October 2008

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October 2008 is the tenth month of the current leap year. It will begin on a Wednesday and will end after 31 days on a Friday. It is the current month.

[edit] Scheduled events

• October - The ISRO's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft will be launched to the Moon.^[1]
• October 2 - Marthandam Elakiya Peravai [Marthandam Literature Forum] is about to conduct Gandhi Jayanthi celebration on 2nd October 2008 at Bethlehem College, Karungal,Kanyakumari District.^[2]
• October 4 - The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta begins, starting the 9 day celebration that is the biggest in the world with more than 750 balloons.
• October 6 - The NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will make its second last flyby of Mercury, decreasing the velocity for orbital insertion on March 18, 2011.^[3]
• October 10 - On STS-125, the Space Shuttle Atlantis will conduct the last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. It will be one of the most advanced missions in space.^[4][5][6]
• October 13 - Columbus Day (observed) in many U.S. states.
• October 14 - The 40th Canadian General Election is held to elect members to the Canadian House of Commons of the 40th Canadian Parliament.
• October 21 - Official inauguration of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is a collaboration of over eight-thousand physicists from over eighty-five countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.^[7]
• October 30 – November 16 - The inaugural FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup will be held in New Zealand.^[8]

[edit] Portal:Current events

Jodhpur mourns victims of temple tragedy. [1]

Current events of October 2, 2008 (2008-10-02) (Thursday) edit history watch

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