* October 3-The first V-2 rocket is successfully launched from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany, flying a distance of 147 km and reaching a height of 84. 5 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach space.

* October 3-The final elements of the U. S. Armys 1st Cavalry Division ( Airmobile ) to arrive in Vietnam reach its base at An Khe, South Vietnam, bringing the division to full strength there.

* October 3-The Berliner Fernsehturm in Berlin, Germany is completed.

* October 3-The first railway line in Italy, 7 km between Naples and Portici, opens.

The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.

February's volume was 1 per cent above January's for the first pickup since last October, although it's still 1.5 per cent off from February 1960.

In western Massachusetts and northwest Connecticut, the Berkshires are at their vibrant prime the first week of October.

During the first half of October the Blue Ridge and other parts of the Appalachians provide a spectacle stretching from Maryland and West Virginia to Georgia.

Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's ( ASA ) X3. 2 subcommittee.

Towards the end of October, Castel's new anti-plague serum is tried for the first time, but it cannot save the life of Othon's young son, who suffers greatly, as Paneloux, Rieux, and Tarrou look on in horror.

* The Herbstmarkt ( autumn market ), another Sunday shopping day, is on the first weekend in October.

The initial funds were released in September, and the 11-tube prototype was first demonstrated in October, 1939.

# Siegfried ( died 24 October 1184 ), Bishop of Brandenburg from 1173 – 1180, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, the first ranked prince, from 1180 – 1184

The Scotch-Club in Aachen was the first discothèque since 19 October 1959.

Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder ( Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin:, 14 BC – 17 October 33 ) was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century AD.

His first wife, married before October 29, 1174, was Eschiva of Ibelin ( c. 1160 – Cyprus in Winter 1196 – 1197 ), daughter of Baldwin of Ibelin and first wife Richilde de Bethsan or Bessan.

For the first of these, he raised a large sum and a substantial force, arriving in Damietta on 24 October 1249, after the town had already been captured.

The world's first fatal hijacking occurred on 28 October 1939.

The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959.

* Daniel Boone ( November 2, 1734 October 22 – September 26, 1820 ) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

In 1984, the first official representative matches of International Rules were played, and these were played annually each October between the AFL and the Gaelic Athletic Association, also known as the GAA, between 1998 and 2006.

Admiral Arthur Phillip RN ( 11 October 173831 August 1814 ) was the first Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the settlement which became Sydney.

The marriage took place on 30 April or 16 October 1325 and was a purely political maneuver to strengthen the first Polish – Lithuanian coalition against the Teutonic Knights.

The first human born in the Antarctic was Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen born on 8 October 1913 in Grytviken, South Georgia.

The show was first announced in The New York Times on October 5, 1961: " For the winter of 1962, Laurents is nurturing another musical project, The Natives Are Restless.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

The Clinton administration also launched the first official White House website, whitehouse. gov, on October 21, 1994.

Deliveries started in 2006 with the first aircraft arriving in October 2006.

The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota released its judgement on October 19, 1973, finding in Honeywell v. Sperry Rand that the ENIAC patent was a derivative of John Atanasoff's invention.

The case was legally resolved on October 19, 1973 when U. S. District Judge Earl R. Larson held the ENIAC patent invalid, ruling that the ENIAC derived many basic ideas from the Atanasoff – Berry Computer.

The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to John Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing instrument that would be able to write on his leather products, which then-common fountain pens could not do.

" The term intellectual property can be found used in an October 1845 Massachusetts Circuit Court ruling in the patent case Davoll et al.

In 1859, Stuart developed a new piece of cavalry equipment, for which he received patent number 25, 684 on October 4 — a saber hook, or an " improved method of attaching sabers to belts.

were listed as inventors in the corresponding patent applications filed in Switzerland on July 7, 1983, and October 28, 1983.

Figure from Pelton's original patent ( October 1880 )

With the assistance of his friends Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soulé he built an early writing machine for which a patent application was filed in October 1867.

The February 25, 1836 patent was then reissued as entitled Revolving gun to Samuel Colt on October 24, 1848.

In 1966, Moog filed a patent application for his unique low-pass filter, issued in October, 1969.

On October 8, 1883, the US patent office ruled that Edison's patent was based on the work of William Sawyer and was therefore invalid.

An October 28, 2010 patent from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, describes a Wankel engine superficially similar to Rolls-Royce's earlier prototype that required an external air compressor to achieve high enough compression for diesel-cycle combustion.

Figure from Pelton's original patent ( October 1880 )

* October 17 – Krupp engineers Benno Strauss and Eduard Maurer patent austenitic stainless steel.

* October 28 – Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

* October 30 – Domenico Menegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.

* October 17 – Henry Bessemer files his patent in the United Kingdom for the Bessemer process of steelmaking.

* October 24 – The earliest United States patent for a phosphorus friction match is granted to Alonzo Dwight Phillips of Springfield, Massachusetts.

On 17 February 1332, Philip VI bestowed it on his son John the Good, who, when he became king in turn ( 22 August 1350 ), gave the countship to his second son Louis I, raising it to a duchy in the peerage of France by letters patent of 25 October 1360.

Starting in January 1855 he began working on a way to produce steel in the massive quantities required for artillery and by October he filed his first patent related to the Bessemer process.

Later Glidden was joined by Ellwood who knew his design could not compete with Glidden's for which he applied for a patent in October 1873.

Whitney applied for a patent on October 28, 1793 ; the patent was granted on March 14, 1794, but was not validated until 1807.

In October 1963, Oldendorf received a U. S. patent for a " radiant energy apparatus for investigating selected areas of interior objects obscured by dense material.