Today is Friday, October 8, the 281st day of 2010. There are 84 days left in the year.

On this date

In 1954, Communist-led Vietnamese forces the "Viet Minh", occupy Hanoi.

In 1970, Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.

Thought for Today

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." — Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (1875-1961).