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This article covers breaking news and events in October 2010.
Daily events
Friday October 1st 2010
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- Abuja / Nigeria : At least twelve people are killed and more than 17 others are injured in an attack on Independence Day celebrations.
- Essen / Germany : Nicolas Berggruen becomes the new owner of Karstadt .
- Ottawa / Canada : David Johnston is sworn in as the new Governor General of Canada and thus succeeds Michaëlle Jean .
- Victoria de Durango / Mexico : At least 14 people are killed in a shootout in the drug war in the state of Durango .
Saturday 2nd October 2010
- Berlin / Germany : The Dutch politician Geert Wilders visits the city at the invitation of the CDU MP René Stadtkewitz , who is then excluded from the CDU parliamentary group in the House of Representatives .
- Datta Khel / Pakistan : US drone attacks in the north of the country kill at least 15 people.
- Petarukan / Indonesia : In a train accident arrive at least 36 people dead and 13 others are injured.
- Riga / Latvia : In the parliamentary elections, the ruling unitary bloc of Valdis Dombrovskis won 57 percent of the vote, while the opposition Harmony Center won 25.8 percent of the vote.
Sunday 3rd October 2010
- Berlin / Germany : The term of the government bonds , which were taken out to pre-finance reparations from the period after the First World War , is ending. The demands were expired until October 3, 1990 and then existed for 20 years.
- Brasília / Brazil : In the presidential election obtained Dilma Rousseff 46.9 percent of the vote, Jose Serra 32.6 percent and Marina Silva 19.3 percent. Dilma Rousseff and José Serra will face a runoff election on October 31st.
- New Delhi / India : opening of the Commonwealth Games 2010
- Sarajevo / Bosnia and Herzegovina : The presidential and parliamentary elections are taking place.
Monday 4th October 2010
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Switzerland - Hungarian Melinda Nadj Abonji is awarded the German Book Prize for her novel Taubenfly auf .
- Kolontár / Hungary : If a dam breaks , an area of around 40 square kilometers is contaminated by leaked red mud , killing at least seven people.
- Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to the Briton Robert Edwards “for his development of in vitro fertilization ”.
Tuesday 5th October 2010
- Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Prize for Physics this year will go to the two Russian physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov “for fundamental experiments with the two-dimensional material graph ”.
Wednesday October 6, 2010
- Dushanbe / Tajikistan : At least 28 people are killed in a helicopter crash in the eastern Rasht region.
- Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Prize for Chemistry goes to the American chemist Richard F. Heck and the two Japanese Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki “for palladium- catalyzed cross-coupling in organic synthesis ”.
Thursday October 7, 2010
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- Asia : At least 140 people are killed in the People's Republic of China , Indonesia and Vietnam after severe storms .
- Baikonur / Kazakhstan : Launch of the Soyuz TMA-01M mission to the International Space Station .
- Stockholm / Sweden : This year the Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded to the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of power structures and sharp-edged images of individual resistance, uprising and defeat".
Friday October 8, 2010
- Oslo / Norway : The Nobel Peace Prize goes to the Chinese writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for basic human rights in China".
Saturday 9th October 2010
- Fehmarn / Germany : The Lithuanian ferry Lisco Gloria goes up in flames in the Fehmarnbelt after an explosion; the more than 200 passengers on board can be saved.
- Kailua-Kona / United States : The Ironman Hawaii ends with wins for the Australians Mirinda Carfrae in the women and Chris McCormack in the men.
Sunday October 10, 2010
- Amsterdam / Netherlands : The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved and Curaçao and Sint Maarten become autonomous areas within the Kingdom of the Netherlands . The BES islands of Saba , Sint Eustatius and Bonaire become special communities .
- Bishkek / Kyrgyzstan : In the parliamentary elections , the Ata-Shurt party got 8.88 percent, the Social Democratic Party 8.04 percent, the Ar-Namys party 7.74 percent, the Respublika party 7.24 percent and the Ata Meken party to 5.6 percent of the vote.
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : On the final day of the book fair , the Israeli writer David Grossman is awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .
- Vienna / Austria : In the state and local council elections , the SPÖ becomes the strongest force with 44.34 percent of the vote, ahead of the FPÖ with 25.77 percent. The ÖVP and the Greens are also represented in the future city senate. In the district council election , the SPÖ becomes the strongest force with 41.27 percent of the vote, ahead of the FPÖ with 23.53 percent. The ÖVP won 15.58 percent and the Greens won 15.18 percent of the vote.
