The Golden Age of Arcade Games was a peak era of arcade game popularity and innovation. Some opinions place this period's beginning in late 1979 or 1980 when the first color arcade games appeared and arcades began to become prevalent, and its ending in the mid-1980s. More generous definitions place its start at the 1978 release of Space Invaders and its end in the mid-1990s with the release of home gaming systems which were more powerful than typical arcade hardware. Despite claims to the contrary, the video game crash of 1983 had little impact on the arcade game industry. In fact, it may have boosted it since people played more games in arcades since little was available for the home market.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1927 The first talking movie "The Jazz Singer", starring Al Jolson, was released and became a box-office success. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jazz_Singer)

1967 The Yom Kippur War began as a simultaneous coordinated attack by Egypt and Syria in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights, respectively, to regain the territories lost to Israel in the Six-Day War in 1967. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War)

1976 Premier Hua Guofeng ordered the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in China. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four_%28China%29)

1981 Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat was assassinated. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al%2dSadat)

1998 Gay-bashing: University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was fatally attacked for being gay. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard)

Wikiquote of the day:

"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful." ~ Marie Curie (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marie_Curie)