WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014

Today is Wednesday, October 8, the 281st day of 2015. 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

1945 ― Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada

1957 ― Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles

1962 ― North 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”

1981 ― President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat’s funeral

1982 ― Poland bans Solidarity