17 October 2005 (Monday)
- The UK Conservative Party demands the Labour government appoint a front-bench minister with responsibility for co-ordinating avian influenza policy (BBC)
- The UK Conservative Party begin voting on a new leader following the resignation of Michael Howard. (BBC)
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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)