Today is Thursday, October 7, the 280th day of 2010. There are 85 days left in the year.
3761 B.C. ― Origin of Jewish Mundane Era
1571 ― Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish and Italians in Battle of Lepanto
1737 ― 40-foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
1900 ― The term ``orienteering" is first used for an event
1931 ― First infra-red photograph, Rochester, N.Y.
1938 ― Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J
1950 ― U.S. forces invade North Korea by crossing the 38th parallel
1958 ― U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury
1959 ― Far side of Moon seen for first time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3
1990 ― Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens