| 1 October 2008

As of October 2008, the Armenian government is considering implementing an ambitious project to build a railway to Iran.

In October 2008 the Russian bank Gazprombank, the banking arm of Gazprom, acquired 100 percent of Armenian bank Areximbank after previously buying 80 percent of said bank in November 2007 and 94. 15 percent in July of the same year.

On October 7, 2008, Armenia withdrew its contingent of 46 peacekeepers.

The " Theater am Bahnhof " ( Theatre at the Railway Station ) is mostly used by the Theatergruppe Lampenfieber and was opened on 19 October 2008.

On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the AMEX for $ 260 million in stock ; on October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext completed the acquisition.

The American Stock Exchange merged with the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE Euronext ) on October 1, 2008.

In October 2008, the United States Department of Justice defined an Alford plea as: " when a the defendant maintains his or her innocence with respect to the charge to which he or she offers to plead guilty ".

On October 11, 2008, Infogrames completed its acquisition of Atari Inc., making it a wholly owned subsidiary.

This would be later broken by Sachin Tendulkar of India on 17 October 2008 whilst playing against Australia at Mohali in the 2nd Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2008.

* He was the all-time leading run scorer in Test cricket, a record he attained on 26 November 2005 until surpassed by Sachin Tendulkar on 17 October 2008.

The fourth revamp, which happened with the issue dated 18 October 2008 had been the most major revamp to date.

On 30 October 2008 a spokesman for the team announced that the team would complete its last three performances of the year with five jets instead of six.

TACV Cabo Verde Airlines opened a route from London Stansted in October 2008 though it was rumoured that flights were being cancelled due to minimum take up though with effect from May 2008, TACV now fly direct from London Gatwick every Thursday to Sal and Praia.

As the February 28, 2008 deadline to approve or reject CAFTA loomed, Arias decided to call for the referendum himself, and it took take place on October 7, 2007.

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 A4 connection from Zagreb to Varaždin and Čakovec exists since 2003, which was extended to the Hungarian border in October 2008 to complete the upgrade of the European route E71.

The A6 route between Rijeka and Zagreb was constructed as an expressway in spring 2004, and upgraded to a full motorway in October 2008, thus upgrading the Croatian section of the European route E65.

On October 22, 2008, the soccer team snapped a 201-game losing streak with a last-second goal against Cal Lutheran University, 1 – 0.

Kung Te-cheng died in October 2008, and his son, Kung Wei-yi, the 78th lineal descendant, had died in 1989.

The 153rd Engineer Battalion based in Olomouc was created on 15 October 2008 and is subordinated to the 15th Engineer Brigade, Joint Forces Command.

Czech BMP-2 | BVP-2 on a Military parade in Prague, 28 October 2008.

Christopher Wolfgang Alexander ( born October 4, 1936 in Vienna, Austria ) is a registered architect noted for his theories about design, and for more than 200 building projects in California, Japan, Mexico and around the world.

The US and Australian releases will share one design while the rest of the world will feature the other for a new 2 CD October 2011 release.

Following the Finnish Civil War and October revolution, Russians were virtually equated with Communists and due to official hostility to Communism, Finno-Soviet relations in the period between the world wars remained tense.

On 10 October 2010 geocachers around the world held events and went caching to commemorate 10 years of geocaching.

In October 2008, Engdahl told the Associated Press that the United States is " too insular and ignorant to challenge Europe as the center of the literary world " and does not really " participate in the big dialogue of literature.

Halloween or Hallowe ' en ( a contraction of its original title " All Hallows ' Evening "), also known as All Hallows ' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the eve before the Western Christian feast of All Hallows.

On October 8, 2008, competitive eater Eric " Steakbellie " Livingston set a world record by consuming of haggis in 8 minutes on WMMR radio in Philadelphia.

* 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.

There were 53 EFnet servers in the world as of October 2009.

The Lindsay Chemical Division of American Potash and Chemical Corporation, for a while the largest producer of rare earths in the world, in a price list dated October 1, 1958 priced 99. 9 % lanthanum ammonium nitrate ( oxide content of 29 %) at $ 3. 15 per pound, or $ 1. 93 per pound in 50-pound quantities.

In April 1917, Lenin published the April Theses, the strategy of the October Revolution, which proposed that the Russian revolution was not an isolated national event, but a fundamentally international event — the first world socialist revolution.

An October 2009 cabinet meeting was held underwater ( ministers wore scuba gear and communicated with hand signals ) to publicise to the wider world the threat of global warming on the low-lying islands of the Maldives.

Twenty-one of the MiG-29s were sold to the United States in October 1997 to prevent their sale on the world market, and for research purposes.

Peake's play The Cave, which dates from the mid-1950s, was given a first public reading at the Blue Elephant Theatre in Camberwell ( London ) in 2009, and had its world premiere in the same theatre, directed by Aaron Paterson, on 19 October 2010.

* " The map that changed the world ", Toby Lester The BBC, October 28, 2009.

* 1997 – October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown.

* 1970 – Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as " a maneuver to deceive world opinion ".

However in the southern hemisphere, owing to the ozone hole phenomenon, the lowest amounts of column ozone found anywhere in the world are over the Antarctic in the southern spring period of September and October.

The United Nations Population Fund designated 12 October 1999 as the approximate day on which world population reached 6 billion.

On a Sunday in 1962, the world stood still at the brink of nuclear war during the October Cuban missile crisis from the implementation of U. S. vs U. S. S. R. nuclear blackmail policy.

In October 1926, he lost a 1, 500 m race along with his world record to Germany's Otto Peltzer.

In October, he broke the world records for the 15 km, the 10 miles and the one hour run in Berlin.

Eventually, the October Revolution, led by Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Provisional Government and created the world ’ s first socialist state.

Head racing was exported to the United States in the 1950s, and the Head of the Charles Regatta held each October on the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts, USA is now the largest rowing event in the world.

In October 2004, SGI built the supercomputer Columbia, which broke the world record for computer speed, for the NASA Ames Research Center.