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• On Oct. 6, 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of "The Jazz Singer," starring Al Jolson, a movie that featured both silent and sound-synchronized sequences.
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• In 1536, English theologian and scholar William Tyndale, who was the first to translate the Bible into Early Modern English, was executed for heresy.
• 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 1928, Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.
• In 1939, as remaining military resistance in Poland crumbled, Adolf Hitler delivered a speech to the Reichstag blaming the Poles for the Nazi-Soviet invasion of their country.
• In 1949, U.S.-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted of treason for being Japanese wartime broadcaster "Tokyo Rose," was sentenced in San Francisco to 10 years in prison (she ended up serving more than six).
• 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 Gerald R. Ford asserted there was "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe." (Ford later conceded he'd misspoken.)
• In 1979, Pope John Paul II, on a week-long U.S. tour, became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy Carter.
• In 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade.
• In 1989, actress Bette Davis died in Neuilly-sur-Seine (nu-yee-sur-sehn), France, at age 81.
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• Ten 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 (kuh-DEE'-ruhv), Russia's hand-picked man to lead Chechnya, was declared winner of the republic's presidential election. (He was assassinated in May 2004.)
• Five years ago: As Wall Street reeled and global markets plunged, President

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