the holdings of the two U.S. oil companies operating in the Arab nation, Exxon and Mobil, as a show of support for Egypt and Syria in their war against Israel. The Iraqi government urged other Arab nations to immediately halt the export of their oil to the U.S. and to any other nations supporting Israel. An attempt to assassinate the President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III, failed after land mines placed along the road he was traveling exploded prematurely. Makarios was being driven from Nicosia to Sunday mass at the Greek Orthodox Church in the village of Agios Sergios and the four explosives detonated five minutes before his car would have passed over them. On the second day of the Yom Kippur War, the Israel Defense Force's 162nd Division destroyed 60 tanks of the Egyptian 25th Brigade in a battle in the Sinai peninsula, at the loss of only three Israeli tanks. Born: Grigol Mgaloblishvili, Prime Minister of Georgia, 2008 to 2009, Georgian representative to NATO since 2009; in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union Dida (Nélson de Jesus Silva), Brazilian soccer football goalkeeper with 91 caps for the Brazil national team; in Irará, Bahia state Priest Holmes, American football running back, 2001 NFL rushing yards leader and 2002 NFL scoring leader; in Fort Smith, Arkansas Sami Hyypiä, Finnish soccer football centre-back with 105 caps for the Finnish national team; in Porvoo October 8, 1973 (Monday) As Syrian tanks swept across the Golan Heights, and a counter-attack against Egypt in the Sinai peninsula failed to halt an advance, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir gave Defense Minister Moshe Dayan an authorization to assemble Israel's 13 nuclear weapons and to distribute them to Israeli Air Force units. The nuclear bombs were to be used only if Egyptian or Syrian troops invaded Israel itself."Nuclear Arms in Cris under Secrecy: Israel and the Lessons of the 1967 and 1973 Wars", by Avner Cohen, in Planning the Unthinkable: How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons (Cornell University Press, 2000) p. 117 The United Kingdom's 50-year monopoly on radio broadcasting came to an end as the London Broadcasting Company (LBC) became the first legal commercial radio station. Starting at 6:00 in the morning with David Jessel announcing, and operating on 720 KHz (417 meters) on the AM dial, LBC transmitted Independent Radio News reports and commentary 24 hours a day."Enter commercial radio, out of