THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2008

Today is Thursday, October 9, the 283rd day of 2008. There are 83 days left in the year.

1446 _ Korean Hangul alphabet devised

1930 _ First transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls

1965 _ Beatles' ``Yesterday," single goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 4 weeks

1973 _ Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after six years

1975 _ Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits S.F.

1975 _ Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize

1980 _ First consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville, Tenn.)

1983 _ Four South Korean cabinet ministers assassinated in Rangoon, Burma

1990 _ Radio stations around the world play ``Imagine" honoring John Lennon

1990 _ Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile