MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2012

Today is Monday, October8, the 282nd day of 2012. There are 84 days left in the year.

1604 ― The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is first sighted

1818 ― Two English boxers are first to use padded gloves

1896 ― Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks

1912 ― First Balkan War begins

1939 ― Germany annexes western Poland

1945 ― Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada

1962 ― N. Korea reports 100 percent election turnout, 100 percent vote for Workers' Party

1970 ― Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for literature

1971 ― John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"

1982 ― Poland bans Solidarity