Today in HistoryToday is Tuesday, October 10, the 283rd day of 2006. There are 82 days left in the year.

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In 1935, George Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” opened on Broadway.

In 1938, Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.

In 1956, the New York Yankees won the World Series, defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers, 9-0, in Game 7 at Ebbets Field.

In 1981, funeral services were held in Cairo for Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat, who had been assassinated by Muslim extremists.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” — Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (1885-1962).