Today is Friday, October 10, the 284th day of 2008. There are 82 days left in the year.
1780 _ Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean
1846 _ Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
1868 _ Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
1911 _ Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan's National Day)
1933 _ First synthetic detergent for home use marketed
1935 _ George Gershwin's ``Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway
1943 _ Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China
1973 _ V.P. Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns
1975 _ Liz Taylor's sixth marriage (remarries Richard Burton)
1981 _ Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo