Today is Tuesday, October 27, the 300th day of 2009. There are 65 days left in the year.
1904 _ World's first subway, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in NYC subway
1916 _ First published reference to ``jazz" appears (Variety)
1938 _ DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called ``nylon"
1941 _ Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan
1954 _ Walt Disney's first TV show, ``Disneyland," premieres on ABC
1969 _ Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader's Raiders
1978 _ Begin and Sadat win the Nobel Peace prize
1979 _ Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
1982 _ China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
1987 _ South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution