Portal:Current events/October 2008/Sidebar

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October

 * 31: Studs Terkel
 * 26: Tony Hillerman
 * 25: Muslim Magomayev
 * 25: Anne Pressly
 * 24: Merl Saunders
 * 21: Sonja Bernadotte
 * 20: Gene Hickerson
 * 20: Pat Kavanagh
 * 19: Richard Blackwell
 * 19: Rudy Ray Moore
 * 19: Gianni Raimondi
 * 18: Dee Dee Warwick
 * 18: Dave McKenna
 * 18: Xie Jin
 * 17: Ben Weider
 * 17: Levi Stubbs
 * 15: Wang Yung-ching
 * 15: Edie Adams
 * 15: Jack Narz
 * 15: Eddie Thompson
 * 14: Richard Cooey
 * 14: Ray Lowry
 * 13: Frank Rosenthal
 * 13: Paul Rogers
 * 13: Guillaume Depardieu
 * 13: Alexei Cherepanov
 * 11: Neal Hefti
 * 11: Jörg Haider
 * 10: Alton Ellis
 * 10: Alexey Prokurorov
 * 9: Gidget Gein
 * 8: Bob Friend
 * 8: Eileen Herlie
 * 8: Norman Hogg
 * 7: George Emil Palade
 * 4: Mahir al-Zubaydi
 * 2: Choi Jin-sil
 * 2: Rob Guest
 * 1: Nick Reynolds
 * 1: Boris Efimov

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 * 8 October: Maldives, President
 * 12 October: Lithuania, Parliament (1st Round) and nuclear power referendum
 * 14 October: Canada, Parliament
 * 15 October: Azerbaijan, President
 * 15 October: Jersey, General (1st Round)
 * 16 October: United Nations, Security Council
 * 17/18 October and 24/25 October: Czech Republic, Senate (one third)
 * 26 October: Lithuania, Parliament (2nd Round)
 * 26 October: Chile, Municipal
 * 29 October: Maldives, President (2nd Round)
 * 30 October: Zambia, President
 * 30 October: Zambia, President

November
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 * 4 November: United States: President, House of Representatives, Senate (one third: "Class II" Senators)
 * 4 November: American Samoa, General
 * 4 November: Guam, General
 * 4 November: Palau, President, Senate and House of Delegates
 * 4 November: Puerto Rico, Governor, Legislative
 * 8 November: New Zealand, General
 * 9 November: San Marino, Parliament
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Upcoming

 * Austria: Josef Fritzl
 * Canada: Larry O'Brien
 * Estonia: Herman Simm
 * Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox
 * Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
 * Netherlands: ICTY
 * Radovan Karadžić
 * Singapore: Peter Lloyd
 * U.S.: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá
 * U.S.: Viktor Bout
 * U.S.: Tom DeLay
 * U.S.: Noshir Gowadia
 * U.S.: William J. Jefferson
 * U.S.: Kwame Kilpatrick
 * U.S.: James Charles Kopp
 * U.S.: Ehren Watada

Ongoing
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 * Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
 * Iraq: Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal
 * Netherlands: ICC
 * Thomas Lubanga
 * Netherlands: ICTY
 * Peru: Alberto Fujimori
 * Sierra Leone: SCfSL
 * Charles Taylor
 * Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
 * US: Jena Six
 * US: Brian Nichols
 * US: José Padilla
 * US: Phil Spector
 * US: Ted Stevens
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 * 2: Gandhi Jayanthi India
 * 13: Columbus Day (observed) in many U.S. states. Thanksgiving in Canada.
 * 15: The inaugural Global Handwashing Day
 * 31: Halloween
 * 31: King-Father’s Birthday (Cambodia)
 * 31: Allantide (Cornwall)
 * 31: Hop-tu-Naa (Isle of Man)
 * 31: Nevada Day (Nevada)
 * 31: Reformation Day (Lutheranism, Reformed churches, Slovenia, Germany)
 * 31 - November 1: Samhain (Gaelic, Pagan, Wicca in Northern Hemisphere)
 * 31 - November 1: Beltane (Gaelic, Pagan, Wicca in Southern Hemisphere)

November
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 * 1: World Vegan Day
 * 1: All Saints' Day (Western Christianity)
 * 1: National Day (Algeria)
 * 1: State Day (India)
 * 1: Karnataka Rajyotsava (Karnataka)
 * 1: National Authors' Day (United States)
 * 1: National Family Literacy Day (United States)
 * 1: Calan Gaeaf (Wales)
 * 1-2: Day of the Dead (Mexico)
 * 2: All Souls' Day (Western Christianity)
 * 2: Haile Selassie I Coronation (Rastafari)
 * 2: Indian Arrival Day (Mauritius)
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