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:

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 ".

In October 2011, the Canadian Federal Government licensed the CANDU design to Candu Energy ( a wholly owned subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin ), which also acquired the former reactor development and marketing division of AECL at that time.

Farmers were recruited into regiments for this work from August to October — a period of food shortage — under the control of city temple authorities, thus acting as a form of unemployment relief.

The monthly unemployment rate remained at about 6 and 8 percent from December 2007 until September 2008, however, it went up to about 9 percent in October and dropped again in November 2008 to 8 percent.

The first annual conference ( referred to as the International Labour Conference, or ILC ) began on 29 October 1919 at the Pan American Union ( building ) in Washington, D. C. and adopted the first six International Labour Conventions, which dealt with hours of work in industry, unemployment, maternity protection, night work for women, minimum age and night work for young persons in industry.

In October 2005 new investment stimuli introduced – more favorable conditions to IT and research centers, especially to be located in the east part of the country ( where is more unemployment ), to bring more added value and not to be logistically demanding.

As for employment, a longtime weakness of the Spanish economy, after having completed large improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s ( decade ), which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback from October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels.

During the period October 2007-October 2008 Spain had its unemployment rate climbing 37 %, exceeding the unemployment surge of past economic crises like 1993.

In particular, during the month of October 2008, Spain feared its worst unemployment rise ever recorded and, so far, the country is suffering a big unemployment crisis.

Many companies announced mass dismissals and thus the unemployment rate rose from its low of 1. 9 % in June 2000 to its peak of 3. 9 % in October 2004, although well below the European Union ( EU ) unemployment average of 8. 9 %.

When an unemployed miner ( Daniel Jones ) wrote to him to complain of his unemployment and low wages, Gladstone gave what H. C. G. Matthew has called " the classic mid-Victorian reply " on 20 October 1869:

His Labour predecessor as prime minister, Harold Wilson, had inherited an unemployment count of around 400, 000 at the time of his general election win of October 1964 but seen unemployment peak at 631, 000 during the spring of 1967, though it had fallen to 582, 000 by the time Heath seized power in June 1970.

According to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ( BLS ), the October 2008 unemployment rate in the United States was 6. 7 percent whereas in Missouri it was 6. 5 percent.

According to economic research compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the October 2008 unemployment rate in Bollinger County was 5. 6 percent.

In their October 9, 2008 issue, Forbes magazine named Shelby, North Carolina the third most vulnerable city in America because of the high unemployment rate, poverty rate, and lack of economical development.

The PFD payout, which comes in or near October of each year, is acknowledged to have a substantial effect on Alaska's economy, both in total and especially in rural Alaska where unemployment can reach 60 % and where cash is scarce.

The Jarrow March ( or Jarrow Crusade, from the phrase on banners carried by the marchers ), was an October 1936 protest march against unemployment and extreme poverty suffered in North East England during the Great Depression.

The crash of the tin market in October of the same year and the reforms led to an estimated unemployment rate of 21. 5 percent by 1987 ( the unemployment rate had risen steadily from 5. 5 percent in 1978 to 10. 9 percent in 1982, 15. 5 percent in 1984, and 20 percent in 1986 ).

In October 2011 the Guardian reported the unemployment rate at 7. 5 %

The unemployment rate in the city was 22 % in October 2005.

On 7 October 1981, with national unemployment approaching 3, 000, 000 ( compared to 1, 500, 000 two years previously ), Cormack urged prime minister Margaret Thatcher to change her economic policies, namely monetarism to tackle inflation, if Britain was to avoid economic disaster.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

However, in October 2004, the Cuban government announced an end to this policy: from November US dollars would no longer be legal tender in Cuba, but would instead be exchanged for convertible pesos ( since April 2005 at the exchange rate of $ 1. 08 ) with a 10 % tax payable to the state on the exchange of US dollars cash — though not on other forms of exchange.

Unemployment stood at 7. 6 % in October 2006, a rate that compared favorably to many other European countries, and especially with the early 1990s when it stood at over 20 %.

Stallion inspections are held in Neumünster, Germany, each October and approved stallions are required to complete extended performance tests, which rate the horses ' gaits, temperament, jumping ability, and suitability over a cross country course, before being given full breeding licenses.

* October 13 – The United States Commission on Civil Rights releases the report, Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future, that documents that Puerto Ricans in the United States have a poverty rate of 33 percent in 1974 ( up from 29 percent in 1970 ), the highest of all major racial-ethnic groups in the country ( not including Puerto Rico, a U. S. territory ).

* October 6 – Federal Reserve System changes from an interest rate target policy to a money supply target policy.

According to the TransUnion credit bureau Calhoun County is the only county in the United States to have a 0 % delinquency rate on both credit cards and mortgages as of October 2008.

On 3 October 1357, after several protracted negotiations with the Scots ' regency council, a treaty was signed at Berwick-upon-Tweed under which Scotland's nobility agreed to pay 100, 000 marks ( to be paid at the rate of 10, 000 marks per year ) as a ransom for their king.

In October 2009, the odds returned to 24, 000 to 1 with the prize fund interest rate increase.

They held that line until October, but the constant loss of men killed or wounded was beyond the White rate of replacement.

This led to Lawson resigning as chancellor to be replaced by his old protégé John Major, who, with Douglas Hurd, the then Foreign Secretary, convinced the Cabinet to sign Britain up to the ERM in October 1990, effectively guaranteeing that the British Government would follow an economic and monetary policy that would prevent the exchange rate between the pound and other member currencies from fluctuating by more than 6 %.

Following the Fall of France an Italian air group of CR. 42 and BR. 20 bombers operated from Belgium in October and November 1940 and flew some operations in later stages of the Battle of Britain but with a high loss rate.

The EEF then advanced at an impressive rate, ( as high as 60 miles in 55 hours for cavalry, and infantry slogging 20 miles a day ) encountering minimal resistance, Damascus fell on 1 October, Homs on 16 October and Aleppo on 25 October.

On October 5, 2007, the United States Postal Service announced that it would honor five journalists of the 20th century with first-class rate postage stamps, to be issued on Tuesday, April 22, 2008: Martha Gellhorn, John Hersey, George Polk, Rubén Salazar, and Eric Sevareid.