Portal:Current events/October 2009/Sidebar

Ongoing events
Economic Automotive industry crisis Financial crisis Worldwide recession Medical H1N1/09 flu pandemic West African meningitis outbreak HIV/AIDS in Africa Scientific Expedition 21 Political Honduran constitutional crisis Nigerien constitutional crisis Ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon

Recent deaths

October 31: Tsien Hsue-shen 29: Norman Painting 28: Taylor Mitchell 27: David Shepherd 23: Lou Jacobi 22: Soupy Sales 20: Clifford Hansen 19: Howard Unruh 19: Joseph Wiseman 18: Ludovic Kennedy 17: Jay W. Johnson 17: Vic Mizzy 16: Robert William Davis 14: Lou Albano 14: Bruce Wasserstein 13: Al Martino 12: Frank Vandenbroucke 12: Ian Wallace 10: Joan Orenstein 10: Stephen Gately 9: Barry Letts 9: John Daido Loori

Ongoing conflicts

Worldwide War on terror Africa / Middle East Fourth Chadian Civil War Iraq War Israeli–Palestinian conflict Maghreb insurgency Niger Delta conflict Shia insurgency in Yemen Somali Civil War Turkey–PKK conflict Asia War in Afghanistan Balochistan conflict Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Insurgency in the Philippines Ethnic conflict in Nagaland Naxalite–Maoist insurgency War in North-West Pakistan South Thailand insurgency Americas Colombian conflict Mexican drug war

Elections

Recent September 25: Aruba, Parliament 27: Germany, Parliament 27: Portugal, Parliament 27: Switzerland, Referendum October 2: Ireland, Treaty of Lisbon referendum 4: Greece, Parliament 16: Botswana, Parliament 20: Niger, Parliament 25: Tunisia, General 25: Uruguay, General 26: Marshall Islands, President 28: Mozambique, General Upcoming: November 7 November: Northern Mariana Islands, Governor and Legislative

Trials

Recently concluded Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi Canada: Larry O'Brien New Zealand: Clayton Weatherston Peru: Alberto Fujimori Sweden: The Pirate Bay Republic of China: Chen Shui-bian United States: James Charles Kopp, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Phil Spector, Bernard Madoff, William J. Jefferson Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal France: Church of Scientology Germany: Heinrich Boere Iraq]: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY) Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra United States: Jena Six Upcoming Germany: John Demjanjuk Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein United Kingdom: Allen Stanford United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Ehren Watada, Sheila Dixon, Joseph Bruno

Holidays  and observances

October Current 30: Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions (Former Soviet Republics) Upcoming 31: Halloween 31: King-Father's Birthday (Cambodia) 31: Allantide (Cornwall) 31: Hop-tu-Naa (Isle of Man) 31: Nevada Day (Nevada) 31: Reformation Day (Slovenia, Northeastern Germany, Lutheranism, & Reformed churches) 31 – November 1: Samhain (Gaelic, Pagan, Wicca in Northern Hemisphere) 31 – November 1: Beltane (Gaelic, Pagan, Wicca in Southern Hemisphere) 1: All Saints' Day (Western Christianity) 1: World Vegan Day 1: National Day (Algeria) 1: Independence Day (Antigua & Barbuda) 1: State Day (India) 1: Karnataka Rajyotsava (Karnataka) 1: National Authors' Day (United States) 1: National Family Literacy Day (United States) 1: Calan Gaeaf (Wales) 1–2: Day of the Dead (Mexico) 2: All Souls' Day (Western Christianity) 2: Haile Selassie I Coronation (Rastafari) 2: Indian Arrival Day (Mauritius) 2: Statehood Day (North Dakota), Statehood Day (South Dakota))