Today is Monday, October 8, the 281st day of 2007. There are 84 days left in the year.
451_ The Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens
1604 _ Supernova called ``Kepler's nova" is 1st sighted
1840 _ The first Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
1912 _ The first Balkan War begins
1939 _ Germany annexes Western Poland
1945 _ Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
1962 _ Algeria admitted as 109th member of the U.N.
1962 _ North Korea reports 100 percent election turnout, 100 percent vote for Workers' Party
1970 _ Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit
1982 _ Poland bans Solidarity
1990 _ Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters