It was reported in October 2011 that the Australian federal government had reached an agreement with all of the states on potential changes to their laws in the wake of amendments to the Act of Settlement.

Vinge's Children of the Sky, " a near-term sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep ", set ten years later, was released in October 2011.

Corn growing at Grafton, Annapolis Valley in October 2011

It was revived in 2011 and new episodes began airing on MTV on October 27 and ended on December 29.

The new episodes debuted in the United States and Canada on October 27, 2011.

On 25 October 2011, Silvio Berlusconi named Ignazio Visco as new governor of the bank, replacing Mario Draghi.

It is held bi-annually, last time October 2009 and next time October 2011.

* On 14 October 2011 Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox resigned from the Cabinet after he " mistakenly allowed the distinction between personal interest and government activities to become blurred " over his friendship with Adam Werrity.

In the issue dated 12 October 2011, there was another revamp.

As of October 2011, previously active units around Abidjan reportedly included the:

In October 2011, unemployment rate was 17. 4 %.

On October 5, 2011 the CRTC released their findings that included consultations with stakeholders from the telecommunications industry, media producers, and cultural leaders among others.

There is, however, a GKOS keyboard application available for iPhone since May 8, 2010, for Android since October 3, 2010 and for MeeGo Harmattan since October 27, 2011.

More substantial plans arose in October 2011 with the ' Fulham Forever ' campaign.

On October 21, 2011 the Cubs officially hired Theo Epstein as president of baseball operations.

On 15 October 2011, Betty Driver, who had played Betty Williams since 1969, died of pneumonia, aged 91.

A census is currently being undertaken from 10 October to 31 October 2011, with results expected to be released in October 2012

On 23 October 2011, Variety reported that Elwes will make his directorial debut with an independent film, Elvis & Nixon.

In 2011, British Prime Minister David Cameron informed the British House of Commons that his proposals to reform the rules governing royal succession, a change which would require the approval of all Commonwealth realms, were to be discussed at the 28 – 30 October CHOGM in Perth.

On 3 October 2011, Chelsea made a proposal to CPO shareholders to buy back the freehold to the land on which Stamford Bridge sits, stating that " buying back the freehold removes a potential hurdle should a suitable site become available in the future ".

A Canadian bagpiper playing " Amazing Grace " during a memorial service, October 29, 2009, at Forward Operating Base Wilson, Afghanistan

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.

More recently, Canadian newspapers have adopted the British spelling variants such as-our endings, notably with The Globe and Mail changing its spelling policy in October 1990.

Also, there had been reports of intimidation from the side of the contras, with a Canadian observer mission confirming 42 people killed by the contras in " election violence " in October 1989.

An October 2007 referendum in the Canadian province of Ontario on adopting a Mixed Member Proportional system, also requiring 60 % approval, failed with only 36. 9 % voting in favour.

The Canadian commitment was originally planned to last to October 2003.

The European Greenpeace paid the debt of the Canadian Greenpeace office and on October 14, 1979, Greenpeace International came into existence.

Suspension of the writ in Canadian history occurred famously during the October Crisis, during which the War Measures Act was invoked by the Governor General of Canada on the constitutional advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who had received a request from the Quebec Cabinet.

* 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.

As of 25 October 2009, Canadian visa requests were being denied and Canadian travelers were told they were not welcome in Libya.

Louis David Riel (, ; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885 ) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political and spiritual leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies.

On 17 October 1972, a powerful bomb detonated inside the Sheraton Hotel in Buenos Aires, to the horror of nearly 700 guests, killing a Canadian woman and gravely wounding her husband.

A brief dramatic episode of Marxist-Leninist revolution took place in North America during the October Crisis in the province of Quebec in Canada, where the Marxist-Leninist and Quebec separatist Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnapped the British Trade Commissioner in Canada, James Cross, and Quebec government minister Pierre Laporte who was later killed, it issued a manifesto condemning what it considered English Canadian imperialism in French Quebec calling for an independent, socialist Quebec.

A majority of the surviving Nez Perce were finally forced to surrender on October 5, 1877 after the Battle of the Bear Paw Mountains in Montana only 40 miles from the Canadian border.

Seton, a British-born Canadian living in the United States, met Baden-Powell in October 1906, and they shared ideas about youth training programs.

The event was held, following an appearance on Saturday Night Live on October 30, on Thanksgiving Day of 1976 at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California, and featured a horn section with arrangements by Allen Toussaint and a stellar list of guests, including other Canadian acts Joni Mitchell and Neil Young.

* October 6 – Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player

* October 29 – Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor

* October 26 – Marc Lépine, Canadian mass murderer ( d. 1989 )

* October 31 – Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver ( b. 1975 )

In 1970, radical Quebec nationalist and Marxist militants of the Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnap the Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James Cross during the October Crisis, resulting in Laporte being killed, and the enactment of martial law in Canada under the War Measures Act, resulting in a campaign by the Canadian government which arrests suspected FLQ supporters.

* October 5 – STS-41-G: Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.