1 October 2005 (Saturday)
- João Bernardo Vieira becomes the new President of Guinea-Bissau; he faces a massive cholera epidemic and fears of continuing political instability in the country.
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)