CNN Interactive - Almanac - October 8, 1998

What happens to me, I think, ultimately will be for the American people to decide. I owe them my best efforts to work for them and that is what I'm going to do.

-- President Clinton

The winner of the Nobel Prize in literature is expected to be announced in Stockholm, Sweden.
NATO ambassadors are scheduled to meet in Brussels to discuss the situation in Kosovo.
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and International Monetary Fund meet on Asian financial crisis.
House Banking Committee hearing to consider the implications of European Monetary Union on U.S. currency policy.
Talks scheduled to resume in New York in the NBA player lockout.
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton scheduled as keynote speaker for 40th anniversary of Women's Emergency Committee to Open our Schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Friday, October 9, President Clinton is scheduled to meet with German Chancellor-elect Gerhard Schroeder.
Saturday, October 10, Conference on Human Dignity and Policing sponsored by the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives is scheduled in New York.
Sunday, October 11, official canonization ceremony is to be held at the Vatican for Edith Stein, Jewish-born nun who was killed at Auschwitz.
Monday, October 12, President Clinton is scheduled to make campaign appearances for candidates in New York and Miami.
Tuesday, October 13, U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in AT&T vs.Iowa Utilities.

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In 1869, Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States, died in Concord, New Hampshire.
In 1918, Sgt. Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France.
In 1934, Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder in the death of the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh.
In 1944, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" made its debut on CBS Radio, on Ozzie and Harriet Nelson's ninth wedding anniversary.
In 1945, President Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.
In 1956, Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series to date as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0.
In 1982, all labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, were banned.