On October 8th of last year, the Industrial Division sponsored the Governor's Conference on Industrial Development at the former Henry Barnard School.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 23d day of October, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, and of Independence, the one hundred and eighty-sixth.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

Huff, who received a salary of $109 a week from the loan association from October of 1955 until September of this year, said that his private practice was not lucrative.

* 1998 – Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $ 76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.

In October 2008 the Russian bank Gazprombank, the banking arm of Gazprom, acquired 100 percent of Armenian bank Areximbank after previously buying 80 percent of said bank in November 2007 and 94. 15 percent in July of the same year.

One year later in October, Germanicus died suddenly in Antioch ( modern Antakya, Turkey ).

A peace treaty was signed in Seville in 1339 and, in the next year, Portuguese troops played an important role in the victory of the Battle of Rio Salado over the Marinid Moors in October 1340.

Later that year however a Byzantine fleet arrived, and in October Amalric launched yet another invasion and besieged Damietta by sea and by land.

Probably due to the influence of Dunstan, the Archbishop of Canterbury ( 959 – 988 ), Ælfheah was elected Bishop of Winchester in 984, and was consecrated on 19 October that year.

During the actions in the October of that year the Company was employed on convoy escort tasks, airfield defense, fighting reconnaissance patrols and screening operations.

The dates of his birth and death are uncertain, but he was probably born before 1050 and died on 12 October of an unknown year ( Possibly 1081, latest 1085 ).

The television, film, book, costume, home decoration, and confectionery industries use this time of year to promote products closely associated with such a holiday, with promotions going from early September to 31 October, since their themes rapidly lose strength once the holiday ends, and advertising starts concentrating on Christmas.

After Hurricane Katrina, Clinton joined with fellow former President George H. W. Bush to establish the Bush-Clinton Tsunami Fund in January 2005, and the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund in October of that year.

" The show was blamed for a two-year-old's death which occurred in Moraine, Ohio in October 1993 in which a five-year-old boy set fire to his mother's mobile home, killing his two year old sister.

In 1915 Germany promised to restore the boundaries according to the Treaty of San Stefano and Bulgaria, which had the largest army in the Balkans, declared war on Serbia in October the same year.

When Benny stepped in as the Hep Stars ' keyboardist in October of that year, he knew this was what he wanted to do.

A hat-trick in the 8 – 1 rout of Switzerland in June 1963 took Charlton's England goal tally to 30, equalling the record jointly held by Tom Finney and Nat Lofthouse and Charlton's 31st goal against Wales in October the same year gave him the record alone.

Having first sent his manuscripts out of the country, Bartók reluctantly emigrated to the U. S. with Ditta Pásztory-Bartók in October that year.

On 30 October 2008 a spokesman for the team announced that the team would complete its last three performances of the year with five jets instead of six.

The Great Dictator spent a year in production, and was released in October 1940.

The French were able to reimpose the colonial administration in Phnom Penh in October the same year.

" However, the first operational British A Bomb was not detonated until October 1952, about one year after Attlee had left office.

The Cadillac Chestnut Harvest Festival is held every year, on the second Saturday of October.

In October 1970 a technician's dispute turned into a work-to-rule when sound staff were denied a pay rise given to camera staff the year before for working with colour recording equipment.

Admiral Arthur Phillip RN ( 11 October 173831 August 1814 ) was the first Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the settlement which became Sydney.

Arthur William à Beckett ( 25 October 1844 Fulham-14 January 1909 London ) was an English journalist and intellectual.

Gilbert Arthur à Beckett ( 1837 – October 15, 1891 ) was an English writer.

Graham Arthur Chapman ( 8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989 ) was an English comedian, writer, actor, and one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python.

In October 1879 Wells's mother arranged through a distant relative, Arthur Williams, for him to join the National School at Wookey in Somerset as a pupil-teacher, a senior pupil who acted as a teacher of younger children.

The coalition was re-formed under Archie Cameron in 1940, and continued until October 1941 despite the election of Arthur Fadden as leader after the 1940 Election.

A new building was begun in 1895 and opened by the Prime Minister Arthur Balfour in October 1902.

On 3 October, the independents, Arthur Coles and Alex Wilson, voted with the Opposition in the House of Representatives to reject Fadden ’ s budget and the government fell -- to date, the last time a sitting government has been defeated in the House.

* Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin ( 30 January 1924 – 1 October 1924 )

* October 27 – Arthur Rhys-Davids, British World War I fighter ace ( b. 1897 )

* October 12 – Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1940 )

* October – Arthur C. Clarke puts forward the idea of a communications satellite in a Wireless World magazine article.

* October 17 – Jean Arthur, American Actress ( d. 1991 )

* October 19 – Arthur Wint, Jamaican Olympic runner ( b. 1920 )

* October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist ( b. 1863 )

* October 17 – Arthur Miller, American playwright ( d. 2005 )

* October 14 – Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, writer and Liberal Party politician ( b. 1818 )

* October 16 – Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist ( b. 1921 )

* October 20 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet ( d. 1891 )

* October 31 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

* October 15 – Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer ( b. 1837 )

* October 5 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States ( d. 1886 )

* October 1 – Arthur Onslow, English politician ( d 1768 )

* October 20 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1863 )

* October 22 – Charles Arthur " Pretty Boy " Floyd is shot and killed by FBI agents near East Liverpool, Ohio.