Today is Saturday, October 9, the 282nd day of 2010. There are 83 days left in the year.
680 ― Husain ibn Ali, religious leader, enters martyrdom
1000 ― Leif Ericson discovers ``Vinland" (possibly New England)
1446 ― Korean Hangeul alphabet devised
1876 ― First two-way telephone conversation, first over outdoor wires
1965 ― Beatles' ``Yesterday," single goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for four weeks
1975 ― Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
1980 ― First consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville ,Tenn.)
1983 ― 17 South Korean Cabinet minister-level officials assassinated in Yangon, Miyanmar
1989 ― Penthouse Magazine's Hebrew edition hits the newsstands
1990 ― Radio stations around the world play ``Imagine" honoring John Lennon