Portal:Current events/2002 October 31
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October 31, 2002
(Thursday)
- Nine bombs explode in Soweto, South Africa and the vicinity and one near Pretoria.
- Over a million people gather in Greenwich Village to celebrate Halloween.
- Pat Buchanan denounces Canada as Soviet Canuckistan over the warning issued by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs regarding travel to the US.
- The Russian Health Minister Yuri Shevchenko has now stated that the incapacitating agent used in the storming of the Moscow theatre siege was a fentanyl derivative.