MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2008

Today is Monday, October 6, the 280th day of 2008. There are 86 days left in the year.

1866 _ First train robbery in U.S.

1889 _ Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture

1890 _ Mormon Church outlaws polygamy

1908 _ Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina

1928 _ Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China

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

1959 _ Soviet Luna 3, first successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon

1973 _ Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel

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

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