OCTOBER 6TH

Today is Monday, Oct. 6, the 280th day of 2008.
There are 86 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

• On Oct. 6, 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of "The Jazz Singer," a movie starring Al Jolson that featured both silent and sound-synchronized scenes.

On this date:

• In 1683, thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America's oldest settlements.
• In 1884, the Naval War College was established in Newport, R,I.
• In 1908, actress Carole Lombard was born in Fort Wayne, Ind.
• In 1928, Chiang Kai-shek was elected the president of China.
• In 1948, the Tennessee Williams play "Summer and Smoke" opened on Broadway.
• In 1958, the nuclear submarine USS Seawolf surfaced after spending 60 days submerged.
• In 1973, war erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.
• In 1976, in his second debate with Jimmy Carter, President Ford asserted there was "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe." (Ford later conceded he'd misspoken.)
• In 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade.
• In 1983, Cardinal Terence Cooke, the spiritual head of the Archdiocese of New York, died at age 62.

Ten years ago:

• With a House vote set on launching an open-ended impeachment inquiry, Democrats rushed to counter Republican plans while still underscoring their disapproval of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Five years ago:

• American Paul Lauterbur and Briton Peter Mansfield won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discoveries that led to magnetic resonance imaging.
• Democrat Bob Graham announced on CNN's "Larry King Live" that he was ending his presidential campaign.
• Akhmad Kadyrov, Russia's hand-picked man to lead Chechnya, was declared winner of the republic's presidential election (he was assassinated in May 2004).

One year ago:

• Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf won a presidential election boycotted by most of his opponents.
• British adventurer Jason Lewis finally returned home, completing a 13-year, 46,000-mile human-powered circumnavigation of the globe at Greenwich, England.

Today's Birthdays:

• Actress Britt Ekland is 66.
• Impressionist Fred Travalena is 66.
• Singer Millie Small is 62.
• Singer-musician Thomas McClary is 58.
• Rock singer Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) is 57.
• Rock singer-musician David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) is 54.
• Actress Elisabeth Shue is 45.
• Singer Matthew Sweet is 44.
• Actress Jacqueline Obradors is 42.
• Country singer Tim Rushlow is 42.
• Rock musician Tommy Stinson is 42.
• Actress Emily Mortimer is 37.
• Actor Ioan Gruffudd is 35.
• Actor Jeremy Sisto is 34.

Thought for Today:

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892).

"Let's all be careful out there!"