Monday October 11, 2010
- Berlin / Germany : According to the current World Hunger Index , 925 million people worldwide suffer from hunger. The situation is grave in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Burundi , Eritrea and Chad .
- Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Prize for Economics goes to economists Peter A. Diamond , Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides “for their analysis of markets with friction ”.
Tuesday October 12, 2010
- Dnipropetrovsk / Ukraine : At least 40 people are killed and more than ten others are injured when a bus collides with a train.
- Nowe Miasto / Poland : At least 18 people are killed and another is injured in a bus accident. And big tasty critics died
Wednesday October 13, 2010
- Atlanta / United States : For the first time, a person is being treated in a hospital with nerve cells that have been grown from embryonic stem cells .
- Copiapó / Chile : 69 days after the mining disaster in San José , the 33 buried miners are rescued.
Thursday October 14, 2010
- Berlin / Germany : For the first time, a course for the training of imams is being introduced at the universities of Osnabrück , Münster and Tübingen .
- New Delhi / India : conclusion of the Commonwealth Games 2010 ; with 74 wins, Australia becomes the most successful nation.
- Beijing / China : A group of 23 former influential Communist Party officials wrote an open letter to the government in which, among other things, they criticized the censorship policy and put forward some reform ideas.
- Rome / Italy : The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations declares rinderpest eradicated.
Friday October 15, 2010
- Sedrun / Switzerland : Final breakthrough at the Gotthard Base Tunnel , the world's longest railway tunnel at 57 km.
Saturday October 16, 2010
- Pristina / Kosovo : The coalition government that has been in office since the end of 2007 is falling apart after LDK party leader Fatmir Sejdiu has announced that he will be leaving because of the dispute with the majority party PDK and Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi over the privatization of Post and Telecom.
- Zhengzhou / China : At least 26 people are killed in a mine accident in Henan province and eleven more are still missing.
Sunday 17th October 2010
- Vatican City : Pope Benedict XVI. speaks six sacred : The Australian Mary MacKillop , the Poland Stanisław Kazimierczyk , the Canadian André Bessette , the two Italians Camilla Battista Varano and Giulia Salzano and the Spaniard Candida Maria of Jesus .
Monday October 18, 2010
- Nagoya / Japan : Start of the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Conference on Biodiversity , at which measures against the ongoing destruction of nature and the problems of biopiracy are being negotiated.
Tuesday October 19, 2010
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- Ankara / Turkey : Christian Wulff is the first German President to give a speech in the Grand National Assembly .
- Asia : Typhoon Megi kills at least 36 people in the Philippines , while storms in Vietnam kill at least 35 people.
- Cotonou / Benin : Persistent heavy rains cause the rivers Mono and Queme to overflow, affecting around 680,000 people and leaving around 100,000 homeless; in the big city around 800 people are infected with cholera .
- London / United Kingdom : Prime Minister David Cameron announces in the House of Commons that the approximately 20,000 soldiers of the armed forces in Germany will be completely withdrawn by 2020.
Wednesday October 20, 2010
- London / United Kingdom : Treasury Secretary George Osborne announces the details of an austerity program to consolidate the budget . According to this, 490,000 jobs will be saved in the civil service and the budgets of the individual departments will be cut by an average of 19 percent.
- Strasbourg / France : The European Parliament adopts a EU -wide uniform labor maternity leave of 20 weeks.
Thursday October 21, 2010
- Düsseldorf / Germany : The deputy chairman of the FDP and chairman of the FDP North Rhine-Westphalia Andreas Pinkwart resigns from all offices.
- Moscow / Russia : Four weeks after Yuri Luzhkov's dismissal , Vice Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin is elected mayor of the city.
- Strasbourg / France : The European Parliament awards this year's Sakharov Prize to the Cuban regime critic Guillermo Fariñas . The award ceremony will take place in Strasbourg on December 15th.
Friday October 22, 2010
- Asia : Thunderstorms killed at least 32 people in Thailand , while Typhoon Megi in Taiwan killed at least 11 people.
- Ciudad Juárez / Mexico : At least 13 people are shot dead and more than 15 injured in an attack.
- Istanbul / Turkey : President Abdullah Gül and German President Christian Wulff lay the foundation stone for the German-Turkish University in the Beykoz district .
