2009 Review: October

RIAN News Service looks back at the main events of the outgoing year; below a month-by-month review of 2009 continues with October:

October 1

* The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe rejects Georgia's motion to strip Russia of voting rights over last year's conflict in South Ossetia

* The People's Republic of China celebrates the 60th anniversary of its founding with a vast display of the country's military might on Tiananmen Square

October 2

* Russia extends a moratorium on human cloning that expired two years ago by five years

October 3

* Ireland votes "Yes" to the Lisbon Treaty setting out rules for decision-making in the European Union

October 5

* The Nobel Prize for medicine is given to three U.S. scientists for their research into how the human body protects chromosomes

October 6

* Three scientists share the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics for helping develop fiber optic cables and digital photography technology

October 9

* U.S. President Barack Obama is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

October 10

* Turkey and Armenia sign historic accords restoring diplomatic relations and opening borders between the two countries

October 19

* Ukraine officially launches a presidential election campaign, the first since the 2004 "orange revolution" that swept Viktor Yushchenko to power

October 22

* Russia's Memorial human rights group is awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament

October 25

* At least 136 people are killed and more than 500 wounded in one of this year's deadliest attacks in Iraq

October 30

* Representatives of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the country's de facto leader Roberto Micheletti agree a deal that could pave the way for Zelaya's reinstatement