His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.

* October 1 – Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida

Disney World opened on October 1, 1971 with only the Magic Kingdom theme park and has since added Epcot ( October 1, 1982 ), Disney's Hollywood Studios ( May 1, 1989 ) and Disney's Animal Kingdom ( April 22, 1998 ).

Before the park debuted on October 1, 1982, Walt Disney World Ambassador Genie Field introduced E. Cardon Walker, Disney's chairman and CEO, who dedicated EPCOT Center.

* October 1, 2007: Epcot celebrates its 25th Anniversary with a rededication ceremony, special fireworks display, a gallery exhibition showcasing EPCOT Center memorabilia, and exclusive presentations by Disney Legend Marty Sklar.

As early as October, 1945, a newspaper strip named Walt Disney Presents " Uncle Remus " and His Tales of Brer Rabbit appeared in the United States, and this production continued until 1972.

Secretariat, a Disney live-action film written by Mike Rich and directed by Randall Wallace, was released on October 8, 2010.

In his excited response dated October 26, 1937, Disney wrote that he felt " all steamed up over the idea of Stokowski working with us ... The union of Stokowski and his music, together with the best of our medium, would be the means of a success and should lead to a new style of motion picture presentation.

In October 2007, the Horseshoe Falls was featured in a Disney produced video titled Welcome: Portraits of America, made for the United States Department of State and Department of Homeland Security to promote United States tourism.

On October 3, 2009, Disney announced that the staff of Miramax was to be reduced by 70 %, and the number of releases would be reduced by half to just three films per year.

On October 30, 2009, Disney announced the resignation of Daniel Battsek as President of Miramax Films, effective when the transition from the studio in New York to Burbank was completed.

In 1937 Western, as the request of Kay Kamen ( who oversaw licensing and marketing at Disney ), assumed production of the newsstand version of Mickey Mouse Magazine, which in October 1940 was succeeded by the comic book Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.

ET on October 7, 2002, Disney Channel introduced a new on-air appearance with a new logo designed by CA Square ( using an outline of Mickey Mouse's head as its centerpiece ) that was adopted by its international sister channels in May 2003, and unveiling a new graphics designed to fit the network's new look.

Since October 2010, programming on both night's schedules has been somewhat fluid as while all series have a permanent place on the Friday and Sunday primetime schedules, episode premieres of all Disney Channel original series are subject to being rotated on and off the schedule depending on the schedule for that given week as they usually air as part of a 90-minute block from 8 – 9: 30 p. m. ET / PT on Friday evenings and 7: 30 – 9 p. m. ET / PT on Sunday evenings.

Wilson's second album for Disney was In The Key Of Disney, a collection of classic Disney movie songs, which was released on October 25, 2011.

In October 2011 the show-business paper Variety reported that Disney Theatrical Productions, linked to Miramax through former owners Disney Corporation, intend to mount a stage version of the movie in London.

Starting on October 2, 1995, Darkwing Duck was rerun on the Disney Channel as part of a two-hour programming block called " Block Party " which aired on weekdays in the late-afternoon / early-evening and which also included TaleSpin, DuckTales, and Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers.

Recorded on October 27, 1966, less than two months before his death, Walt Disney made a 25-minute film about his plans for the Florida Project, then dubbed " Disney World ".

For eleven weeks, between August and October 1979, industrial action forced Coronation Street and the whole of the ITV network ( apart from the Channel Islands ) off the air.

On 28 July 2010 Deutsche Bahn ( DB ) announced that it intended to make a test run with a high-speed ICE-3MF train through the Channel Tunnel in October 2010 in preparation for possible future operations.

In 1805, Napoleon planned to invade Britain, but a renewed British alliance with Russia and Austria ( Third Coalition ), forced him to turn his attention towards the continent, while at the same time failure to lure the superior British fleet away from the English Channel, ending in a decisive French defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October put an end to hopes of an invasion of Britain.

The Discovery Channel aired the " How Evil are You " segment of Curiosity which aired on October 30, 2011.

In 1805, Napoleon planned to invade Britain, but a renewed British alliance with Russia and Austria ( Third Coalition ), forced him to turn his attention towards the continent, while at the same time failure to lure the superior British fleet away from the English Channel, ending in a decisive French defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October put an end to hopes of an invasion of Britain.

* On October 5, 2003, psychological illusionist Derren Brown appeared to take part in a game of Russian roulette on British television Channel 4.

This ban was imposed by the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher on 19 October 1988, the reason given being to " starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend " after the BBC interviewed Martin McGuinness and Adams had been the focus of a row over an edition of After Dark, an intended Channel 4 discussion programme which was never made.

* 26 October 1890: His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, who on a private visit to Paris, booked a table to see this quadrille whose reputation had already crossed the Channel.

On 5 October 2011 at the Royal Festival Hall, London Gabriel appeared at the end of an interview of President Carter by Channel 4 News presenter, Jon Snow, to lead the 2, 500-strong audience in a rendition of happy birthday to mark the President turning 87.

