Today is Thursday, October 8, the 281st day of 2015. There are 84 days left in the year.
1604 ― The supernova called ``Kepler’s nova” is 1st sighted
1775 ― Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army
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
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