Today is Wednesday, October 10, the 283rd day of 2007. There are 82 days left in the year.
1780 _ Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean
1802 _ The first non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma
1868 _ Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
1874 _ Fiji becomes a British possession
1911 _ Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day)
1933 _ The first synthetic detergent for home use marketed
1935 _ George Gershwin's ``Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway
1938 _ Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
1943 _ Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China
1963 _ A treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by the U.S., U.K., the USSR
1964 _ The 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo
1970 _ Fiji gains independence from Britain
1979 _ Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area
1981 _ Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo
1982 _ Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev. M. Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
1991 _ Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy