Today is Wednesday, October 6, the 279th day of 2010. There are 86 days left in the year.
1781 ― Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of the Revolutionary War
1863 ― Dr. Charles H Sheppard opens the first public bath, in Brooklyn
1889 ― Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
1928 ― Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China
1949 ― President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1959 ― Soviet Luna 3, first successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
1973 ― Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
1976 ― John Hathaway completes a bicycle tour of every continent in the world and cycling 50,600 miles
1976 ― President Ford says there is ``no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
1991 ― Elizabeth Taylor weds for the eighth time (Larry Fortensky)