Events in October 2008
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Oct. 1
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Sarvodaya couple Krishnammal Jagannathan and Sankaralingam Jagannathan share the Right Livelihood Award or “alternative Nobel.” An American Journalist, a Swiss-born doctor and an activist from Somalia are the other winners. |
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Russia’s Supreme Court rehabilitates the last Romanov monarch Czar Nicholas II and his family killed by a revolutionary firing squad in 1918. |
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration celebrates 50 years of operation. |
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The U.S. Senate approves a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry. |
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Oct. 2
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The U.S. Senate gives nod for the U.S.- India Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy. |
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The Awami National Party leader Asfandyar Wali Khan escapes bid on life by a suicide bomber in the North West Frontier Province, Pakistan. |
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Oct. 5
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Russia begins pullback from Georgia. |
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Oct. 6
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World stock markets plunge touching four-year lows in London and New York. Dow Jones goes below the 10000-mark intraday since October 2004. |
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Germany’s Harald Zur Hausen and French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier share the 2008 Nobel Prize for medicine. |
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Major General (Retd.) Janaka Perera is among 28 persons killed in a suicide bomb attack in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. |
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Oct. 7
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Two Japanese scientists, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa and a Tokyo-born American citizen Yoichiro Nambu share the 2008 Nobel Physics Prize for discoveries in sub-atomic particles. |
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Thailand Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat flees from Parliament and his Deputy Chavalit Yongchaiyudh resigns following growing anti-government protests. |
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Oct. 8
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The U.S. President George W. Bush signs the United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Non-proliferation Enhancement Act in Washington. |
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Osamu Shimomura of Japan and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien win the Nobel Chemistry Prize for a fluorescent protein derived from a jellyfish. |
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Maldivians cast votes in presidential polls. |
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The Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolves Parliament and calls for a snap poll on December 7. |
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Russia finishes troops pullout from Georgia. |
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Oct. 9
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French writer Marie Gustave Le Clezio is awarded the Nobel Literature Prize. |
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The trial in the attack on the Glasgow airport on June 30, 2007 begins. |
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Wall Street registers record losses. |
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Oct. 10
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Finland’s former President Martti Ahtisaari is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for a long career of peacemaking around the world from Namibia to Kosovo. |
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Fifty persons are killed and 100 others injured after a suicide bomber strikes at a meeting of tribal elders in Pakistan’s Awrakzai region. |
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Japan’s Yamato Life Insurance Co. files for bankruptcy. |
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India signs a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement with the U.S. |
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Oct. 11
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Austrian extreme right leader Joerg Haider dies in a car crash near his home town of Klagenfurt in Austria’s Carinthia province. |
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The U.S. takes off North Korea of “terror list.” |
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Oct. 12
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India’s Sister Alphonsa is declared a saint by Pope Benedict XVI at a ceremony in Vatican City and named St. Alphonsa of Immaculate Conception. |
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Oct. 13
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U.S. Economist Paul Krugman is awarded the Nobel Economics Prize for his trade analysis theory. |
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Global stock markets soar as governments step in pumping more money into banks crippled by the credit crunch. |
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Oct. 14
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Arvind Adiga, the Chennai-born author wins the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for his debut novel The White Tiger. |
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Oct. 15
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Stephen Harper is re-elected Canadian Prime Minister. |
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Malaysia bans the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) accusing it of threatening national security. |
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Oct. 22
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India and Japan sign a declaration on security cooperation after talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Taro Aso in Tokyo. |
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British billionaire Sir Richard Branson sets out from New York on Yacht Virgin Money on a quest to break the world record for crossing the Atlantic set in March 2003. |
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Oct. 23
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A British team launches an attempt to set a new land speed record with the Bloodhound Supersonic car that could reach 1,600 kmph. |
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Oct. 24
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Reforms agenda must take on board the “economically damaging role of excessive speculative activity,” says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the seventh Asia-Europe meeting in Beijing. |
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British tycoon Richard Branson abandons bid to break the Trans Atlantic sailing record. |
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Oct. 26
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Eight persons are killed as U.S. troops launch a helicopter raid on a Syrian village on the Iraqi border. |
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Oct. 28
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The LTTE drops two improvised bombs on the Kelanitissa power station on the outskirts of Colombo, after dropping three bombs on a military camp in Mannar district. |
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Maldivians cast ballots in run-off presidential polls. |
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Oct. 29
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Mohamed “Anni” Nasheed wins the Maldivian presidential run-off unseating the incumbent Maumoon Abdul Gayoom at the helm for the past 30 years. |
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At least 215 people are killed 375 injured and 15,000 rendered homeless after a strong earthquake strikes a remote valley in Balochistan, Pakistan. |
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The hilltop resort of Ziarat and eight surrounding villages bear the brunt. |
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Oct. 30
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The Sri Lankan Army wrests control of Nachchikuda ‘a major strongpoint’ of the LTTE. |
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