Today is Monday, October 11, the 284th day of 2010. There are 81 days left in the year.
1737 _ Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys Calcutta, India
1923 _ German currency falls to 4 billion marks per U.S. dollar
1945 _ Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-shek vs. Mao Tse-tung
1979 _ Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing the CAT scan
1981 _ Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
1984 _ VP candidate debate-Geraldine Ferraro (D) vs. George Bush (R)
1986 _ Reagan and Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
1987 _ 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1990 _ Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature