Event:
The Buffalo Bills are being sold to businessman Terry Pegula for $1.4 billion, the highest price paid in history for an NFL team; previously owner Ralph Wilson, now deceased, paid $25,000 in 1959
More Notable Events on October 8:
1993 U.N. lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
1982 Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions
1958 Dr. Ake Senning installs 1st pacemaker in Stockholm
1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks
1860 Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens
