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Ongoing events • Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal • Atlantic hurricane season • Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak in Asia • Bali bombings investigation • California wildfires • UK Conservative Party leadership election • DeLay political financing scandal • Dengue outbreak in Singapore • FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 • Fiji Week, 2005 • Fuel prices • Gomery Comm. (sponsorship scandal) • Harriet Miers nomination and hearings • Hurricane Katrina relief effort • Iran's nuclear program • London bombings investigation • Malawi food crisis • National Folk Festival (US) • Niger food crisis • North Korea's nuclear program • Pacific hurricane season • Pacific typhoon season • Plame CIA leak investigation • South Asia earthquake • Zimbabwe home demolitions Upcoming events October 13: Shenzhou 6 launch October 15: Millions More March Deaths in October 3: Ronnie Barker 2: August Wilson 2: Nipsey Russell Other recent deaths Upcoming elections October 9: Polish presidential October 11: Liberian presidential & parliamentary October 15: Iraqi constitution vote October 30: Tanzanian elections November 6: Azerbaijani parliamentary Electoral calendar Recent election results September 7: Egyptian presidential September 11: Japanese general September 12: Norwegian parliamentary September 17: New Zealand general September 18: German federal September 18: Afghan parliamentary September 25: Polish parliamentary September 25: Macau legislative September 29: Somaliland parliamentary Ongoing armed conflicts • Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada) • Second Chechen War • Second Congo War • Conflict in Iraq • Darfur conflict in Sudan • Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire • Conflict in northern Uganda • South Thailand insurgency Ongoing wars Upcoming holidays and observances October 9: Leif Erikson Day (USA) 10: Thanksgiving (Canada) 10: Double Tenth Day (Republic of China) 11: Double Ninth Festival (Chinese calendar) 11: National Coming Out Day (USA) 12: Columbus Day (USA) 12: Día de la Raza (Latin America) 12: Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Venezuela) 12: Hispanic Day (Spain) 12: Dussehra (India) 12: Yom Kippur (Judaism, begins at sunset) 17: Sukkot begins (Judaism, begins at sunset) 24: 21 Ramadan (Islam, begins at sunset, depends on when Ramadan begins) 24: Labour Day (New Zealand) 26: National Day (Austria) 30: Laylat al-Qadr (Islam, begins at sunset, depends on when Ramadan begins) November 3: Eid ul-Fitr (Islam, begins at sunset, depends on new moon) Ongoing trials Chile: Augusto Pinochet Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal — Saddam Hussein, among others Neth.: ICTY — Slobodan Milošević, among others Russia: Nur-Pashi Kulayev UK: Railtrack shareholders US: Zacarias Moussaoui US: Brian Nichols Related pages About this page Year in... Wikipedia Announcements