Today is Saturday, October 8, the 281st day of 2011. There are 84 days left in the year.
1604 ― The supernova called ``Kepler's nova" is first sighted
1818 ― Two English boxers are first to use padded gloves
1945 ― Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
1955 ― Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (U.S.), launched
1957 ― Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
1962 ― N. Korea reports 100-percent election turnout, 100-percent vote for Workers' Party
1970 ― Soviet author Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
1971 ― John Lennon releases his megahit ``Imagine"
1982 ― Poland bans Solidarity
1990 ― Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters