Today is Monday, October 6, the 280th day of 2008. There are 86 days left in the year.
1866 _ First train robbery in U.S.
1889 _ Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
1890 _ Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
1908 _ Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
1928 _ Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China
1939 _ Hitler announces he has no attention of war with Britain and France
1959 _ Soviet Luna 3, first successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
1973 _ Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
1976 _ President Ford says there is ``no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
1991 _ Elizabeth Taylor weds for the eighth time (Larry Fortensky)