October 2007
Libra/Scorpio
Adopt-a-Pet Month, Breast Cancer Month, Hunger Month, AIDS Awareness Month, and German-American Heritage Month
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Nuremberg trials of major Nazi war criminals end [1946]
man kills 5 girls in Amish schoolhouse [2006]
Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya shot dead in Moscow [2006]
Reagan designates 1983 as “Year of the Bible” via signing Senate Joint Resolution 165 [1983]
Judaic Shemini Atzeret
Senate votes to prohibit cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of detainees [2005]
Judaic Sukkot ends [began 09-27-07]
Judaic Simchat Torah
Egyptian President and 1978 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Anwar Sadat assassinated [1981]
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Bush, Jr., invades Afghanistan [2001]
Columbus Day observed
(U.S. Federal holiday)
Guatemala mudslide kills 800 [2005]; over 79,000 killed in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan by 7.6 earthquake [2005]
Leif Erikson Day (U.S.)
Uganda Independence Day
direct Venus re-enters Virgo
Gay and Lesbian National Coming Out Day
small plane crashes into N.Y.C. building [2006]
Mercury retrograde in Scorpio
New Moon
Matthew Shepard killed in anti-gay Wyoming hate crime [1998]
Hindu Navaratri begins
[ends 10-20-07]
Republican Rep. Bob Ney pleads guilty to bribery in Abramoff scandal [2006]
Islamic Ramadan ends [began 09-13-07]
Islamic ‘Id al Fitre
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6.3 magnitude earthquake in Hawaii [2006]
Iraq Constitution voted in (includes Islam as official Iraq religion) [2005]
Wall Street crashes [1987] under Reagan
Saddam Hussein trial begins [2005], then postponed until 11-28-05
Hindu Navaratri ends
[began 10-12-07]
Sikh Installation of Guru Granth Sahib;
Sikh Martyrdom of Guru Har Rai;
Baha’i Birth of Bab
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Cuban Missile Crisis begins [1962]: Soviet missile buildup off Cuba revealed by Kennedy on T.V.
Hindu Dasera
former Enron CEO Skilling sentenced to 24 years [2006]; Limbaugh mocks Michael J. Fox [2006]
Sun enters Scorpio;
retrograde Mercury
re-enters Libra
U.S. Patriot Act passed [2001];
Rosa Parks dies at age 92 [2005]
United Nations Day
U.S. soldier death toll in Iraq War hits 2,000 [2005]; Dick Cheney endorses subjecting prisoners to “a dunk in the water” [2006]
Buddhist Pavarana Day
Full Moon
Harriet Miers withdraws as Supreme Court Justice nominee [2005]
Hindu Dusserah
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Cuban Missile Crisis ends [1962];
CIA leak indictment of Cheney’s Chief of Staff Scooter Libby [2005]
Stock Market crash [1929];
Iraq War civilian body count: 26,732 – 30,098 [to date in 2005]
Neptune direct in Aquarius
Halloween
U.S. bombing in Vietnam halted [1968]; Bush, Jr., nominates Alito for Supreme Court [2005]
Pagan Samhain
Mercury direct in Libra
