On July 8, 1951, flying his fifth mission in an F-86, Gabreski shot down a MiG 15, followed by MiG kills on September 2 and October 2.

As of October 25, the AEC had reported 24 shots in the new Soviet series, 12 of them in a megaton range, including a super bomb with a yield of 30 to 50 megatons ( the equivalent of 30 million to 50 million tons of TNT ) ; ;

Maryland contracts for future construction during October totaled $77,389,000, up to 10 per cent compared to October, 1960, F. W. Dodge, Dodge Corporation, reported.

The Times reported in October 2007 that these limits had been " plucked out of the air " and had no scientific basis.

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.

" When the candy-chocked shmoos were dropped, a near-riot resulted ," ( reported in Newsweek — October 11, 1948 ).

By October 2007 bluetongue had become a serious threat in Scandinavia and Switzerland and the first outbreak in Denmark was reported.

* 1967: Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin reported that on October 20 they had captured a purported Sasquatch on film at Bluff Creek, California.

The October 25, 1980 edition of the German paper Bild reported that Haley had a brain tumor.

The Blue Angels were officially recommissioned on 25 October 1951, and reported to NAS Corpus Christi, Texas.

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

On 21 August 2008, the official A1GP site reported that the 2008 / 09 season's first race has moved from the Mugello Circuit, Italy to Zandvoort on the 4 – 5 October 2008 due to the delay in the building the new chassis for the new race cars.

* On October 3, 1906, the Des Moines Daily News reported " probably the first use " of the " long forward pass " in the University of Missouri's 23 – 4 win over Kirksville Normal School.

The Fiji Village news service reported on 11 October that Vanuatu's Trade Minister, James Bule, would visit Fiji on 25 October.

Book of Sui reported that when Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei overthrew Juqu Mujian's Northern Liang on October 18, 439, Ashina's 500 families fled to the Rouran Khaganate.

On October 4, 2009 the Reuters reported that Ayman Al Zawahiri had asserted that Libya had

In the May 16, 2007 edition of TIME magazine, it was reported that " His ( Gore's ) Tennessee mansion consumes 20 times the electricity used by the average American home " On October 30, 2010, under the headline A VERY inconvenient truth, the UK Telegraph reported that " Al Gore ' left car engine running during hour-long environment lecture ".

On October 7, 2004, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan reported to the Security Council that Syria had failed to withdraw its forces from Lebanon.

* In October 2006, the New Scientist headlined an article " Why the Loch Ness Monster is no plesiosaur " because Leslie Noè of the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge reported, " The osteology of the neck makes it absolutely certain that the plesiosaur could not lift its head up swan-like out of the water ".

* The Boston Globe reported on October 5, 2009, that the newly announced Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was asked if she had expected to win the honor.

A UN visiting mission reported in October 1975 that an overwhelming majority of the Saharan people desired independence.

Sequencing of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii genome was reported in October 2007.

On 9 October 1676, Van Leeuwenhoek reported the discovery of micro-organisms.

By the time the offensive was ready in late October, Eighth Army had 231, 000 men on its ration strength.

A second attempt by Rommel to bypass or break the Commonwealth position was repulsed in the Battle of Alam Halfa in August, and in October the Eighth Army decisively defeated the Axis forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein.

Eighth Session ( October 23, 787 ) -- The last session was held in Constantinople at the Magnaura Palace.

** 1270 – October 30 – The siege of Tunis and the Eighth Crusade end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily ( Louis IX's brother ) and the sultan of Tunis.

* October 30 – The siege of Tunis and the Eighth Crusade end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily ( Louis IX's brother ) and the sultan of Tunis.

He took this unit to England in October 1942 as part of the Eighth Air Force, and led it in combat until May 1943, notably helping to develop the combat box formation.

Note: On October 6, 2008, it was announced that the Eighth Air Force would become part of the new Air Force Global Strike Command.

On 3 October, a brigade of Eighth Army's 78th Infantry Division had crossed the Bifurno river to confront the German Volturno-Viktor Line defences.

On 25 October the first Chinese prisoners on the Eighth Army front were taken by I Corps troops.

Focke-Wulf's plant at Marienburg produced approximately half of all Fw 190s and was bombed by the Eighth Air Force on October 9, 1943.

However, the Second Hungarian Army was present in the region, and together with the Eighth German Army engaged the Allied forces on 5 September in what was to become the Battle of Turda, which lasted until 8 October and resulted in heavy casualties for both sides.

By late October 1950 the Eighth Army was nearing the Yalu River, North Korea's border with China.

Simchat Torah is a component of the Biblical Jewish holiday of Shemini Atzeret (" Eighth Day of Assembly "), which follows immediately after the festival of Sukkot in the month of Tishrei ( mid-September to early October on the Gregorian calendar ).

As a major, he commanded Kelly Field, Texas, from October 5, 1920, to February 1921, served at Fort Sam Houston as air officer of the Eighth Corps Area until November 1921, and was commanding officer of the 1st Pursuit Group, first at Ellington Field, Texas, and later at Selfridge Field, Michigan, until September 24, 1924.

During World War II, Operation Begonia was the airborne counterpart to the amphibious Operation Jonquil, conducted by British SAS and Eighth Army Airborne between Ancona and Pescara, Italy, from 2-6 October, 1943.

The division remained as part of the British Eighth Army to the end of World War II in 1945 during which it fought in the Battle of Greece ( March – April 1941 ), the Battle of Crete ( May 1941 ), Operation Crusader ( November – December 1941 ), Minqar Qaim ( June 1942 ), First Battle of El Alamein ( July 1942 ), Second Battle of El Alamein ( October – November 1942 ), Libya and Tunisia ( December 1942 – May 1943 ), the Sangro ( October – December 1943 ), Battle of Monte Cassino ( February – March 1944 ), Central Italy ( May – December 1944 ), and the Adriatic Coast ( April – May 1945 ).

The boys ' choir participated in the performance of Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony from October 13 to 17 at the Festival of European Music in Berlin under Roland Bader ; in November, Mozart's Requiem and Grabmusik were performed by the whole choir.

: In Conference Record of 1967 Eighth Annual Symposium on Switching and Automata Theory, pages 32-36, Austin, Texas, 18 – 20 October 1967.

: In Conference Record of 1967 Eighth Annual Symposium on Switching and Automata Theory, pages 128-139, Austin, Texas, 18 – 20 October 1967.

Under the new command of Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery, the Eighth Army launched a new offensive on 23 October against the stalled Axis forces, the Second Battle of El Alamein.

# Eighth Parliament: 5 years ( 28 October 2001-27 October 2006 )

This force remained as part of the British Eighth Army to the end of World War II in 1945 during which it fought in the Battle of Greece ( March – April 1941 ), the Battle of Crete ( May ), Operation Crusader ( November – December ), Minqar Qaim ( June 1942 ), the Battle of El Alamein ( July – November ), Libya and Tunisia ( December – May 1943 ), the Sangro ( October – December ), the Battle of Monte Cassino ( February – March 1944 ), the Central Italy ( May – December ), and the Adriatic Coast ( April – May 1945 ).

It was effected by the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1983, which was approved by referendum on 7 September 1983 and signed into law on the 7 October of the same year.