Today is Wednesday, October 11, the 284th day of 2017. There are 81 days left in the year.
1968 — Panama revolts
1971 — Frank McGee becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1975 — "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin
1977 — Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
1978 — Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
1979 — Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing the CAT scan
1980 — Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
1981 — Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
1981 — Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series