- Warminster Township has reformed its Skate Spot Committee. Its next meeting is on Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. at the , where committee members will discuss a Bike and SK8 event for 2012.
- Showers before 4 p.m. today with a high in the mid 60s, according to the National Weather Service.
- William Tennent's girls varsity soccer team hosts a game against St. Huberts at 7 p.m. Also at 7 p.m., Tennent's girls volleyball plays a home match against Lansdale Catholic.
- A Pennsylvania company has won a $1.35 million prize from NASA for developing a highly efficient airplane power by electricity, CNN reports. Pipistrel-USA.com of State College earned the top prize in the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google, NASA announced Monday. The plane developed by Pipistrel doubled the fuel efficiency requirement for the competition – flying 200 miles in less than two hours while using less than a gallon of fuel per occupant or the equivalent in electricity. The winning plane used a little more than a half-gallon of fuel per passenger for the 200-mile flight.
- On this day, October 4, 1957, Sputnik I is launched and becomes the first aritficial satellite to orbit the Earth.
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