UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008.

UPI Almanac for Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007.

UPI almanac for Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006.

Today is Friday, Oct. 7, the 280th day of 2005 with 85 to follow.

Today is Thursday, Oct. 7, the 281st day of 2004 with 85 to follow.

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 7, the 280th day of 2003 with 85 to follow.

Vaughn Monroe born in Akron, Ohio, 1911. Fiddler Gordon Terry born, 1931.

Today is Monday, Oct. 7, the 280th day of 2002 with 85 to follow.

Pianist Lovie Austin was born this day in 1887 in Chattanooga, Tenn. She was a pioneering jazz woman who toured on the vaudeville circuit and directed her own New York club shows before settling in Chicago, where she became house pianist for Paramount Rec