Benin began producing a modest quantity of offshore oil in October 1982.

The case was heard on October 12, 1982, and on May 24, 1983, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled against Bob Jones University in Bob Jones University v. United States ( 461 U. S. 574 ).

With the granting of Royal Assent, the name was officially changed to Canada Day on October 27, 1982.

Audio CDs and audio CD players have been commercially available since October 1982.

The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, that reached the market alongside Sony's CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982 in Japan.

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.

This current bridge was opened to traffic in October 1982 as a four-lane, high-level structure.

A version of " Two Tribes " was originally recorded for a BBC John Peel session in October 1982.

The Governments of the FSM and the U. S. signed the final version of the Compact of Free Association on October 1, 1982.

The transition is usually said to have begun with Franco's death on 20 November 1975, while its completion is marked by the electoral victory of the socialist PSOE on 28 October 1982.

Hans Hugo Bruno Selye, CC () ( January 26, 1907 — October 16, 1982 ) was a pioneering Hungarian endocrinologist.

He died on October 16, 1982 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Senator Schmitt with then-President Ronald Reagan in Roswell, New Mexico, October 1982

The Fragrant Hill Hotel opened on October 17, 1982, but fell into disrepair almost immediately afterwards.

The black cut-stone masonry wall, with the names of 58, 195 fallen soldiers carved into its face, was completed in late October 1982 and dedicated on November 13, 1982.

MIDI's development was announced to the public by Robert Moog, in the October 1982 edition of Keyboard magazine.

The final phases of the salvage of the Mary Rose on October 11, 1982.

Depressed by the death of his wife Aliza in November 1982, he gradually withdrew from public life, until his resignation in October 1983.

Roman Osipovich Jakobson () ( October 10, 1896, Moscow – July 18, 1982, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.

On October 5, 1985 the Sandinistas broadened the 1982 State of Emergency and suspended many more civil rights.

The new group played their first gig at The Pindar of Wakefield on 4 October 1982.

In October 1982 Yoel Lerner, a member of Meir Kahane's Kach, attempted to blow up the Dome of the Rock in order to rebuild the Temple Mount site.

Up to version 3. 7 of vi, created in October, 1981, UC Berkeley was the development home for vi, but with Bill Joy's departure in early 1982, to join Sun Microsystems, and AT & T's UNIX System V ( January, 1983 ) adopting vi, changes to the vi codebase happened more slowly and in a more dispersed and mutually incompatible ways.

Conquered by the Germans in World War II ( 1940 ), it was liberated in 24 – 27 October 1944 by the British 53rd ( Welsh ) Division. This town was mentioned on ' Who do Think You Are?

In October 2003, GSN acquired the rerun rights to Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

The Pirate Planet is the second serial of the 16th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 30 September to 21 October 1978.

On 26 October 2011, 2 Entertain announced that only the Shada fragments would be released on DVD, along with the 1993 documentary Doctor Who ': Thirty Years in the TARDIS and other items, possibly sometime in 2012.

Christopher John " Chris " Tarrant, OBE ( born 10 October 1946 ) is an English radio and television broadcaster, now best known for hosting the first version of the television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

In October 2006 The Who released their first album in 26 years, Endless Wire.

In Webb's autobiography ( Published in July 2011 ) Webb states, " The house in Indianapolis where I was born and which I dimly remember ..." Webb's birthplace is listed as Indianapolis in The Internet Movie Data Base, Who's Who in America, the New York Times obituary ( Oct. 13, 1966 ), The Indianapolis News obituary ( October 14, 1966 ).

Full-time transmission began at 6. 30pm on 24 October 1980 ( United Nations Day ), as Channel 0 / 28. The first program shown was a documentary entitled ' Who are we?

Released October 23, 2001, it was his fourth album to debut at the top of the Billboard 200, featuring the singles " Who We Be ", " We Right Here ", and " Shorty Was The Bomb ".

* October 29 – Actor William Hartnell makes his last regular appearance as the First Doctor in the concluding moments of Episode 4 of the Doctor Who serial The Tenth Planet.

The screenplay by Helen Deutsch was adapted from " The Man Who Hated People ," a short story by Paul Gallico which appeared in the October 28, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.

" The Man Who Hated People " appeared in the October 28, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.

It contained the Grammy-winning song " Rockestra Theme ", the result of an October 1978 superstar session with members of Wings, The Who, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd, among others.

*" Safety In Numbers " / " We Who Wait " ( 28 October 1977: Anchor Records ANC1047 )

In October 2010, Broderick was featured in the US version of the BBC programme Who Do You Think You Are ?.

According to A & C Black published Who's Who 2007, Shaw Run Run was born on 14 October, but his wife Mona Fong declined to confirm this.

Cummings, feeling more and more out of synch with the jazzier & progressive leanings of Troiano and the others, decided to pursue a solo direction and the Guess Who broke up in October 1975.

The Men Who Killed Kennedy began with two 50-minute segments originally aired on 25 October 1988 in the United Kingdom, entitled simply Part One and Part Two.

Paradise Towers is the second serial of the 24th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 October to 26 October 1987.

Remembrance of the Daleks is the first serial of the 25th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 October to 26 October 1988.

In a 23 October 2001 interview in Kuwaiti newspaper As Seyassa, concerning 9 / 11 attacks, Sultan stated “ Who stands behind this terrorism and who carried out this complicated and carefully planned terrorist operation?

Warner's breakout season from a career in anonymity was so unexpected that Sports Illustrated featured him on their October 18 cover with the caption " Who Is This Guy?