- Stuttgart / Germany : The first round of arbitration on the controversial Stuttgart 21 construction project with Heiner Geißler begins.
- Tel Aviv / Israel : Chess grandmaster Alik Gershon sets a new record in simultaneous chess after 19 hours and 523 games, displacing Iranian Morteza Mahjoob .
Saturday October 23, 2010
- Augsburg / Germany : Konrad Zdarsa is introduced to the office of Bishop of Augsburg and succeeds Walter Mixa .
- Berlin / Germany : Erika Steinbach ( CDU ) is re-elected as President of the Association of Expellees .
- Darmstadt / Germany : The Berlin writer Reinhard Jirgl is awarded the Georg Büchner Prize .
- Manama / Bahrain : First round of parliamentary elections
- Port-au-Prince / Haiti : Nine months after the severe earthquake , the country is hit by a cholera epidemic that kills more than 138 people.
- Washington, DC / United States : The Internet platform WikiLeaks publishes around 400,000 secret documents of the US armed forces on the Iraq war .
Sunday October 24, 2010
- Nairobi / Kenya and Mogadishu / Somalia : The liquefied gas tanker “York” is hijacked by pirates off the Kenyan coast and the German cargo ship “Beluga Fortune” off the Somali coast .
- Omsk / Russia : Otto Schaude is introduced to the office of Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Urals, Siberia and the Far East and thus succeeds August Kruse .
- Tijuana / Mexico : At least 13 people are killed in an attack.
Monday October 25, 2010
- Jakarta / Indonesia : An earthquake off Sumatra with a magnitude of 7.7 M w and a subsequent tsunami killed at least 449 people and more than 400 more were missing.
Tuesday October 26, 2010
- Baghdad / Iraq : Former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz has been sentenced to death by the Supreme Court for his role in the “destruction of religious parties” .
- Berlin / Germany : An electric-powered Audi A2 covers around 600 kilometers from Munich to Berlin without recharging the batteries, setting a new range record for electric cars.
Wednesday October 27, 2010
- Berlin / Germany : Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen announces that the number of unemployed has fallen below three million people for the first time since 1992. However, the calculation method has also been changed in the meantime.
- Tepic / Mexico : At least 15 people are killed and three others are injured in an attack. Disputes in the area of organized drug crime are suspected to be the cause .
Thursday October 28, 2010
- Berlin / Germany : A majority in the Bundestag resolves to extend the life of the nuclear power plants .
Friday October 29, 2010
- Baquba / Iraq : At least 30 people are killed and more than 70 others are injured in a suicide attack.
Saturday October 30, 2010
- San Pedro Sula / Honduras : At least 14 people are killed in an attack.
Sunday October 31, 2010
- Baghdad / Iraq : A terrorist attack on a Chaldean Catholic church kills 52 and injures another 67.
- Brasília / Brazil : In the runoff election for the presidency , government candidate Dilma Rousseff wins with 55.4% of the vote ; she becomes the first female head of state in her country to succeed Lula da Silva .
- Dodoma / Tanzania : In the presidential election , incumbent Jakaya Kikwete will be re-elected with 62.8% of the vote.
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The Kenyan Wilson Kipsang sets a fastest time in the Frankfurt Marathon with 2:04:57 h and becomes the eighth fastest person over this distance. His compatriot Caroline Cheptanui Kilel also achieved a significant increase in the course record with 2:23:25 h.
- Manama / Bahrain : In the second round of the parliamentary elections , independents achieved surprising success and became the second strongest group (15) after the Shiite Wifak (18 of the 40 seats). The Islamists of El Asala and the Muslim brotherhood El Menbar shrink to 5 seats. King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa instructs his uncle Prince Khalifa to form a government.
- Yamoussoukro / Ivory Coast : In the presidential election reached Laurent Gbagbo 36.6% of the vote, while on Alassane Ouattara 33.8% and Henri Konan Bédié 26.9% of votes are eliminated. Gbagbo and Ouattara will face a runoff election on November 28th.
See also
- Nekrolog October 2010 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in October
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in October
Web links
Commons : October 2010 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ de.reuters.com: Twelve dead in an attack on Nigeria's Independence Day (accessed October 3, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Clear the way for Karstadt takeover by Berggruen (accessed on October 3, 2010).
- ^ Theglobeandmail.com: David Johnston sworn in as Governor-General (accessed October 1, 2010).
