WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012

Today is Wednesday, October 10, the 284th day of 2012. There are 82 days left in the year.

1865 ― John Hyatts patents the billiard ball

1868 ― Cuba revolts for independence against Spain

1886 ― First dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, N.Y. (the tuxedo)

1911 ― Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day)

1933 ― First synthetic detergent for home use marketed

1935 ― George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway

1957 ― President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del., restaurant

1963 ― Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by U.S., U.K., USSR

1975 ― Liz Taylor's sixth marriage (remarries Richard Burton)

1981 ― Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo