Today is Tuesday, October 9, the 282nd day of 2007. There are 83 days left in the year.
680 _ Husain ibn `Ali, Shi'i religious leader, enters martyrdom
1446 _ The Korean hangeul alphabet devised
1876 _ The first two-way telephone conversation, first over outdoor wires
1915 _ Woodrow Wilson becomes the first U.S. president to attend a world series game
1930 _ The first transcontinental flight by a woman (Laura Ingalls) completed
1936 _ Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA
1946 _ The first electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
1963 _ Uganda becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth
1970 _ Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
1975 _ Japanese Emperor Hirohito visits San Francisco
1975 _ Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
1983 _ Four South Korean cabinet ministers assassinated in Yangon, Myanmar
1990 _ Saddam Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile