hostages kidnapped in mid-July.[
citation needed ]
The
United States
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns 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.
(AP via WJBF)
Mahmoud Abbas , the President of the
Palestinian Authority , spells out his conditions for a peace deal with
Israel prior to
a conference in
Annapolis, Maryland , next month.
(The Guardian)
The
United Automobile Workers reaches a tentative agreement with
Chrysler shortly after workers commence
strike action .
(Fox News)
The first
Malaysian astronaut,
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor , and the first female space station commander,
Peggy Whitson , are launched towards the
International Space Station on board
Soyuz TMA-11 .
(Spaceflightnow)
German scientist
Gerhard Ertl is announced as the winner of the 2007
Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on chemical processes on solid surfaces.
(BBC)
The
International Monetary Fund warns of a slowdown of the global economy in 2008 as a result of financial turmoil on global markets.
(BBC)
An
earthquake measuring 4.8 on the
Richter scale is recorded just south of
Katanning, Western Australia , and felt as far away as
Perth, Western Australia .
(ABC)
A 14-year-old high school student
goes on a shooting rampage in
Cleveland, Ohio , wounding two teachers and two students before his death.
(CNN)
October 11, 2007 (2007-10-11 ) (Thursday)
October 12, 2007 (2007-10-12 ) (Friday)
October 13, 2007 (2007-10-13 ) (Saturday)
October 14, 2007 (2007-10-14 ) (Sunday)
October 15, 2007 (2007-10-15 ) (Monday)
Montenegrin
Prime Minister
Željko Šturanović signs 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 .
(EUobserver)
Battle of Las Anod : Troops from the breakaway
Somali republic of
Somaliland seize a town inside
Puntland , a rival region loyal to the interim Somali government, killing at least 10 people.
(Al Jazeera)
Sir
Menzies Campbell resigns as the leader of the
Liberal Democrats in the
United Kingdom , starting a
leadership election .
(The Guardian )
Leonid Hurwicz ,
Eric S. Maskin and
Roger B. Myerson are announced as winners of the 2007
Nobel Prize in Economics for having laid the foundations of
mechanism design theory.
(Nobelprize.org)
Ibrahim Gambari , the
United Nations special envoy to
Myanmar , warns the
Burmese government to stop arresting dissidents.
(Reuters Canada) [
permanent dead link ]
Airbus delivers its first
A380 aircraft to launch customer
Singapore Airlines in a ceremony in
Toulouse ,
France , almost 18 months behind schedule, but denies rumours that further delays to the programme are looming.
(BBC News)
(Reuters UK)
William Street underground platforms and
The Esplanade Station begin service in
Perth ,
Western Australia . Part of the
New MetroRail project, they are the first stations to open on the new
Mandurah Line .
(ABC News Australia)
Police raids are made across
New Zealand under the
Terrorism Suppression Act , with individuals supporting
Māori sovereignty targeted, and arrested, for their alleged involvement in paramilitary activities. Activist
Tame Iti is among those arrested.
(The New Zealand Herald )
The
17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opens in
Beijing ,
China , marking the beginning of a 7-day conclave of China's top leadership.
General Secretary
Hu Jintao delivers 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".
(BBC News)
Xinhua
Richard Brunstrom , the
Chief Constable of
North Wales Police , calls for all classified
drugs to be legalised in the
United Kingdom . He argues that the current policy of prohibition is not working, and is based on
dogma .
(The Independent )
October 16, 2007 (2007-10-16 ) (Tuesday)
October 17, 2007 (2007-10-17 ) (Wednesday)
October 18, 2007 (2007-10-18 ) (Thursday)
October 19, 2007 (2007-10-19 ) (Friday)
EU leaders agree in
Lisbon that the
transcription "eвро" (evro) will be used in
Bulgarian translations of the
euro in official EU documents.
(EuObserver)
The
Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 369.1 points, or 2.7%, on the 20th anniversary of
Black Monday .
(CNN Money)
James D. Watson , who shared the 1962
Nobel prize for deciphering the double-helix of
DNA , apologizes for reported comments suggesting that black people, over all, are not as intelligent as whites.
(NYT)
Six people die as a result of storms in the
midwestern United States and
Washington state.
(AP via Google)
Two
US Marines including a
battalion commander will face a
court martial in connection with the killing of 24 civilians in
Haditha in 2005.
(BBC)
Tens of thousands of people are evacuated from
villages near
Mount Kelud on
Java as the
volcano threatens to erupt.
(AP via IHT)
Four
United States Air Force officers are 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 .
(CNN)
Sam Brownback ,
Senator for
Kansas , pulls out of the
2008 United States presidential election due to a lack of support and funds.
(AP via Fox News)
British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown says 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.
(AP via PR Inside)
2007 Karachi bombings : The death toll from the bombings rises to 136 with 387 people wounded.
(CNN)
An
explosion kills up to eight civilians
Glorietta Mall in
Makati City ,
Philippines Jee Ann De Gracia was one of the 11th victim of Bombing.
(AFP via Inquirer)
A ship sinks off the coast of
Sulawesi in
Indonesia resulting in at least 31 deaths and 35 people missing.
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
Thailand arrests suspected
Canadian
child molester
Christopher Paul Neil after an international man hunt.
(Reuters)
(CNN)
Leaders of the
European Union reach agreement on the
Lisbon Treaty following last-minute concessions to
Poland ,
Italy and
Bulgaria .
(EuObserver)
(ABC News Australia)
October 20, 2007 (2007-10-20 ) (Saturday)
October 21, 2007 (2007-10-21 ) (Sunday)
Tokelauan ex-pats in
Samoa go to the polls for the
Tokelauan self-determination referendum .
(Radio New Zealand)
Turkish people vote in favor of a
constitutional referendum on
electoral reform with a 69% majority.
(AP via IHT)
Voters
go 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 will be held on
November 11 .
(AP via Google News) [
permanent dead link ]
Marco Fu wins the
2007 Royal London Watches Grand Prix snooker tournament , defeating
Ronnie O'Sullivan 9 frames to 6.
(BBC)
Kyrgyz people go to the polls to vote on a
constitutional referendum called by
President
Kurmanbek Bakiyev .
(Reuters)
Speaking at the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy , United States
Vice President
Dick Cheney states: "The United States joins other nations in sending a clear message - we will not allow
Iran to have a
nuclear weapon ."
(BBC)
A fire in an illegal shoe
factory kills at least 34 people in
Putian in
Fujian province, China.
(BBC)
The
Boston Red Sox defeat 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 .
(AP via Fox News)
2007 California fires :
The world's biggest
banks endorse a rescue plan, also supported by the
United States Treasury , to restore the world's financial system.
(BBC)
Polish Prime Minister
Jarosław Kaczyński is conceding defeat as exit polls give
Donald Tusk 's
Civic Platform a large lead over his ruling nationalists in the
parliamentary elections .
(VOA)
(BBC)
Kimi Räikkönen wins the
2007 Formula One World Drivers Championship .
(BBC)
Kurdistan Workers' Party militants kill 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.
(Reuters)
Soyuz TMA-10 lands safely outside
Arkalyk , 340 kilometers (210 mi) short of the planned landing site in
Kazakhstan , due to a computer glitch.
(ABC News)
2007 Ogaden conflict : A rebel group in eastern
Ethiopia , the
Ogaden National Liberation Front , says it has carried out an attack on government troops, killing 140 troops.
(BBC)
Swiss voters go to the polls for the
2007 Swiss federal election , with the right-wing
Swiss People's Party set to win.
(BBC)
Three of the
People's Republic of China 's top politicians, namely, Vice-President
Zeng Qinghong , anti-corruption chief
Wu Guanzheng , and
Luo Gan , are dropped from the
Communist Party of China 's
Central Committee . Also retiring are Vice-Premier
Wu Yi , Vice-Premier
Zeng Peiyan , and Defence Minister
Cao Gangchuan . Hu's
Scientific Development Concept is enshrined in the Party Constitution.
(BBC)
October 22, 2007 (2007-10-22 ) (Monday)
October 23, 2007 (2007-10-23 ) (Tuesday)
October 24, 2007 (2007-10-24 ) (Wednesday)
Comet 17P/Holmes grows significantly brighter overnight, going from magnitude 17 to magnitude 3 in just a few hours, while in the constellation of Perseus.
(USA Today)
The
Bank of America announces that it will lay off 3,000 staff following an announcement of a significant decline in earnings in the third quarter.
(NYT)
A storm in the
Gulf of Mexico kills 18
Mexican
oil workers fleeing an
oil rig , with
Navy rescue teams trying to reach survivors.
(Reuters)
(BBC)
Moderating winds improve the outlook in the fight against the
California wildfires of October 2007 .
(CNN)
Richard J. Griffin resigns as head of the
Bureau of Diplomatic Security in the
United States State Department following the
Blackwater
shooting in
Iraq .
(AP via CNN)
The
United Kingdom announces 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.
(Irish Times)
Turkey-PKK conflict
China launches its first lunar orbiter,
Chang'e 1 , on an exploration mission to the moon.
(BBC)
The
Pakistan Peoples Party claims that its leader, former
Prime Minister of Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto , has been forbidden to leave the country.
(BBC)
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 .
(ABC)
The
ITER Organization was officially established.
(ITER)
October 25, 2007 (2007-10-25 ) (Thursday)
October 26, 2007 (2007-10-26 ) (Friday)
October 27, 2007 (2007-10-27 ) (Saturday)
October 28, 2007 (2007-10-28 ) (Sunday)
October 29, 2007 (2007-10-29 ) (Monday)
The strain of
HIV most common in the
United States ,
Europe ,
Japan ,
Australia and much of
South America is traced back to
Haiti in 1969.
(BBC)
The
USS Arleigh Burke enters
Somali waters in pursuit of a
Japanese ship carrying
benzene that was hijacked by
pirates .
(CNN)
Argentine general election, 2007 :
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is elected
President of Argentina .
(Argentina results)
(CNN)
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 .
(Guardian Unlimited)
The
Prime Minister of Israel
Ehud Olmert announces that he has been diagnosed with early-stage
prostate cancer .
(NYT)
Salim Aliyow Ibrow becomes
Prime Minister of Somalia in the
Transitional Federal Government as the embattled
Ali Mohamed Ghedi resigns.
(BBC)
The
UK
embassy in
Baku ,
Azerbaijan , is closed as a precaution after a terrorist attack in the city is prevented. The US embassy also closes its doors after the Azerbaijan Government reports of the thwarting of a "large-scale, horrifying terror attack."
(Sky)
(AP)
People's Republic of China :
An
earthquake with
magnitude of five on
Richter scale shakes central
Nepal .[
citation needed ]
All banks and post offices in
Borlänge ,
Sweden , are kept closed by the local police due to an "elevated risk level of
bank robbery ".
(TT via Dagens Nyheter)
[2]
Kasereka Kabamba , a
Mai Mai militia leader in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo , surrenders to
Nord-Kivu Army Chief Vainqueur Mayala. Kabamba maintains his forces fought against rebels loyal to
Laurent Kabila , in the service of the government.
(BBC)
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 will appear in court this week.
(Times Online)
October 30, 2007 (2007-10-30 ) (Tuesday)
October 31, 2007 (2007-10-31 ) (Wednesday)
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