* " Cement Industry Is at Center of Climate Change Debate " article by Elizabeth Rosenthal in the New York Times October 26, 2007

In October 1985, the California Supreme Court rejected Rosenthal's appeal of the multimillion-dollar judgment against him for legal malpractice, and upheld conclusions of a trial court and a Court of Appeal that Rosenthal acted improperly.

* October 9 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer ( d. 2006 )

Joseph John Rosenthal ( October 9, 1911 – August 20, 2006 ) was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Joseph Rosenthal was born on October 9, 1911 in Washington, D. C. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants ; however, he converted to Catholicism during his youth.

Spilotro may have been involved in the attempted car bombing murder of Lefty Rosenthal on October 4, 1982.

Frank Lawrence " Lefty " Rosenthal ( June 12, 1929 – October 13, 2008 ) was a professional sports bettor, former Las Vegas casino executive and organized crime associate.

Rosenthal survived an assassination attempt, in October 1982, after his car was rigged with explosives.

An 18 city West Coast and East Coast tour runs through September and October 2004, with the band line-up of Rosenthal, Helm, Grant, Bart Helm, Nicki Jaine and Jay.

Ronny Rosenthal (, born October 4, 1963 ) also known by the nickname Rocket Ronny is an Israeli former footballer.

* Elisabeth Rosenthal, " Study Puts Iraqi Deaths of Civilians at 100, 000 ", International Herald Tribune via the New York Times, 29 October 2004.

It was recorded and mixed by Steve Rosenthal at New York's " The Magic Shop " studio in October, 1992.

Rosenthal is the author of the book You're Lucky You're Funny: How Life Becomes a Sitcom which was released on October 21, 2006.

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

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

* 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.

The U. S. military began targeting food crops in October 1962, primarily using Agent Blue ; the American public was not made aware of the crop destruction programs until 1965 ( and it was then believed that crop spraying had begun that spring ).

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.

On October 24, 2009, North American company Super Fighter Team released Zaku, an all new, all original horizontal shooter for the Lynx developed by PenguiNet.

4655 into law on October 31, 1998, which instituted a policy of " regime change " against Iraq, though it explicitly stated it did not provide for direct intervention on the part of American military forces.

In Major League Baseball, the American League Championship Series ( ALCS ), played in October, is a round in the postseason that determines the winner of the American League pennant.

*" Distress Signal Heard From American Sailor Missing For 17 Days ", The New York Times, October 31, 1976.

The American Embassy in Bangui again temporarily suspended operations on November 2, 2002 in response to security concerns raised by the October 2002 launch of François Bozizé's 2003 military coup.

In October 2009, the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors ( AACCA ), a subsidiary of Varsity Brands, released a study that analyzed the data from Emergency Room visits of all high school athletes.

" On October 1, 1903 the first modern World Series between the American League champion Boston Pilgrims ( later known as the Red Sox ) and the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates was played on this site.

John Craig Venter ( born October 14, 1946 ) is an American biologist and entrepreneur.

Jeron Criswell King ( August 18, 1907 – October 4, 1982 ), born Jeron Criswell Konig, and known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell (), was an American psychic known for wildly inaccurate predictions.

Donald Allen Wollheim ( 1 October 1914 – 2 November 1990 ) was an American science fiction ( sf ) editor, publisher, writer, and fan.

Donald " Don " McLean ( born October 2, 1945 ) is an American singer-songwriter.

Alfred Damon Runyon ( October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946 ) was an American newspaperman and author.

Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

Edward Vincent " Ed " Sullivan ( September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974 ) was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of the TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show.

Elias Boudinot ( ; May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821 ) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and was elected as a U. S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War.

The band toured in support in the US only from October 1976 to April 1977 with a break in December, then an American Music Award show appearance on 31 January 1977, plus a one-off gig in San Diego in August 1977.

Following the October 2001 American invasion and the Bonn Agreement the new government under the leadership of Hamid Karzai started to re-establish diplomatic relationships with many countries who had held close diplomatic relations before the communist coup d ' état and the subsequent civil war.

None of the 22 had been captured by American or other authorities as of October 2001.

Kelly's first career breakthrough was in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Time of Your Life, which opened on October 25, 1939, where for the first time on Broadway he danced to his own choreography.

* October 29 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher and journalist ( b. 1847 )

Johnston's work on the comic strip earned her a Reuben Award in 1985 and made her a nominated finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning in 1994 .< ref name =" pulitzer "> The Pulitzer Prize Nominated Finalists Retrieved 10 October 2007.

William Henry " Bill " Mauldin ( October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003 ) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from the United States.

* October 29-Joseph Pulitzer ( born 1847 )

April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911 ), born Pulitzer József, was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World.

On October 29, 1911, Pulitzer said his last words while his German secretary read to him about King Louis XI of France.

In October 2011 it was awarded its 8th Pacemaker Award, sometimes referred to as the Pulitzer Prize of College Journalism, by the Associated Collegiate Press.

Piloted by US Army Lt. Cyrus K. Bettis, a Curtiss R3C won the Pulitzer Trophy Race on October 12, 1925, at a speed of.

In a follow-up interview, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists Donald Barlett and James Steele, based on their October 2007 article in Vanity Fair, call Greenspan " flat wrong " regarding claims by Greenspan in that interview denying Federal Reserve responsibility in the transfer of billions of dollars from the Federal Reserve to Iraq, $ 9 billion of which the reporters claim has yet to be accounted.

* October 6 – Curtiss R2Cs win first and second place in the Pulitzer Trophy Race, the winning aircraft setting a new airspeed record of 243. 6 mph ( 392 km / h ).

Ned Rorem ( born October 23, 1923 ) is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist.

The Oakland Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for a photograph of a small private plane narrowly missing a B-29 Superfortress in 1950, and again for photographs of the aftermath of the October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake.

Anne Tyler ( born October 25, 1941 ) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.

Swope served as the editor for New York World's 21-day crusade against the Ku Klux Klan in October 1921, which won the newspaper the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1922.

John Fisher Burns ( born 4 October 1944 ) is a British journalist, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes.

Flying a Curtiss R-6 racer, a precursor of the PW-8 design, Maughan won the Pulitzer race with an average speed of, on October 14, 1922.

In October 2007 it was announced that The Maneater had won the 2007 Pacemaker Award, which is considered the Pulitzer Prize of collegiate journalism.

He will appear in the Broadway musical Newsies as Joseph Pulitzer from October 9, 2012 through December 16, 2012, as a temporary replacement for John Dossett.

* St. Louis, Missouri — Post-Dispatch ( owned by Lee Enterprises, formerly owned by Pulitzer, Inc .) publishing, and Globe-Democrat ( owned by Newhouse ) ended when the Globe-Democrat was sold to Veritas Publishing Corp. in 1983 ; Globe-Democrat again operated independently until folding in October 1986.

Edward William Bok ( born Eduard Willem Gerard Cesar Hidde Bok ) ( October 9, 1863 – January 9, 1930 ) was a Dutch born American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Dowdy also appeared on television on the 17 October 1957 episode of Hallmark Hall of Fame as the Stout Angel in a television production of Marc Connelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Green Pastures.