On Oct. 9, 2004, Afghan voters went to the polls for the first time in their nation’s history to vote for a president and elected Hamid Karzai, who had served as their interim president after the collapse of the Taliban regime three years earlier._ On Oct. 10, 1845, George Bancroft -- historian, educator and secretary of the Navy -- founded the U.S.Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, to improve the then-unsatisfactory methods of instructing the service’s midshipmen._ On Oct. 11, 2000, at a ceremony in London, the International Women of the Year Association awarded the title “Greatest Woman Achiever of the ...