Following the assassination in Parliament of Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and parliament Speaker Karen Demirchyan and six other officials, on 27 October 1999, a period of political instability ensued during which an opposition headed by elements of the former Armenian National Movement government attempted unsuccessfully to force Kocharyan to resign.

* Homer Hickam, Jr .' s book Rocket Boys was adapted into the 1999 film October Sky.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Akio Morita ( 盛田 昭夫 Morita Akio, January 26, 1921, Nagoya, Aichi – October 3, 1999, Tokyo ) was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation along with Masaru Ibuka.

On October 3, 1999, Morita died of pneumonia at the age of 78.

In October 1999 the California State Attorney General sued 13 key manufacturers and distributors over lead content.

Eight more VHS compilations were released between 1996 and 1999 in the United States, before the final volume, Butt-O-Ween, was issued in October 1999.

After facilitator Julius Nyerere's death in October 1999, the regional leaders appointed Nelson Mandela as Facilitator of the Arusha peace process.

" Burroughs Third-Generation Computers ", Unisys History Newsletter, Volume 3, Number 5, October 1999.

The bright design of the set was also blamed for this – one insider reportedly described it as a " car crash in a shower " – and was subject to the network relaunch on 25 October 1999.

It merged with the Dutch steel producer Koninklijke Hoogovens to form Corus Group on 6 October 1999.

For instance, the euro hit $ 1. 42 in October 2007, the strongest it has been since its birth in 1999.

Costa Rican colones (₡) per US $ 1 – 512. 11 ( September 4, 2010 ), US $ 1 – 559. 51 ( October 24, 2008 ), per US $ 1 – 500. 10 ( December 2007 ), 516. 78 ( November 2007 ), 506. 11 ( April 2006 ), 479. 57 ( July 2005 ), 299. 63 ( February 2000 ), 285. 68 ( 1999 ), 257. 23 ( 1998 ), 232. 60 ( 1997 ), 207. 69 ( 1996 ) and 179. 73 ( 1995 )

The entire twenty-six episodes of the series were later broadcast on WOWOW on October 23, 1998 and ran until April 23, 1999.

# Random Acts of Management — October 19, 1998 to July 25, 1999

In October 1999, the group was dropped form the United States ' list of terror organizations.

In 1999, objects large enough to be seen under an electron microscope — buckyball molecules ( diameter about 0. 7 nm, nearly half a million times larger than a proton ) — were found to exhibit wave-like interference .< ref > Nature: Wave – particle duality of C < sub > 60 </ sub > molecules, 14 October 1999.

* The Cathedral and the Bazaar ( O ' Reilly ; hardcover ISBN 1-56592-724-9, October 1999 ; paperback ISBN 0-596-00108-8, January 2001 ) — includes " The Cathedral and the Bazaar ", " Homesteading the Noosphere ", " The Magic Cauldron " and " Revenge of the Hackers "

In other areas of the West Bank, transfer of powers took place pursuant to the Israel-PLO 28 September 1995 Interim Agreement, the Israel-PLO 15 January 1997 Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron, the Israel-PLO 23 October 1998 Wye River Memorandum, and the 4 September 1999 Sharm el-Sheikh Agreement.

To create buzz for the project, Brooks took on the identity of Gaines in the October 1999 album Garth Brooks in ...

Brooks and Mahl separated in March 1999, announcing their plans to divorce on October 9, 2000, and filing for divorce on November 6, 2000.

On October 16, 1997, Engdahl became a member of the Swedish Academy, elected to seat number 17 vacated by the death of Johannes Edfelt ; on June 1, 1999, he succeeded Sture Allén as the Academy's permanent secretary, i. e. its executive member and spokesperson.

Final Astros regular season game ( in the Astrodome ) on October 3, 1999

A Canadian bagpiper playing " Amazing Grace " during a memorial service, October 29, 2009, at Forward Operating Base Wilson, Afghanistan

A classic use of an abatis was found at the Battle of the Chateauguay, 26 October 1813, when approximately 1, 300 Canadian voltigeurs, under the command of Charles-Michel de Salaberry, defeated an American corps of approximately 2, 300 men.

More recently, Canadian newspapers have adopted the British spelling variants such as-our endings, notably with The Globe and Mail changing its spelling policy in October 1990.

In October 2011, the Canadian Federal Government licensed the CANDU design to Candu Energy ( a wholly owned subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin ), which also acquired the former reactor development and marketing division of AECL at that time.

Also, there had been reports of intimidation from the side of the contras, with a Canadian observer mission confirming 42 people killed by the contras in " election violence " in October 1989.

An October 2007 referendum in the Canadian province of Ontario on adopting a Mixed Member Proportional system, also requiring 60 % approval, failed with only 36. 9 % voting in favour.

The Canadian commitment was originally planned to last to October 2003.

The European Greenpeace paid the debt of the Canadian Greenpeace office and on October 14, 1979, Greenpeace International came into existence.

Suspension of the writ in Canadian history occurred famously during the October Crisis, during which the War Measures Act was invoked by the Governor General of Canada on the constitutional advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who had received a request from the Quebec Cabinet.

* Canadian poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen recited the poem as an introduction to his own song " The Darkness ", during a couple of shows on his 2010 world tour, most notably at his State Kremlin Palace show on 7 October.

As of 25 October 2009, Canadian visa requests were being denied and Canadian travelers were told they were not welcome in Libya.

Louis David Riel (, ; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885 ) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political and spiritual leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies.

On 17 October 1972, a powerful bomb detonated inside the Sheraton Hotel in Buenos Aires, to the horror of nearly 700 guests, killing a Canadian woman and gravely wounding her husband.

A brief dramatic episode of Marxist-Leninist revolution took place in North America during the October Crisis in the province of Quebec in Canada, where the Marxist-Leninist and Quebec separatist Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnapped the British Trade Commissioner in Canada, James Cross, and Quebec government minister Pierre Laporte who was later killed, it issued a manifesto condemning what it considered English Canadian imperialism in French Quebec calling for an independent, socialist Quebec.

A majority of the surviving Nez Perce were finally forced to surrender on October 5, 1877 after the Battle of the Bear Paw Mountains in Montana only 40 miles from the Canadian border.

Seton, a British-born Canadian living in the United States, met Baden-Powell in October 1906, and they shared ideas about youth training programs.

The event was held, following an appearance on Saturday Night Live on October 30, on Thanksgiving Day of 1976 at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California, and featured a horn section with arrangements by Allen Toussaint and a stellar list of guests, including other Canadian acts Joni Mitchell and Neil Young.

* October 6 – Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player

* October 29 – Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor

* October 26 – Marc Lépine, Canadian mass murderer ( d. 1989 )

* October 31 – Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver ( b. 1975 )

In 1970, radical Quebec nationalist and Marxist militants of the Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnap the Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James Cross during the October Crisis, resulting in Laporte being killed, and the enactment of martial law in Canada under the War Measures Act, resulting in a campaign by the Canadian government which arrests suspected FLQ supporters.

* October 5 – STS-41-G: Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.