Today is Thursday, October 8, the 281st day of 2009. There are 84 days left in the year.
1604 _ The supernova called ``Kepler's nova" is first sighted
1912 _ First Balkan War begins
1939 _ Germany annexes Western Poland
1945 _ Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
1957 _ Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
1962 _ North Korea reports 100-percent election turnout, 100-percent vote for Workers' Party
1970 _ Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
1971 _ John Lennon releases his megahit ``Imagine"
1981 _ President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
1982 _ Poland bans Solidarity