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MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2008

Today is Monday, October 13, the 287th day of 2008. There are 79 days left in the year. 1483 _ Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on the Bible 1860 _ First aerial photo taken in Boston, U.S. (from a balloon) 1919 _ Race riot at Elaine, Ark. 1943 _ Italy declares war on former ally Germany 1944 _ U.S. first army begins battle of Aachen 1962 _ ``Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen 1963 _ ``Beatlemania" is coined after the Beatles appear at the Palladium 1972 _ Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12/23 rescue) 1981 _ Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt 1987 _ First military use of trained dolphins (U.S. Navy in Persian Gulf)

Oct 12, 2008

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2008

Today is Saturday, October 11, the 285th day of 2008. There are 81 days left in the year. 1737 _ Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys Calcutta, India 1890 _ First 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4/5 secs, Washington D.C.) 1932 _ First political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC 1936 _ ``Professor Quiz," first radio quiz show premieres 1945 _ Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-shek vs. Mao Tse-tung 1968 _ Panama revolts 1981 _ Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at L.A. Coliseum 1986 _ Reagan and Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland 1987 _ 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington 1991 _ Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her

Oct 10, 2008

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2008

Today is Friday, October 10, the 284th day of 2008. There are 82 days left in the year. 1780 _ Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean 1846 _ Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell 1868 _ Cuba revolts for independence against Spain 1911 _ Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan's National Day) 1933 _ First synthetic detergent for home use marketed 1935 _ George Gershwin's ``Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway 1943 _ Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China 1973 _ V.P. Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns 1975 _ Liz Taylor's sixth marriage (remarries Richard Burton) 1981 _ Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo

Oct 9, 2008

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2008

Today is Thursday, October 9, the 283rd day of 2008. There are 83 days left in the year. 1446 _ Korean Hangul alphabet devised 1930 _ First transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls 1965 _ Beatles' ``Yesterday," single goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 4 weeks 1973 _ Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after six years 1975 _ Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits S.F. 1975 _ Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize 1980 _ First consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1983 _ Four South Korean cabinet ministers assassinated in Rangoon, Burma 1990 _ Radio stations around the world play ``Imagine" honoring John Lennon 1990 _ Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile

Oct 8, 2008

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2008

Today is Wednesday, October 8, the 282nd day of 2008. There are 84 days left in the year. 1604 _ The supernova called ``Kepler's nova" is first sighted 1775 _ Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army 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 mega-hit ``Imagine" 1982 _ Poland bans Solidarity

Oct 7, 2008

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2008

Today is Tuesday, October 7, the 281st day of 2008. There are 85 days left in the year. 3761 B.C. _ Origin of Jewish Mundane Era 1886 _ Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba 1900 _ The term ``orienteering" is first used for an event 1950 _ U.S. forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel 1959 _ Far side of Moon seen for first time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3 1968 _ Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system 1988 _ Latvian flag raised in Riga for first time since annexation by USSR 1988 _ Robin Givens files for divorce after eight-month marriage to Mike Tyson 1989 _ Rickey Henderson steals a record eight bases in a play-off (five games) 1990 _ Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens

Oct 6, 2008

MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2008

Today is Monday, October 6, the 280th day of 2008. There are 86 days left in the year. 1866 _ First train robbery in U.S. 1889 _ Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture 1890 _ Mormon Church outlaws polygamy 1908 _ Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina 1928 _ Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China 1939 _ Hitler announces he has no attention of war with Britain and France 1959 _ Soviet Luna 3, first successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon 1973 _ Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel 1976 _ President Ford says there is ``no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe" 1991 _ Elizabeth Taylor weds for the eighth time (Larry Fortensky)

Oct 5, 2008

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2008

Today is Saturday, October 4, the 278th day of 2008. There are 88 days left in the year. 1824 _ Mexico becomes a republic 1830 _ Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands 1864 _ New Orleans Tribune, first black daily newspaper, forms 1883 _ Orient Express' first run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail 1910 _ Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England 1940 _ Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in the Alps 1955 _ Rev. Moon Sun-myong leaves prison in Seoul 1958 _ 5th French republic established 1958 _ Transatlantic commercial jet passenger service began (BOAC) 1984 _ U.S. government closes down due to budget problems

Oct 3, 2008

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2008

Today is Friday, October 3, the 277th day of 2007. There are 89 days left in the year. 2333 B.C. _ Tangun establishes Kingdom of Joseon (legendary) 1863 _ Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day 1922 _ First facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C. 1929 _ Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia 1945 _ World Federation of Trade Unions formed; CIO a member 1947 _ First telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed 1971 _ Billie Jean King became first female athlete to win $100,000 1974 _ Watergate trial begins 1983 _ Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release ``Say, Say, Say" in U.K. 1990 _ East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany

Oct 2, 2008

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2008

Today is Thursday, October 2, the 276th day of 2008. There are 90 days left in the year. 1187 _ Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders 1608 _ Hans Lippershey offers Dutch government a new invention, the telescope 1870 _ Italy annexes Rome and Papal States; Rome made Italian capital 1936 _ First alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kans. 1942 _ ``Queen Mary" slices cruiser ``Curacao" in half, killing 338 1950 _ The comic strip ``Peanuts" first appears in nine newspapers 1967 _ Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents 1984 _ Richard Miller, becomes first (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage 1986 _ Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi 1990 _ Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is ``The End" by the Doors

Oct 1, 2008

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