October 2006 Timeline
October 1The opposition Social Democrats won the Austrian general elections
October 2
A gunmen killed 5 young girls and wounded 6 more in Amish school in Pennsylvania
October 3
Mirek Topolanek’s minority government lost a vote of confidence in Czech parliament
October 7
Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent Russian journalist, was found shot dead in Moscow
October 9
North Korea announced it had carried out a nuclear test
October 10
Google bought YouTube for $1.65bn
October 11
Small aircraft crashed into New York building, Yankees baseball pitcher Cory Lidle was killed, along with his flight instructor
October 13
Ban Ki-moon was elected secretary general of the United Nations
October 13
Economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize
October 14
Peru guerilla leader Abimael Guzman was sentenced to life in prison by a Peruvian civil tribunal in Callao for terrorism
October 16
At least 99 people were killed in a Tamil Tiger suicide attack on a military bus convoy in northern Sri Lanka
October 17
US population reached 300 million people
October 17
The Council officially approved of Bulgaria joining the EU on January 1, 2007
October 22
Renault's Fernando Alonso won the 2006 FIA Formula One World Championship
October 23
Voters in Panama approved the project to expand the Panama canal, linking the Pacific and Atlantic
October 25
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he will not run for 3rd term
October 27
The St. Louis Cardinals won the 2006 World Series
October 29
Georgi Parvanov won the Bulgarian presidential elections
October 29
Nigerian airliner, carrying 104 passengers, crashed near Abuja airport killing 97 people on board
October 29
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was re-elected Brazilian president