Today in HistoryToday is Wednesday, October 11, the 284th day of 2006. There are 81 days left in the year.

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IIn 1986, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks concerning arms control and human rights in In 1996, Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor won the Nobel Peace Prize for their pro-democracy efforts in troubled East Timor.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“Compassion is the basis of all morality.” — Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860).