FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014

Today is Friday, October 10, the 283rd day of 2014. There are 82 days left in the year.

1868 ― Cuba revolts for independence against Spain

1886 ― First dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, N.Y. (the tuxedo)

1911 ― Sun Yat-sen’s revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day)

1935 ― George Gershwin’s “Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway

1943 ― Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China

1957 ― President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del., restaurant

1963 ― Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by U.S., U.K., USSR

1964 ― 18th modern Olympic Games opens in Tokyo

1975 ― Liz Taylor’s sixth marriage (remarries Richard Burton)

1976 ― Greece’s 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33

1991 ― Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy