SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2012

Today is Saturday, October 6, the 280th day of 2012. There are 86 days left in the year.

1683 ― Thirteen German families arrive in present day Philadelphia

1889 ― Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture

1890 ― Mormon Church outlaws polygamy

1928 ― Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China

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

1949 ― President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)

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

1976 ― John Hathaway completes a bicycle tour of every continent in the world and cycling 50,600 miles

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

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