Oct. 6, 1927 The era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of "The Jazz Singer," a movie starring Al Jolson that featured both silent and sound-synchronized scenes.

1683 Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America's oldest settlements.

1884 The Naval War College was established in Newport, R.I.

1908 Actress Carole Lombard was born in Fort Wayne, Ind.

1928 Chiang Kai-shek was elected the president of China.

1948 The Tennessee Williams play "Summer and Smoke" opened on Broadway.

1958 The nuclear submarine USS Seawolf surfaced after spending 60 days submerged.

1973 War erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.

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.)

1981 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade.

1983 Cardinal Terence Cooke, the spiritual head of the Archdiocese of New York, died at age 62.

Ten years ago With a House vote set on launching an open-ended impeachment inquiry, Democrats rushed to counter Republican plans while still underscoring their disapproval of President Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Five 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, Russia's handpicked man to lead Chechnya, was declared winner of the republic's presidential election. (He was assassinated in May 2004.)

One year ago Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf won a presidential election boycotted by most of his opponents. British adventurer Jason Lewis finally returned home, completing a 13-year, 46,000-mile human-powered circumnavigation of the globe at Greenwich, England.

Virginia In 1817, the cornerstone of the first academic building for Central College in Albemarle County was laid. The building later became Pavilion VII of the University of Virginia.

Today's Birthdays Actress Britt Ekland is 66. Impressionist Fred Travalena is 66. Singer Millie Small is 62. Singer-musician Thomas McClary is 58. Rock singer Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) is 57. Rock singer-musician David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) is 54. Actress Elisabeth Shue is 45. Singer Matthew Sweet is 44. Actress Jacqueline Obradors is 42. Country singer Tim Rushlow is 42. Rock musician Tommy Stinson is 42. Actress Emily Mortimer is 37. Actor Ioan Gruffudd is 35. Actor Jeremy Sisto is 34.

Thought for Today "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892).