* The Dreyfus Trilogy by George Whyte ( in collaboration with Luciano Berio, Jost Meier and Alfred Schnittke ) comprising the opera Dreyfus-Die Affäre ( Deutsche Oper Berlin, 8 May 1994 ; Theater Basle, 16 October 1004 ; The Dreyfus Affair New York City Opera, April 1996 ); the dance drama Dreyfus-J ' accuse ( Oper der Stadt Bonn, 4 September 1994 ) and the musical satire Rage et Outrage ( Arte, April 1994 ; Zorn und Schande, Arte 1994 ; Rage and Outrage Channel 4, May 1994.

Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).

Athens was vaunted as one of the top fifteen most haunted cities in America on the Fox Family Channel special " Scariest Places On Earth " that aired on October 23, 2000.

There is no comparable British commercial network as Channel 4 abandoned plans to launch its own speech-based digital radio station in October 2008 as part of a £ 100m cost cutting review.

* Visual neuron of the locust, Ri Channel video, October 2011

* In October 1986, the Israeli Channel 2 started experimental broadcasts which continued for a period of seven years.

In Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, a Flemish Discovery Channel launched ( previously the Dutch version was available for IPTV, DVB-C and DVB-S ) on Cable ( and digital ) Television on October 1, 2009.

On October 30, 2009, The Weather Channel, in a move deemed controversial by many longtime viewers, began airing weather related movies on Friday nights.

From October 1996 to August 1999, Bodrov was a host of the show View ( Vzglyad ) on Channel One.

The students were also interviewed for the nation-wide, fifteen minute television news show, Channel One News, where the episode was aired on October 25.

On 11 October 2006, ITV plc and Channel 4 became equal shareholders.

* October 5 – Monty Python's Flying Circus first airs on BBC One.

* June 1 – The final new episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs ( the first episode aired on October 3, 1961 ).

* October 11 – NBC airs the first episode of Saturday Night Live ( George Carlin is the first host ; Billy Preston and Janis Ian the first musical guests ).

The one-hour pilot for a revived show, called Hawaii Five-0 ( the last character is a zero instead of the letter " O "), aired September 20, 2010 on CBS, and as of October 2010, the series now airs Monday nights at 10 PM Eastern, 9 PM Central time.

* October 27 – The 5000th episode of Captain Kangaroo airs.

* October 27 – It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown airs for the first time on CBS.

* October 2 – The first television network soap opera, Faraway Hill, airs on the DuMont Network.

CNBC, which airs only one hour of infomercials nightly during the business week, airs up to 28 hours of infomercials on Saturdays and Sundays during the time where the network's business news coverage otherwise airs ; since the September – October 2008 financial crisis, CNBC has inserted a paid programming bug on the top right corner of the screen during all airings of infomercials.

Cuban followed up his intentions by organizing " HDNet Fights ", a mixed martial arts promotion which airs exclusively on HDNet and premiered on October 13, 2007 with a card headlined by a fight between Erik Paulson and Jeff Ford as well as fights featuring veterans Drew Fickett and Justin Eilers.

Treehouse TV is a cable television specialty channel which airs programing targeted to preeschoolers that launched on October 17, 1997.

The show airs on Syfy's Ani-Mondays with two episodes back-to-back each Monday night at 11: 00 p. m. EST, beginning October 12, 2009.

It proved successful, and thus on October 22, 2001, owner Radio One finally moved the radio format and the WHTA call letters to the stronger 107. 9 as " Hot 107. 9 " where it still airs today.

* TRT Gap ( launched October 1989 )-TRT Gap airs programming aimed at the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey.

* October 17 – James Burke's history of science series Connections first airs, on BBC Television in the United Kingdom ( with accompanying book ).

The success of 25 Days of Christmas led to this holiday spin-off, which airs from October 19 to October 31 each year.

In 1997, AMC started Monsterfest, a week long marathon of scary movies that airs in late October.

Due to its affiliation with the LDS Church, KSL, along with its television counterparts and other LDS-affiliated outlets in Utah, also airs simulcasts of its General Conferences, held twice a year during April and October.

* October 29 – A videotape of Osama Bin Laden speaking airs on Arabic TV, in which he threatens terrorist attacks on the USA, and taunts the President, George W. Bush, over the September 11 Terrorist attacks.

The CBC's flagship newscast, The National, airs weeknights and Sundays at 10: 00 p. m. and Saturdays at 6: 00 p. m. Until October 2006, CBC-owned and operated stations aired a second broadcast of the program at 11 p. m ; this later broadcast included only the main news portion of the program, and excluded the analysis and documentary segment.

As of October 2007, it airs on the TV3 network in Estonia as Armastuseta sinu ( Yours Without Love ).

As of October 2009, the program also now airs on CBC Radio One in Canada from 1 to 2 a. m. weekdays.