Other former WorldCom officials charged with criminal penalties in relation to the company's financial misstatements include former CFO Scott Sullivan ( entered a guilty plea on March 2, 2004 to one count each of securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and filing false statements ), former comptroller David Myers ( pleaded guilty to securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and filing false statements on September 27, 2002 ), former accounting director Buford Yates ( pleaded guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges on October 7, 2002 ), and former accounting managers Betty Vinson and Troy Normand ( both pleading guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud on October 10, 2002 ).

In October 2006, PalmSource announced that it would rename itself to ACCESS, to match its parent company's name.

On 13 October 2007, Branson's Virgin Group sought to add Northern Rock to its empire after submitting an offer that would result in Branson personally owning 30 % of the company, changing the company's name from Northern Rock to Virgin Money.

In October 2008, the company's Canadian division, Monsanto Canada Inc., was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's news magazine.

The proposal to change the company's name was approved at the firm's annual shareholder's meeting on June 26 and the name took effect from October 1, 2008.

Groom purchased an estimated 1, 300 head of shorthorns in 1882 and selected the Diamond F brand, approved by the Francklyn officials and filed as the company's brand in October 1882.

On October 16, 1998, in a surprise presentation made at the newly unveiled Disney Legends Plaza at the company's headquarters, Disney Chairman Michael Eisner presented him with the prestigious Disney Legends Award.

MCI was founded as Microwave Communications, Inc. on 3 October 1963 with John D. Goeken being named the company's first president.

" According to the British newspaper The Guardian, "... the October 1970 plot against Chile's President-elect Salvador Allende ... was the direct result of a plea for action a month earlier by Donald Kendall, chairman of PepsiCo, in two telephone calls to the company's former lawyer, President Richard Nixon.

In October 2005, Washington Mutual purchased the formerly " subprime " credit card issuer Providian for approximately $ 6. 5 billion, although Providian's new management team's strategy of targeting Prime credit card consumers had been underway since 2001, therefore the credit card unit's nonperforming loan portfolio had improved significantly prior to the company's sale to WaMu.

In October 2010, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy signed a memorandum of understanding with the operators of the Department of Energy's Savannah River site, which should allow the construction of a demonstration plant based on the company's S-PRISM fast breeder reactor prior to the design receiving full NRC licensing approval.

In October / November 2008, Rowan Tree Theatre Co. in the Scottish Borders, mounted a production of the play to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War and in celebration of the company's twenty first birthday.

In October 1999, Raytheon was the subject of a number of securities class action lawsuits alleging it had issued a series of materially false and misleading statements including overstating the company's 1997 and 1998 revenues, concealing cost overruns and inflating its financial results.

By October 1986, the company's stock value had dropped to $ 17. 50 per share.

The company's cash flow had decreased by over 120 million dollars annually during the Shapiro years and in October 2008, Six Flags was warned its stock value had fallen below the required minimums to remain listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

On the company's first day of business on October 28, 1858 sales totaled US $ 11. 08, equal to $ today.

The original location of Grey Gull Records was 295 Huntington Avenue in Boston ( advertisement in Talking Machine World, 15 October 1920, p. 192 ) but city directories show that by 1923, the company's offices were in South Boston, at 135 Dorchester Avenue.

On October 31, 2003, shortly after the arrest of the company's CEO, the Russian government froze ownership of 44 % of the company's shares.

However, in October 2005, Abramovich sold his interest in Sibneft and the company's new owner Gazprom, which sponsors FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, cancelled the sponsorship deal.

The following month, Pérez was one of the artists on Batman # 400 ( October 1986 ) Wolfman and Pérez teamed again to produce the History of the DC Universe limited series to summarize the company's new history.

The company's first project was a film of The Patchwork Girl of Oz ; and its second, released in October 1914, was His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz, produced at a cost of $ 23, 500, and with a cast ( according to the not-always factually reliable Baum ) of 130.

Despite the company's 1998 statement that Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms would be released " soon ", the game remained in development of one form or another for eight years until its release on October 10, 2007, and had been on Wired magazine's top ten vaporware list every year since 2001.

The bright design of the set was also blamed for this – one insider reportedly described it as a " car crash in a shower " – and was subject to the network relaunch on 25 October 1999.

The stand on Stevenage Road celebrated its centenary in the 2005 – 2006 season and, following the death of Fulham FC's favourite son, former England captain Johnny Haynes, in a car accident in October 2005 the Stevenage Road Stand was renamed the Johnny Haynes Stand after the club sought the opinions of Fulham supporters.

A car accident on October 13, 1937, damaged her legs and curtailed her prospects as a professional dancer.

On 22 October 1972, while driving home from a session with the Stoke physiotherapist, Banks lost control of his car which ended up in a ditch.

This came just over half a decade since the one millionth car, an EJ Premier sedan rolled off the Dandenong line on 25 October 1962.

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 1, 2004, one of the main dissenting voices to Émile Lahoud's term extension, the newly resigned Druze ex-minister Marwan Hamadeh was the target of a car bomb attack as his vehicle slowed to enter his Beirut home.

Former minister and MP Marwan Hamadeh, who survived a similar car bomb attack on October 1, 2004, said " I accuse this government of incitement, negligence and shortcomings at the least, and of covering up its planning at the most ... if not executing ".

In October 2010, CNN announced that Foster recreated Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion car.

Also, it is suspected of carrying out the Bali car bombing on 12 October 2002, in which suicide bombers attacked a nightclub killing 202 people and wounding many more.

Volkswagen Group's Australian arm, Volkswagen Group Australia ( VGA ), announced that they would be returning Škoda, last sold in Australia in 1983, to the Australian car market in October 2007. the Fabia, Octavia, Roomster, Superb and Yeti are available in Australia.

The assassins planned to ambush Qasim at Al-Rashid Street on 7 October 1959: one man was to kill those sitting at the back of the car, the rest killing those in front.

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

* October 30 – Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver ( d. 2005 )

* October 6 – Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver

* October 4 – Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and automobile pioneer ( b. 1878 )

* October 18 – Ford officially launches volume production of Fiesta car at its Valencia plant.

* October 4 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver ( b. 1936 )

* October 10 – The first car number plates appear in Paris, France.

* October 20 – Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver ( cancer ) ( b. 1948 )

* October 17 – Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver

* October 25 21-year old Michael D ' Oyly Carte, grandson of theatrical impresario and hotelier Richard D ' Oyly Carte, is killed in a car crash in Switzerland

* October 5 – José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver

* October 16 – Dan Wheldon, English racing car driver ( b. 1978 )

* 9 October: Palestinian gunmen shot and wounded four Israelis traveling in a car near Hebron.