Events in October 2004
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Oct. 1
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Over 100 resistance fighters are killed as the U.S. troops and Iraqi forces launch a massive assault on Samarra near Baghdad. |
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Twentynine persons are killed as a bomb rips through a mosque in Sialkot town in Pakistan's Punjab province. |
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Oct. 4
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Former General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wins a landslide in the Indonesian presidential polls held on September 20. |
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Oct. 5
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Americans David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczeck win the 2004 Nobel Prize for Physics for showing how tiny quark particles interact. |
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Alu Alkhanov (47), is sworn in Chechnya President. |
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Oct. 6
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Israelis Aaron Ciechanover (57) and Avram Hershko (67), and American Irwin Rose (78) are honoured with the 2004 Chemistry Nobel Prize for cell research. |
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Oct. 7
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Austrian playwright and Novelist, Elfriede Jelinek whose works feature themes of feminist struggle wins the 2004 Literature Nobel. |
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Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk (81), abdicates citing poor health. |
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Over 40 persons are killed and 100 injured in a massive car bomb blast in Multan in Pakistan's Punjab province. |
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Oct. 8
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Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman (64), whose Green Belt Movement has planted 30 million trees in Africa, wins this year's Nobel Peace Prize. |
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At least 31 persons, mostly Israelis are killed in four coordinated strikes at an Egyptian hotel and a tourist resort. |
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Oct. 9
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Afghanistan holds first direct Presidential polls. |
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Australian Prime Minister, John Howard wins a fourth straight term in office, in general elections. |
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Oct. 11
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Abdullah Yusuf is elected Somalia's President. |
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Oct. 15
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Russia and China sign a pact settling the last stretches of a 4,300 km border between the two states, in Beijing. |
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The Harare High Court acquits Zimbabwe's Opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai in a treason trial stemming from State accusations that he plotted to kill the President, Robert Mugabe. |
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Oct. 19
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Myanmar Prime Minister, Gen. Khin Nyunt is replaced by a top member of the junta, Lt. Gen. Soe Win. |
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Oct. 20
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Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty, a novel about gay sex and high political jinx set in Thatcherite Britain wins this year's £50,000 Man Booker Prize. |
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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia's first directly elected President is sworn in. |
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The Turkish Cypriot Government led by Mehmet Ali Talat falls. |
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Oct. 21
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Fiftyfive persons are killed as Typhoon 'Tokage' leaves behind a trail of destruction in Japan. |
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Oct. 23
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Russian Parliament ratifies the Kyoto treaty on climate change. |
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Oct. 24
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The interim leader of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai wins majority in Presidential polls. |
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Oct. 26
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Israel's Parliament gives nod for withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of West Bank. |
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Oct. 27
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Seventyeight persons suffocate to death after being arrested and packed into trucks by security forces following a riot in southern Thailand. |
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Oct. 29
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The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat is flown to Paris for treatment of an illness that is yet to be diagnosed. |
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The 25-member European Union signs a Constitution, in Rome. |
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