- ↑ orf.at: 14 dead in a shootout between drug gangs in Mexico (accessed on October 3, 2010).
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de: CDU excludes Stadtkewitz (accessed on October 7, 2011).
- ↑ nzz.ch: Dead in US drone strikes on two Pakistani villages - "Wall Street Journal" reports increasing air strikes on Taliban (accessed October 3, 2010).
- ↑ orf.at: Enclosed in ruins (accessed October 3, 2010).
- ↑ dw-world.de: Latvian government wins election (accessed October 3, 2010).
- ↑ The long shadow of Versailles. In: rp-online.de . December 3, 2009, accessed September 29, 2018 .
- ↑ derstandard.at: Election in Brazil - Lula's favorite has to go to the runoff election (accessed October 4, 2010).
- ↑ dw-world.de: the battle for medals in New Delhi (accessed on 6 October 2010).
- ↑ de.reuters.com: Choice of direction in Bosnia-Herzegovina has begun (accessed on October 3, 2010).
- ↑ dradio.de: German Book Prize 2010 goes to Melinda Nadj Abonji - Award for "Pigeons fly up" (accessed on October 4, 2010).
- ↑ zeit.de: The search for the culprits begins in Hungary (accessed on October 6, 2010).
- ^ Nobelprize.org: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 (accessed October 4, 2010).
- ^ Nobelprize.org: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 - Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov (accessed October 5, 2010).
- ↑ stern.de: 34 soldiers killed in crashes and explosions in Tajikistan ( memento from March 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 6, 2010).
- ^ Nobelprize.org: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 - Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, Akira Suzuki (accessed October 6, 2010).
- ↑ derstandard.at: Asia: Almost 140 dead after storms (accessed October 7, 2010).
- ↑ nzz.ch: “Strongest typhoon in history off southern China”, accessed on October 20, 2010.
- ↑ rian.ru: Digital Soyuz TMA-M launched and put into orbit (accessed November 20, 2010).
- ^ Nobelprize.org: The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 - Mario Vargas Llosa (accessed October 7, 2010).
- ^ Nobelprize.org: The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 - Liu Xiaobo (accessed October 8, 2010).
- ^ Welt.de: Fear of death on the Baltic Sea - Dramatic rescue from the ferry "Lisco Gloria" (accessed on October 13, 2010).
- ↑ trinews.at, Stefan Leitner: Women ( Memento from March 1, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ trinews.at, Stefan Leitner: Gentlemen ( Memento from March 1, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de: Restructuring - Netherlands Antilles no longer exist (accessed on October 10, 2010).
- ↑ itar-tass.com: Ata Zhur Party wins elections in Kyrgyzstan (accessed on 10 October 2010).
- ^ Fr-online.de: Peace Prize Laureate David Grossman - Israel should be able to reinvent itself (accessed on October 10, 2010).
- ^ Wien.gv.at: Vienna as a whole - municipal council election 2010 (accessed on November 19, 2010).
- ↑ wien.gv.at: Vienna as a whole - district representative elections 2010 (accessed on November 19, 2010).
- ↑ nzz.ch: 925 million people are starving worldwide (accessed on October 11, 2010).
- ^ Nobelprize.org: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010 - Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen, Christopher A. Pissarides (accessed October 11, 2010).
- ↑ focus.de: Ukraine - 40 dead in collision at level crossing (accessed on October 12, 2010).
- ↑ 18 dead in a devastating accident with a minibus. In: Welt Online . October 12, 2010, accessed September 30, 2018 .
- ↑ fr-online.de : Medicine with Embryos ( Memento from October 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ stern.de : All 33 Chilean buddies are saved ( Memento from October 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ noz.de: Federal government promotes imam training in Osnabrück ( Memento from November 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 15, 2010).
- ↑ faz.net: Commonwealth Games - India is celebrating (accessed October 15, 2010).
- ↑ bbc.co.uk: Chinese veteran politicians call for reform (accessed October 14, 2010).
- ↑ bbc.co.uk: Rinderpest virus has been wiped out, scientists say (accessed on October 16, 2010).
- ↑ bbc.co.uk: Swiss complete world's longest tunnel (accessed on October 16, 2010).
- ^ Kosovar government coalition burst (accessed October 16, 2010).
- ↑ focus.de: Mine accident - Chile offers China help (accessed on October 16, 2010).
