Today is Tuesday, October 6, the 279th day of 2009. There are 86 days left in the year.
1863 _ Dr. Charles H. Sheppard opens the first public bath, in Brooklyn
1889 _ Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
1890 _ Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
1908 _ Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
1927 _ ``Jazz Singer," first movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
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
1976 _ President Ford says there is ``no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
1991 _ Elizabeth Taylor weds for the eighth time (Larry Fortensky)