Today is Monday, October8, the 282nd day of 2012. 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
1896 ― Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
1912 ― First Balkan War begins
1939 ― Germany annexes western Poland
1945 ― Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
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