The Egyptian Navy wanting to acquire a cheap alternative for the aging Komar class missile boats, decided to build a modern missile boat based on the Komar hull design with modifications and upgrades in the Alexandria Shipyards in the late 1970s.
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On 26 October 2005, a US warplane struck a suspected insurgent safehouse near the Syrian border in an attempt to kill al-Baghdadi.
Alfred William Goldie (December 10, 1920, Coseley, Staffordshire – October 8, 2005, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria) was an English Mathematician.
Allen William Mark (Doc) Coombs (23 October 1911 – 30 January 1995) was a British electronics engineer at the Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill.
The book is about the October 1, 1910 bombing of The Los Angeles Times building by union members that caused later attacks, but the later ones failed.
During the fall each year (the week of October 23rd, in 2006) there is a week of Old-Time music; in the spring, a week of dulcimer.
A grand fair is held there annually during Kartik (September–October) where Hindus and Jains visit in large numbers to witness the grand rath yatra.
Harold Bost purchased N3124V from the Oregon Aviation Museum, in Cottage Grove, Oregon, and donated it to Bonanza Baron Museum in October, 2004.
On October 30, 1992, on his show, Geraldo Rivera interviewed Mackey, his wife, Lawson, and Cole, along with Hell's Gate author Douglas Hensley and others.
It was also the site of the killing of five Australian-based journalists (the Balibo Five) by Indonesian forces on October 16, 1975 during an incursion by Indonesia into what was then Portuguese Timor.
The FBI surveillance files on Weatherman reported that on October 20, 1970 Flanagan was in Algeria meeting with Eldridge Cleaver, exiled Black Panther Party leader.
On October 28, 1952, Betances led his men in the victorious Battle of Jackson Heights.
On October 4, 1975, Boone married writer Dan O'Neill, in a ceremony officiated by Jack Hayford, founding pastor of The Church On The Way, in Van Nuys, California.
Since October 2, 2011, Duncan has been a host for "Stully and Duncan," a nightly radio program on the St. Louis ESPN Radio Affiliate, WXOS.
Ben Needham (born 29 October 1989 in Sheffield) disappeared on 24 July 1991 at the age of 21 months from the Greek island of Kos.
On October 15, 2010, HP Philippines, a unit of United States-based information technology firm Hewlett-Packard Company, have entered an agreement with RJ 100.3 FM as part of radio commercials.
On 27 October 2008 the band split up, a month after having to cancel gigs that they were due to undertake with Hot Club de Paris, in late September and early October.
From October 1978 over a period of six weeks, they noted that Salameh spent most afternoons with his wife, former Miss Universe Georgina Rizk, at her apartment in Snoubra, West Beirut, and when not in meetings spent time at the gym and at a sauna.
Friedrich Frey-Herosé (12 October 1801, Lindau - 22 September 1873) was a Swiss politician.
Full Circle was recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York City on October 6, 2000, as part of a tour of the same name in which Ravi introduced his nineteen-year-old daughter and student Anoushka.
Harold Malcolm Westergaard (9 October 1888 Copenhagen, Denmark – 22 June 1950 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).
Soon after formation, the firm moved to Thavies Inn at Holborn Circus and later to Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street, before moving to 21 Holborn Viaduct in October 1977.
Hwang Ho-Lyeong (born 15 October 1984) is a South Korean footballer who plays for Gyeongju KHNP FC in the Korea National League.
The October 1882 show was attended by two thousand people, including Manet, Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and Richard Wagner.
Joe Dial (born 26 October 1962 in Marlow, Oklahoma) is a retired American pole vaulter, best known for winning the bronze medal at the 1989 World Indoor Championships in Budapest.
Joseph Daniel Doerksen (born October 9, 1977) is a Canadian mixed martial artist from New Bothwell, Manitoba.
Joseph David Wijnkoop (Amsterdam, 14 August 1842 - Amsterdam, 1 October 1910) was a Dutch rabbi and scholar in Jewish studies.
She followed her chart success with a Top 3 hit in Ireland, a cover of River Deep – Mountain High" released in October 2009.
On 10 October 2010 Baptiste won the 200 m gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, ensuring England's first sprint gold at the games for 12 years since Julian Golding in 1998.
A request for proposal (RFP) was issued in July 1986, and two contractor teams, Lockheed, Boeing and General Dynamics, along with Northrop and McDonnell Douglas, were selected on 31 October 1986 to undertake a 50-month demonstration phase, culminating in the flight test of two prototypes, the YF-22 and the YF-23.
Levi scored his first goal in the Israeli Premier League on October 12, 2001; in the 90th minute of a match against Hapoel Petach Tikva in Bloomfield Stadium.
This fear was raised by military intelligence chief Eli Zeira at a situation assessment with the Chief of Staff on October 9.
The Air Service, Second Army Air Service was activated on October 12 with Col. Frank P. Lahm as chief, and the Air Service, Third Army Air Service was created immediately after the armistice to provide aviation support to the army of occupation, primarily from veteran units transferred from the First Army Air Service.
Phil Spitalny (November 7, 1890, Tetiev, Ukraine (territory of Russian Empire) – October 11, 1970, Miami Beach, Florida) was a musician, music critic, composer and bandleader heard often on radio during the 1930s and 1940s.
It is run at Saint-Cloud over a distance of 1,600 metres (about 1 mile), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late October or early November.
It was officially re-founded by Gerhard von Scharnhorst in Berlin on October 15, 1810 as one of three officer colleges.
Donna Rachele Mussolini (11 April 1890 – 30 October 1979) was the mistress, wife, and widow of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
On October 19, 2006, Adobe Systems acquired Serious Magic Inc. and its line of products.
Siegfried Salomo Lipiner (24 October 1856 – 30 December 1911) was an Austrian writer and poet whose works made an impression on Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche, but who published nothing after 1880 and lived out his life as Librarian of Parliament in Vienna.
He was admitted to the Middle Temple on 19 July 1628, was knighted on 3 October 1629, and sat in the Parliament of Ireland of 1634–35 as MP either for Tuam or Galway county.
By September the team were housed at the Dornier factory at Rickenbach near Lindau on Lake Constance and had largely completed design of the ATAR 101 by October 1945.
The 6th Marquess (d. 1985) was buried in Menton (France) for 25 years until the 8th Marquess had him reinterred in the vault of Ickworth Church in October 2010.
Stefan Gunnarsson, born October 24, 1968 in Boden, Sweden, is a Swedish musician, known as team captain in the Swedish TV program "Så ska det låta".
This was followed in June with their first full live album, Once Upon a Time in West Twelve, recorded at the Shepherds Bush Empire on 18 November 2005, and was followed on 29 October 2007, by a live DVD of the same concert under the title Beat about the Bush.
Tiberius Julius Caesar Nero Gemellus, known as Tiberius Gemellus (10 October AD 19–AD 37 or 38) was the son of Drusus and Livilla, the grandson of the Emperor Tiberius, and the cousin of the Emperor Caligula.
The Irish government, having obtained the Seville Declaration on Ireland's policy of military neutrality from the European Council, decided to have another referendum on the Treaty of Nice on Saturday, 19 October 2002.
It is edited, as of October 2013, by Anne Morton, Gary Presland and Maria Gibson.
On October 6, 1908, Porter was elected to serve as President of the New York Clearing House.
William Jeovanny Torres Alegría (born October 27, 1976 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran professional football player, who currently plays for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran Premier Division.
At only 23 years of age, and full of enthusiasm for his task, he was appointed consul to Gothenburg, Sweden on October 23, 1862.
In 1631, Wilhelm lost Baden to the Swedish General Gustav Horn and regained control only after the Peace of Prague (1635) and the Peace of Westphalia on 24 October 1648.