Five Things to Know Today, Oct. 27

Welcome to Thursday. Here are some things to know as you head into the day.

The weather: A sunny start will become cloudier and cloudier, with a high of about 76 degrees, the National Weather Service says. The low tonight will be around 52  degrees, with a 30 percent chance of rain. Showers are likely tomorrow.

Gas prices are little changed. Nationally, the average for a gallon of regular is $3.441, and in Georgia, it's $3.394, according to AAA. Prices reported to www.georgiagasprices.com for Lilburn in the past 24 hours ranged from $3.31 (at QuikTrip, 4900 Stone Mountain Hwy near Stone Drive) to $3.39 (at Citgo, 1218 Turner Road at Five Forks Trickum).

A love story in the wind: Gone With The Wind was published 75 years ago this year, and a Gwinnett library is hosting a "meet the author" event tonight with Marianne Walker, who wrote the biography "Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh: The Love Story Behind Gone With the Wind." It starts at 7 p.m. tonight at the Collins Hill branch in Lawrenceville.

Rapid transit. The New York City subway opened on this day in 1904. It's not the oldest subway in the U.S. (that honor goes to Boston) but it quickly became the longest. On that first day, about 700,000 people took a ride for a nickel each. Nowadays its 4.5 million people a day.The New York subway started with just 28 stations.

High seas. It's the traditional Navy Day today, first observed in 1922 on the birthday of naval backer President Theodore Roosevelt. It was observed by the Navy League until another date was raised to prominence in the 1970s, the Oct. 13, 1775, formation of the Continental Navy, and that became widely recognized as Navy Day.