THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2007

Today is Thursday, October 11, the 284th day of 2007. There are 81 days left in the year.

1797 _ British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, the Netherlands

1864 _ Slavery abolished in Maryland

1890 _ Daughters of the American Revolution founded

1919 _ The first transcontinental air race ends

1945 _ A Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-shek vs Mao Tse-tung

1962 _ The second Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII

1968 _ Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours

1968 _ Panama revolts

1977 _ Soyuz 25 returns to Earth

1984 _ NASA launches space vehicle S-208

1986 _ Reagan and Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland

1987 _ 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington

1990 _ Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature