SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2010

Today is Saturday, October 16, the 289th day of 2010. There are 76 days left in the year.

1916 _ Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic (46 Amboy St., Brooklyn)

1923 _ Disney Co. founded

1925 _ Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution

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 _ China becomes world's fifth nuclear power

1968 _ During Olympics Tommie Smith and John Carlos give black power salute

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

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

1982 _ Shultz warns U.S. will withdraw from U.N. if they vote to exclude Israel