SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2007

Today is Saturday, October 6, the 279th day of 2007. There are 86 days left in the year.

891 _ Formosus begins his reign as Catholic pope

1683 _ 13 German families arrive in present day Philadelphia

1884 _ The Naval War College established in Newport, R.I.

1889 _ Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture

1890 _ Mormon Church outlaws polygamy

1908 _ Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina

1928 _ Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China

1939 _ Hitler announces he has no attention of war with Britain and France

1949 _ President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)

1976 _ John Hathaway completes a bicycle tour of every continent in the world and cycling 50,600 miles

1976 _ President Ford says there is ``no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"

1979 _ Pope John Paul II is the first pope to visit the White House

1991 _ Elizabeth Taylor weds for the eighth time (Larry Fortensky)