TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2007

Today is Tuesday, October 9, the 282nd day of 2007. There are 83 days left in the year.

680 _ Husain ibn `Ali, Shi'i religious leader, enters martyrdom

1446 _ The Korean hangeul alphabet devised

1876 _ The first two-way telephone conversation, first over outdoor wires

1915 _ Woodrow Wilson becomes the first U.S. president to attend a world series game

1930 _ The first transcontinental flight by a woman (Laura Ingalls) completed

1936 _ Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA

1946 _ The first electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50

1963 _ Uganda becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth

1970 _ Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence

1975 _ Japanese Emperor Hirohito visits San Francisco

1975 _ Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize

1983 _ Four South Korean cabinet ministers assassinated in Yangon, Myanmar

1990 _ Saddam Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile