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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2008

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  • Published Oct 9, 2008 4:50 pm KST
  • Updated Oct 9, 2008 4:50 pm KST

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