Today is Saturday, October 6, the 279th day of 2007. There are 86 days left in the year.
891 _ Formosus begins his reign as Catholic pope
1683 _ 13 German families arrive in present day Philadelphia
1884 _ The Naval War College established in Newport, R.I.
1889 _ Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
1890 _ Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
1908 _ Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina
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)
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"
1979 _ Pope John Paul II is the first pope to visit the White House
1991 _ Elizabeth Taylor weds for the eighth time (Larry Fortensky)