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2008-10

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  Viswanathan Anand
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  Tzipi Livni
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  Diagram of the Miller-Urey experiment
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  Sachin Tendulkar
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  Ilham Aliyev
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  Stephen Harper
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  Paul Krugman at the German National Library in Frankfurt
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  Martti Ahtisaari
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  Yoichiro Nambu
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  Luc Montagnier

• October 30: A series of bomb blasts in Assam, India kills at least 77 and injures 470.
• October 29: Viswanathan Anand of India defeats Russia's Vladimir Kramnik, retaining his title as the World Chess Champion.
• October 29: After four days of heavy fighting with United Nations peacekeeping forces in Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, rebel general Laurent Nkunda orders a ceasefire.
• October 29: In baseball, the Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Tampa Bay Rays to win the 2008 World Series.
• October 29: Coordinated suicide bombings kill 56 in Hargeisa and Bosaso, Somalia.
• October 29: A 6.4 M_w earthquake kills 215 in Balochistan, Pakistan.
• October 29: Mohamed Nasheed wins the Maldives' first democratic presidential election, unseating incumbent Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
• October 28: United Nations peacekeeping forces engage in heavy fighting with rebel forces led by Laurent Nkunda in Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• October 26: United States Special Forces enter Syrian territory from Iraq to carry out a cross-border raid near Abu Kamal.
• October 26: Kadima leader Tzipi Livni (pictured) calls for early elections in Israel following a failed attempt at forming a coalition government.
• October 25: Severe flooding in Yemen caused by Deep Depression ARB 02 kills 180 and displaces 20,000.
  • Remnants of hurricane ARB 02 over Yemen
• October 23: A bomb attack in Zagreb, Croatia kills Ivo Pukanic, the owner of the newspaper Nacional.
• October 22: The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launches Chandrayaan-1, an unmanned lunar exploration mission.
• October 21: A bomb blast in Imphal, India kills 17 and injures more than 30.
• October 18: Several additional amino acids are found in vials from the 1953 Miller–Urey experiment that probed the origin of life.
• October 18: The United Nations General Assembly elects Turkey, Austria, Japan, Uganda, and Mexico to two-year terms on the Security Council.
• October 18: India's Sachin Tendulkar becomes the leading scorer in Test cricket and the first to pass 12,000 Test runs.
• October 16: Ilham Aliyev is re-elected president of Azerbaijan.
• October 15: Indian writer Aravind Adiga wins the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel, The White Tiger.
• October 15: The 2008 Canadian elections result in a second minority government for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party.
• October 13: U.S. economist Paul Krugman wins the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
• October 12: Alphonsa Muttathupadathu, a nun from Kerala, becomes India's first female saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
• October 11: A 5.8 M_w earthquake kills 13 in Chechnya, Russia.
• October 11: Iceland faces a major financial crisis affecting all three major banks of the country.
• October 10: Martti Ahtisaari, a former President of Finland and a United Nations diplomat, wins the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.
• October 9: With no candidate winning a majority in the first democratic presidential election in the Maldives, the incumbent Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and Mohamed Nasheed move on to a second-round runoff.
• October 9: Franco-Mauritian Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio wins the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.
• October 8: Voters go to the polls in the Maldivian presidential election, the first democratic elections held in the Maldives, with six candidates including incumbent Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
• October 8: The British Government announces details of a financial rescue package aimed at stabilizing and restoring confidence in the British banking sector.
• October 8: Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien win the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein.
• October 7: The meteoroid 2008 TC₃ burns up in Earth's atmosphere, becoming the first such object to be discovered prior to impact.
• October 7: Yoichiro Nambu, who discovered the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in subatomic physics, and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, who discovered the origin of the broken symmetry, win the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
• October 6: Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus, and Harald zur Hausen, who discovered that human papilloma viruses can cause cervical cancer in women, are announced as winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
• October 1: President George W. Bush of the United States signs the revised Emergency Economic Stabilization Act into law after passage in the Congress.
• October 1: Fifty Somali pirates capture the Ukrainian cargo ship MV Faina, along with its cargo of weapons and ammunition, and 33 T-72 tanks.