FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2011

Today is Friday, October 7, the 280th day of 2011. There are 85 days left in the year.

3761 B.C. ― Origin of Jewish Mundane Era

1737 ― 40-foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)

1900 ― The term ``orienteering" is first used for an event

1938 ― Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J

1950 ― U.S. forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel

1967 ― Beatles turn down $1 million N.Y. concert offer by Sid Bernstein

1968 ― Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system

1988 ― Robin Givens files for divorce after eight-month marriage to Mike Tyson

1989 ― Rickey Henderson steals a record eight bases in a play-off (five games)

1990 ― Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens