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October 4 - Two car bombs kill at least 16 people and injure dozens more in Baghdad.
October 5 - A fire breaks out on the Canadian submarine, HMCS Chicoutimi, leaving it stranded without power in the North Atlantic ocean, off the north coast of Ireland. One crewmember is killed.
October 8 -
- Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage held by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an Iraqi insurgent, is killed after a failed escape attempt.
- Suicide bombers detonate two bombs at the Red Sea resort of Taba, Egypt, killing 34 people, mainly Israeli tourists and Egyptian workers.
October 9 -
- Queen Elizabeth II opens the new Scottish Parliament Building in a ceremony in Edinburgh
- Incumbent Prime Minister of Australia John Howard leads the Liberal-National coalition to victory over the Labor Party led by Mark Latham in federal elections.
- Direct elections for president held for the first time in Afghanistan.
October 10 - Abdullahi Yusuf is chosen as the new transitional president of Somalia.
October 14 - Prince Norodom Sihamoni is chosen as the new king of Cambodia.
October 17 - A referendum in Belarus approves the lifting of constitutional term limits for the presidency.
October 19 - General Khin Nyunt is replaced by Lieutenant-General Soe Win as Prime Minister of Myanmar.
October 20 -
- Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashes in Missouri, killing 13 people, and injuring 2.
- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono becomes the first directly-elected President of Indonesia.
October 21 - The Ministry of Defence approves the deployment of the Black Watch regiment of the British Army to Baghdad, Iraq after a request for assistance by the U.S. government.
October 23 - A powerful earthquake strikes Japan, north of Tokyo.
October 24 -
- The bodies of 49 Iraqi soldiers discovered after being ambushed by insurgents.
- Brazil successfully launches its first rocket into space.
October 26 - The Cassini probe passes within 1,200km of Titan
October 27 -
- Details of the discovery of a new, recent, species of fossil hominid, Homo floresiensis, from the island of Flores, Indonesia are published.
- The Curse of the Bambino is struck out as the Boston Red Sox sweeps the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series championship for the first time since 1918.
- Last lunar eclipse until 2007 seen in the Western Hemisphere.
October 29 - A videotape of Osama Bin Laden speaking airs on Arabic TV, in which he threatens terrorist attacks on the USA, and taunts the President, George W Bush, over the September 11 Terrorist attacks.
October 30 - Closing of Tempelhof International Airport, Berlin.
October 31 - Tabare Vazquez is elected President of Uruguay, consolidating a general swing to the left in South America.

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