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