Versions of AutoCAD from Release 10 ( October 1988 ) and up support both ASCII and binary forms of DXF.

Most SDP members voted in favour of the merger, but SDP leader David Owen objected and continued to lead a " rump " SDP, with the merger of the two parties being completed in March 1988 to form the Social and Liberal Democrats, becoming the Liberal Democrats in October 1989.

* Bodiniel Quarry Assemblage of the Worshipful Society of Free Masons was constituted on the 15 October 1988, it currently meets the fourth Thursday in March and July, and the fourth Friday in November

In a plebiscite on October 5, 1988, General Pinochet was denied a second 8-year term as president ( 56 % against 44 %).

* Remembrance of the Daleks: October 5 – October 26, 1988

Chapman died on 4 October 1989 after suffering from tonsil cancer, which he had been diagnosed with in November 1988, and secondary spinal cancer.

Genosha first appeared in Uncanny X-Men # 235 ( October 1988 ), and was created by Chris Claremont and Rick Leonardi.

The new Louvre courtyard was opened to the public on October 14, 1988, and the Pyramid entrance was opened the following March.

In October 1988, Polgár finished first in a 10-player round-robin tournament in London, scoring 7 – 2, for a half point lead over Israeli GM Yair Kraidman.

Kemp as he leaves a meet-the-candidates rally for 1988 Republican presidential candidates in County Stadium in Union, South Carolina, on October 3, 1987.

4 ( October 1988 ).

The pyramid and its underground lobby were inaugurated on 15 October 1988.

On 31 October 2008, Libya paid $ 1. 5 billion, sought through donations from private businesses, to a fund that would be used to compensate both US victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 and the 1986 bombing of the La Belle disco in Germany.

The 86th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment had been located at Markuleshty since October 1951, and had been reequipped with MiG-29s in 1988.

His birthdate is shown on-screen to be October 7, 1988.

Prototype workstations were shown to standing ovations on October 12, 1988.

Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Concerning the Control of Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides or Their Transboundary Fluxes, opened for signature on 31 October 1988 and entered into force on 14 February 1991, was to provide for the control or reduction of nitrogen oxides and their transboundary fluxes.

The promised Graphical User Interface ( GUI ), Presentation Manager, was introduced with OS / 2 1. 1 in October, 1988.

The third and current reconstruction took place from 1 June 1988 and was completed on 1 October 1989 by Nigel Williams and Sandra Smith ( and overseen by David Akehurst ( CCO of Glass and Ceramics ) who had assessed the vase's condition during its appearance as the focal piece of an international exhibition of Roman glass and, at the conclusion of the exhibition, it was decided to go ahead with reconstruction and stabilization.

Later in October 1965 he was allowed to move to Najaf, Iraq, where he stayed until being forced to leave in 1978, after then-Vice President Saddam Hussein told him that it's better to leave ( the two countries would fight a bitter eight year war 1980 – 1988 only a year after the two reached power in 1979 ) after which he went to Neauphle-le-Château, suburb of Paris, France on a tourist visa, apparently not seeking political asylum, where he stayed for four months.

* Arrays of resistive elements for use in touch panels and for producing electric fields, issued October 1988

) – October 19, 1988 ) was an American blues singer and guitarist.

Therefore, the ministry sponsored cultural workshops throughout the country until October 1988 when the Ministry of Culture was integrated into the Ministry of Education because of financial troubles.

* The song figures prominently in a plotline on the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope in October 1988 when villain Max Dubujax plants a bomb in a music box that plays the tune.

In October 1747 a loya jirga ( grand council ) concluded near the city of Kandahar with Ahmad Shah Durrani being selected as the new leader of the Afghans, thus the Durrani dynasty was founded.

The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later in 1922 become the chief constituent of the Soviet Union.

Software development for the GNU operating system began in January 1984, and the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) was founded in October 1985.

The Actor's Studio was founded in October 1947 by Elia Kazan, Robert Lewis, and Cheryl Crawford, and the same year Oskar Fischinger filmed Motion Painting No. 1.

He was more successful as a journalist and published articles in Monde, a political / literary journal edited by Henri Barbusse, – his first article as a professional writer, La Censure en Angleterre, appeared in that journal on 6 October 1928 – G. K .' s Weekly – where his first article to appear in England, A Farthing Newspaper, was printed on 29 December 1928 – and Le Progrès Civique ( founded by the left-wing coalition Le Cartel des Gauches ).

Gygax left Guidon Games in 1973 and, with Don Kaye as a partner, founded the publishing company Tactical Studies Rules ( later known as TSR, Inc .) in October.

Henry John Heinz ( October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919 ) was an American businessman of German descent who founded the H. J. Heinz Company.

The election set against two new parties, the Democratic Party ( founded in October 2007 by the union of the Democrats of the Left and Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy ) led by Walter Veltroni, and The People of Freedom ( federation of Forza Italia, National Alliance and other parties ) led by Silvio Berlusconi.

He was one of the charter members of Tuscola's Masonic Lodge No. 332, which was founded on October 2, 1860.

The 30 September-1 October 1995 elections produced a deeply fragmented parliament with nine parties represented and the largest party-the newly founded centrist Democratic Party " Saimnieks "-commanding only 18 of 100 seats.

20 June 1926 – 17 October 2001 ) was an Israeli general, politician, and historian who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party, mainly advocating population transfer.

The term Sudetenland was used in a wider sense when on 1 October 1933 Konrad Henlein founded the Sudeten German Party and in Nazi German parlance Sudetendeutsche ( Sudeten Germans ) referred to all indigenous ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia.

The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) was founded by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European Organization for Nuclear Research ( CERN ) in October, 1994.

* October 21 – The European Patent Institute is founded.

* October 9 – Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 13th mission in the California mission chain.

October 1: People's Republic of China founded.

* October 16 – The 57th Street Art Fair, the oldest juried art fair in the American Midwest, is founded.

* October 19 – The DLRG ( German Life-Saving Society ) is founded.

* October 4 – The Partizan Belgrade sports society is founded in Belgrade, Serbia.

* October 1 – Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.

* October 14 – International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) founded.

* October 10 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in the UK.

* October 30 – Car manufacturing firm Lamborghini is founded.

* October 1 – Phi Delta Epsilon, the international medical fraternity, is founded by Aaron Brown and eight of his friends at Cornell University Medical College.

* October 5 – Alpha Kappa Psi, the co-ed Professional Business Fraternity, is founded on the campus of New York University