Friday Night Lights
Oct 3 American drama series "Friday Night Lights" starring Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton premieres on NBC-TV
Historic Communication
Oct 4 WikiLeaks is launched, created by internet activist Julian Assange
Film & TV History
Oct 7 Novaya Gazeta Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya shot and killed outside her apartment in Moscow
- Oct 9 North Korea conducts its first nuclear test, with an estimated yield of between 0.4-2 kilotons
30 Rock
Oct 11 US sitcom "30 Rock" created by and starring Tina Fey alongside Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan first premieres on NBC in the US
- Oct 12 United States Postal Service designates facility in Green River, Wyoming, as the "Curt Gowdy Post Office Building," honoring the noted broadcaster
Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 13 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to banker Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for microlending to the poor
- Oct 14 MLB American League Championship: Detroit Tigers beat Oakland Athletics, 4 games to 0
- Oct 17 The United States population reaches 300 million
- Oct 19 MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Mets, 4 games to 3
- Oct 22 Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama
F1 World Champion
Oct 22 Spanish Renault driver Fernando Alonso finishes 2nd in season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace to retain Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 13 points from Michael Schumacher
Irreplaceable
Oct 23 "Irreplaceable" single released by Beyonce (Soul Train Music Awards Best R&B/Soul Single 2007, Billboard Song of the Year 2007)
The Black Parade
Oct 23 "The Black Parade" 3rd studio album by My Chemical Romance is released
- Oct 24 Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the "motive clause", an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act
- Oct 24 MESSENGER spacecraft performs a Venus flyby
- Oct 27 Amy Winehouse releases her second and final studio album "Back to Black"
- Oct 27 Baseball World Series: St. Louis beats Detroit Tigers, 4-2 in Game 5 at Busch Stadium to win Cardinals' 10th title in franchise history; MVP: Cardinals infielder David Eckstein
- Oct 28 Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s - early 1940s.
Election of Interest
Oct 29 Lula da Silva is elected President of Brazil defeating Geraldo Alckmin in the second round
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
Suffragists