TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2008

Today is Tuesday, October 14, the 288th day of 2008. There are 78 days left in the year.

1066 _ Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England

1867 _ 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan

1884 _ George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film

1922 _ First automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC

1933 _ Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations

1953 _ Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment

1960 _ Peace Corps first suggested by JFK

1964 _ Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize

1968 _ First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft (Apollo 7)

1982 _ 6,000 Unification Church couples wed in Korea