THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2015

Today is Thursday, October 8, the 281st day of 2015. There are 84 days left in the year.

1604 ― The supernova called ``Kepler’s nova” is 1st sighted

1775 ― Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army

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

1957 ― Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles

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