TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2007

Today is Tuesday, October 16, the 289th day of 2007. There are 76 days left in the year.

1311 _ Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens

1781 _ Washington takes Yorktown

1923 _ Disney Co. founded

1940 _ Warsaw Ghetto established

1941 _ Germany advances within 60 miles (96km) of Moscow

1946 _ 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials

1962 _ Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba

1964 _ Brezhnev and Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia

1964 _ China becomes world's fifth nuclear power

1970 _ Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser

1973 _ Kissinger and Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1978 _ Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II

1984 _ Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins the Nobel Peace Prize

1990 _ U.S. forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf