Today is Saturday, October 10, the 283rd day of 2009. There are 82 days left in the year.
1780 _ Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean
1865 _ John Hyatts patents the billiard ball
1868 _ Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
1886 _ First dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, N.Y. (the tuxedo)
1911 _ Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchu (Taiwan National Day)
1935 _ George Gershwin's ``Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway
1963 _ Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by U.S., U.K., USSR
1964 _ 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo
1975 _ Liz Taylor's sixth marriage (remarries Richard Burton)
1976 _ Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33