October 2001
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Events of the day
Tuesday, October 2
- The Swiss airline Swissair has to because of illiquidity all air operations temporarily cease.
Thursday, October 4
- Macedonia to the NATO Operation Amber Fox.
Sunday, October 7
- Afghanistan and the United States: In response to the September 11 attacks begin, the U.S. and its allies, the coalition of the willing with the Operation Enduring Freedom. The first objective will be the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Thursday, October 11
- Germany: State visit of King Abdullah II of Jordan.
Monday, October 15
- South Korea: Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologized to South Korea with a wreath-laying ceremony for the atrocities committed by the Japanese during the occupation of Korea, 1910-1945.
Friday, October 19
- Parliamentary elections in Mongolia.
- Norway: Kjell Magne Bondevik is Prime Minister.
Saturday, October 20
- Serbia and Montenegro: joining the IMF (International Monetary Fund).
Tuesday, October 23
- The Hague: On appeal, the judgment of 14 January 2000, three of the five then acquitted for the massacre of Ahmici condemned and reduced the sentences of two others convicted of 12 and 18.
Monday, October 29
- Luxembourg: The Stabilisation and Association Agreement between Croatia and the European Union is signed in Luxembourg.