Today is Tuesday, October 14, the 288th day of 2008. There are 78 days left in the year.
1066 _ Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England
1867 _ 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan
1884 _ George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
1922 _ First automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC
1933 _ Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations
1953 _ Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment
1960 _ Peace Corps first suggested by JFK
1964 _ Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize
1968 _ First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft (Apollo 7)
1982 _ 6,000 Unification Church couples wed in Korea