2007 Timeline

Argentine gets first female president and other October 2007 events

Argentine President Néstor Kirchner's wife, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner won the Argentine Presidential Elections and became the second female president (after Isabel Martínez de Perón) in Argentina on October 28, 2007, but the first to be elected. She won the Presidential Elections in the first round with 45,29% of the vote, followed by 22% for Elisa Carrió (candidate for the Civic Coalition) and 16% for former Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna. Christina, as the majority of Argentines call her, sworn in on December 10, 2007.

Timeline of October 2007 events

October 2
- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il met in Pyongyang.

October 3
- Founder of Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA) and co-founder of Ryanair, Tony Ryan died at age 71.
- North Korea agreed to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon until December 31.

October 5
- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf signed the National Reconciliation Ordinance which granted an amnesty to Benazir Bhutto and other political leaders except former premier Nawaz Sharif.
- Spanish authorities arrested 22 people associated with the banned Batasuna party.

October 6
- US athlete Marion Jones pleaded guilty to lying about her steroid use to US investigators.
- Pervez Musharraf won the Pakistani Presidential Elections.

October 9
- About 250 people were killed in fighting between the Pakistani army and Islamic militants in North Waziristan.
- Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics.

October 10
- Gerhard Ertl won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

October 12
- Former US Vice-President Al Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

October 14
- Turkish forces bombed Kurdish rebel targets in Northern Iraq without the formal approval of the Turkish Parliament.

October 15
- The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China took place.

October 16
- Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero rejected proposals for a 2008 referendum on Basque County future relationship with Spain.
- Macedonian and Balkan pop star Toše Proeski died in a car accident at age 26.

October 17
- Turkish Parliament approved the military operations in northern Iraq.

October 18
- The French presidential office announced that Nicolas and Cecile Sarkozy divorced.
- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto arrived in Pakistan.
- Over 130 people were killed in a failed attack on the former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

October 20
- South Africa won the Rugby World Cup 2007 final in Stade de France, Paris. - A series of wildfires began burning across Southern California that destroyed at least 1,500 homes and over 500,000 acres (2,000 km²) of land until the last fire was fully contained on November 9, 2007.

October 21
- Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (CVP/PDC) won the Swiss Federla Elections.
- Civic Platform led by Donald Tusk won the Polish Parliamentary Elections.
- Finish Formula One racing driver became the Formula One World Drivers' Champion.

October 22
- Hu Jintao was re-elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission.

October 23
- Space Shuttle Discovery was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center.

October 25
- Sudanese human rights lawyer Salih Mahmoud Osman won the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

October 26
- Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was cleared of corruption charges.
- Apple Inc. released Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

October 28
- Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner won the Argentine Presidential Elections and became the first female elected president in Argentina.
- The Boston Red Sox won the 2007 World Series.

October 29
- Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi resigned.
- Nine French citizens and the Spanish crew of a chartered plane were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping of over 100 children in the eastern town of Abeche, Chad.

October 31
- A bus bomb in the central Russian city of Tolyatti killed 8 and injured over 50 people.
- 21 were convicted and 7 acquitted for their part in the Madrid bombings in 2004.