- 1683: Thirteen Mennonite families from Germany founded Germantown,
                  Pa.
                - 1781: The siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown, the last battle of the
                  Revolutionary War, began.
                - 1783: Benjamin Hanks patented the self-winding clock.
                - 1866: The Reno Brothers committed the first train robbery in the
                  U.S.
                - 1876: The American Library Association was formed.
                - 1884: The Naval War College was founded in Rhode Island.
                - 1890: The Mormon Church banned polygamy.
                - 1893: Nabisco Foods invented Cream of Wheat.
                - 1927: The film "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson opened in New
                  York. It was the first full-length feature film to include spoken
                  dialogue and is regarded as the first "talkie."
                - 1939: Adolf Hitler, in a speech, denied he intended to go to war
                  against France and Britain.
                - 1949: President Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Act
                  establishing aid to NATO countries.
                - 1956: Dr. Albert Sabin discovered the oral polio vaccine.
                - 1961: President Kennedy advised every family to build a fallout
                  shelter.
                - 1973: War broke out in the Middle East when Egypt and Syria
                  attacked Israel over the Yom Kippur holiday.
                - 1981: Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was assassinated.

                *Happy Birthday*
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                - Shana Alexander, 73, journalist/author/commentator
                - Klaus Dibiasi, 51, Olympic diver
                - Britt Eklund, 56, actress
                - Fred Graham, 67, newscaster/journalist, CBS News, Court TV
                - Thor Heyerdahl, 84, explorer/anthropologist/writer (Kon-Tiki and
                  RA expeditions)
                - Elisabeth Shue, 35, actress, "Leaving Las Vegas"
                - Ellen Travolta, 58, actress, "Grease," "Charles in Charge"
                - Walter Ray Williams Jr., 39, bowler, twice Player of the Year