Today in HistoryToday <$>is Tuesday, October 24, the 297th day of 2006. There are 68 days left in the year.

ON THIS DATE<$>

In 1945, Vidkun Quisling, prime minister of Norway during the German occupation, was executed by firing squad in Oslo for high treason. His surname has become a byword for treachery.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.” — Phyllis McGinley, American poet and author (1905-1978).