- ↑ domradio.de: First excommunicated, now holy - Mary MacKillop is Australia's first saint (accessed on October 16, 2010).
- ↑ derstandard.at: UN Species Conservation Conference - Largest dying since the disappearance of the dinosaurs threatens (accessed on October 19, 2010).
- ↑ stern.de: Speech in front of the Turkish parliament: Wulff denounces macho behavior (accessed on October 19, 2010).
- ↑ afp.com: At least 36 dead from typhoon "Megi" in the Philippines ( Memento from April 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Accessed on October 22, 2010
- ↑ dw-world.de: Floods in Benin (accessed on October 19, 2010).
- ↑ stern.de: Great Britain will withdraw all soldiers from Germany by 2020 ( memento from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on October 19, 2010).
- ↑ dw-world.de: Great Britain announces the toughest savings in decades ( memento of October 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 20, 2010).
- ↑ dw-world.de: EU Parliament for longer maternity leave (accessed on October 20, 2010).
- ↑ Pinkwart withdraws from politics. In: rp-online.de . October 21, 2010, accessed September 30, 2018 .
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Majority for Sobjanin in the city parliament - Putin confidante elected mayor of Moscow ( memento of October 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 21, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Awarding of the Sakharov Prize - EU Parliament honors Cuban dissidents (accessed on October 21, 2010).
- ↑ dw-world.de: Flood alarm in Bangkok - Typhoon in China ( Memento from October 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 23, 2010).
- ↑ welt.de: 13 dead in an attack on a teenage party in Mexico (accessed on October 24, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: German-Turkish University - "Now it should finally start" ( Memento from October 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 22, 2010).
- ↑ swr.de: S21 arbitration - arguments are exchanged (accessed on October 22, 2010).
- ↑ suedostschweiz.ch: Israeli breaks simultaneous chess record and displaces Iranians (accessed on October 22, 2010).
- ^ Br-online.de: The case of Walter Mixa - Konrad Zdarsa is Augsburg's shepherd ( Memento from October 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Association of Expellees - Steinbach re-elected as BdV President ( Memento from October 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 23, 2010).
- ↑ derstandard.at: Büchner Prize presented to Reinhard Jirgl (accessed on October 24, 2010).
- ↑ https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/10/20/bahrain-elections-take-place-amid-crackdown
- ↑ de.reuters.com: About 140 dead after cholera outbreak in Haiti (accessed on October 23, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Iraq documents at WikiLeaks - A "drastic portrait" of the war (accessed on October 23, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Kidnappings off Kenya and Somalia - pirates hijack ships with Germans on board (accessed October 24, 2010).
- ^ Jesus.de: Siberian Church: Otto Schaude new bishop of the territorially largest Protestant church in the world (accessed on October 24, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Mexico - Strangers shoot patients in a withdrawal clinic (accessed October 28, 2010).
- ↑ fr-online.de: Indonesia: Number of victims after natural disasters is increasing ( Memento from September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 31, 2010).
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Trial in Iraq - Tarik Asis sentenced to death (accessed on October 26, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: 600 kilometers without recharging - E-car sets record range (accessed on October 26, 2010).
- ↑ focus.de: The number of unemployed slips below 3 million ( memento from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on October 28, 2010).
- ↑ Death squad kills 15 people in car wash. In: Spiegel Online . October 28, 2010, accessed August 21, 2018 .
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Longer maturities based militant debate ( Memento of 29 October 2010 at the Internet Archive ) (accessed 28 October 2010).
- ↑ faz.net: Iraq - At least 30 dead in suicide attack (accessed October 30, 2010).
- ^ Nzz.ch: Bloodbath with 14 dead on football field in Honduras - drug gang kills 14 people (accessed on October 31, 2010).
- ↑ krone.at: hostage-taking in Iraq - dozens of believers killed in hostage drama in church (accessed on November 1, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Brazil - Lula heiress Rousseff wins the presidential election (accessed on November 1, 2010).
- ^ Thecommonwealth.org: 2010 Tanzania General Elections - Interim Statement ( Memento of December 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed November 19, 2010).
- ↑ Leichtathletik.de: record festival crowns the Frankfurt marathon (accessed on October 31, 2010).
- ^ Nzz.ch: Independents win elections in Bahrain (accessed November 1, 2010).
- ^ Nzz.ch: runoff election in Côte d'Ivoire (accessed on November 19, 2010).