1858: The first Butterfield Stage stops at Warner Ranch on its 2,600-mile, 24-day trip from Tipton, Mo., to San Francisco, the southern overland route into California.
1876: The American Library Association is founded in Philadelphia.
1927: “The Jazz Singer,” starring Al Jolson, a movie that features both silent and sound-synchronized scenes, introduces the era of talking pictures.
1973: War erupts in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria attack Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.
1981: Egyptian President and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Anwar Sadat is shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade.
2000: Bowing to a vast popular revolt against him, Slobodan Milosevic resigns as president of Yugoslavia, ending 13 years of rule that brought his country four wars, international isolation, a NATO bombing campaign and his own indictment on war-crimes charges.
SOURCES: Union-Tribune archives; Associated Press; World Almanac
