Portal:Current events/October 2004/Sidebar

Deaths

October 29 HRH Princess Alice October 25 John Peel October 24 James Aloysius Hickey October 23 Robert Merrill October 19 Paul Nitze October 18 K. M. Veerappan October 16 Pierre Salinger October 10 Christopher Reeve October 9 Max Faget October 8 Jacques Derrida October 6 John A. Kelley October 5 Maurice Wilkins October 5 Rodney Dangerfield October 4 Gordon Cooper October 3 Janet Leigh October 1 Joyce Jillson October 1 Richard Avedon October 1 Juraj Beneš More deaths

Ongoing events
Ramadan (Oct 15 – Nov 14) AIDS pandemic al-Qaqaa missing explosives Iran's nuclear program Nigerian oil crisis Same-sex marriage debates 2004 Atlantic hurricane season 2004 Pacific hurricane season

Ongoing armed conflicts
War on Terrorism Arab-Israeli conflict Russia-Chechnya conflict Second Congo War Second Sudanese Civil War Conflict in Iraq Darfur conflict in Sudan

Elections
October 31: Botswana: general October 9: Afghanistan: presidential October 9: Australia: legislative October 3: Slovenia: parliamentary October 1: Ireland: presidential

Ongoing trials
Chile: Augusto Pinochet ICTY: Slobodan Milošević trial Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal Saddam Hussein, among others US: Scott Peterson US: Michael Jackson US: Zacarias Moussaoui