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!"