October 2010 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 2010 Rahm Emanuel is resigning as Chief of Staff for the United States.
• 02 Oct 2010 An explosion killed a British soldier on patrol in Nahr-e Saraj District, Helmand Province in Afghanistan.
• 03 Oct 2010 25 Taliban militants were killed by security forces in Nad Ali, a district of southern Helmand Province.
• 04 Oct 2010 3 people were killed in Pibor county, Jonglei state of Sudan.
• 05 Oct 2010 Afghan militant attacks kill four civilians and injure six others in Rusht Rod, southwestern Farah province.
• 06 Oct 2010 Roy Halladay pitched the Cincinnati Reds' second no-hitter during Game 1 in the NLDS.
• 07 Oct 2010 Six gangsters were killed and one soldier was hurt when an army patrol clashed in northeastern Mexico with suspected gang members.
• 08 Oct 2010 After a collapse of Xinjiang's colliery, four miners were killed and one was seriously hurt. A pit belonging to Xinjiang Shenhua Tiandian Mining was destroyed by the earthquake in Hutubi County, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture.
• 09 Oct 2010 Two other Taliban leaders and insurgents were killed during a fight with Nato forces in the Murghab district of western Badghis province.
• 10 Oct 2010 The Netherlands Antilles have been disintegrated.
• 11 Oct 2010 In broad daylight, a leader of the Telugu Desam is shot to death in Anantapur's Srikantam circle.
• 12 Oct 2010 Two explosions take place in Aden in southern Yemen, killing one person and injuring many others. Al-Qaeda's wing in the country has also stated its intention to create a "new Army" to overthrow President.
• 13 Oct 2010 Copiapo Mining Accident in Copiapo Chile, 2010. All 33 miners reach the surface after having survived a record-breaking 69 days underground while waiting for rescue.
• 14 Oct 2010 Eight ISAF NATO soldiers were killed in multiple Afghan attacks, including four roadside bombings.
• 15 Oct 2010 Margot Wallstrom, United Nations Envoy, says Congolese government soldiers may have committed rape or murder in the Democratic Republic of the Congo just weeks after rebel attacks.
• 16 Oct 2010 Three explosions rocked Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, killing at least four and injuring two more.
• 17 Oct 2010 As a result of violence in Karachi, at least 33 people have been killed and 50 more are injured as part of a by-election. (India Times),
• 18 Oct 2010 Iraq War: In the midst of increasing uncertainty over the timing of WikiLeaks' next batch of classified documents, the U.S. military creates a 120-member team that searches its database for clues to prepare for the publication event.
• 19 Oct 2010 Russian troops are forced to leave Perevi, a Georgian border settlement, and are replaced with a Georgian Army unit. Perevi, which is just outside South Ossetia was occupied since 2008.
• 20 Oct 2010 After six days in captivity, Somali gunmen released a British security consultant to Save the Children.
• 21 Oct 2010 At least seven people are killed in a bomb attack on a bus that was travelling on Mindanao, a southern Philippine island.
• 22 Oct 2010 The International Space Station has been continuously inhabited for 3641 days, surpassing the record for longest continuous human occupancy of space.
• 23 Oct 2010 Preparing for the Seoul summit finance ministers from the G-20 agree on reforming the International Monetary Fund.
• 24 Oct 2010 Six people were killed in a shooting rampage at a militia outpost in Palid (Ipil), in the Zamboanga Sibugay region of the South Philippines.
• 25 Oct 2010 A tsunami and earthquake that struck Sumatra, Indonesia's coast, kills more than 400 people, and leaves many others missing.
• 26 Oct 2010 Permanent
• 27 Oct 2010 Several people were injured during protests in Jammu and Kashmir to mark the anniversary of Indian forces' arrival in the region in 1947.
• 28 Oct 2010 France says it will likely withdraw some troops from Afghanistan in 2011
• 29 Oct 2010 George W. Bush's memoir reveals that he believed United Airlines Flight 93 was shot down in the attacks of September 11, 2001.
• 30 Oct 2010 Unknown assailants opened firing in Rawalpindi's Civil Lines region of Pakistan, killing one person and wounding eight others.
• 31 Oct 2010 Following the discovery of two explosive packages, the US, UK and France have banned all air freight from Yemen to their respective airports.

Famous Birthday

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  American-born twins of Canadian noted family,their parents are famous singer Celine Dion and her husband René Angelil.

• René Zazzo

  French psychologist and pedagogue, whose research related to child psychology.

Famous Deaths

• Simon MacCorkindale

  British actor, producer and screenwriter who has had many TV roles including that of lawyer Greg Reardon on "Falcon Crest," a popular...

• Colette Renard

  French actress and singer, closely associated with the titular character from the musical Irma La Douce, a role she played for over a...

• Nestor Kirchner

  Argentine politician (Born 1950).

• Bernard Clavel

  French radio/tv writer, pacifist, artist, painter, critic, wrote numerous plays for radio & tv; contributes to reviews on arts & pacifist...

• Maurice Lucas

  American basketball player and coach (d. 2010).

• Tom Bosley

  American actor of stage, screen and television, perhaps most noted for his role in the long-running television series, "Happy Days" (first...

• James MacArthur

  American actor (Born 1937).

• Gregory Isaacs

  Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (d. 2010).

• Solomon Burke

  American singer-songwriter (d. 2010).

• Lamont Johnson

  American actor director and producer (d. 2010).

• Dame Joan Sutherland

  Australian operatic soprano (Born 1926).

• Romeu Tuma

  Brazilian politician (Born 1931).

• Denise Borino

  American actress (Born 1964).

• Theodore Sorensen

  American lawyer and special counsel to John F. Kennedy (Born 1928).

• Mbah Maridjan

  Mount Merapi gatekeeper (Born 1927).

• Antonie Kamerling

  Dutch actor (Born 1966).

• Sir Norman Wisdom

  English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor (Born 1915).

• Glen ''Frosty'' Little

  American circus clown (Born 1925).

• Vesna Parun

  Croatian poet (Born 1922).

• Francis Crippen

  American long-distance swimmer (Born 1984).

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