Today is Thursday, October 9, the 283rd day of 2008. There are 83 days left in the year.
1446 _ Korean Hangul alphabet devised
1930 _ First transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
1965 _ Beatles' ``Yesterday," single goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 4 weeks
1973 _ Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after six years
1975 _ Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits S.F.
1975 _ Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
1980 _ First consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville, Tenn.)
1983 _ Four South Korean cabinet ministers assassinated in Rangoon, Burma
1990 _ Radio stations around the world play ``Imagine" honoring John Lennon
1990 _ Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile