Today is Saturday, October 25, the 299th day of 2008. There are 67 days left in the year.
1870 _ Postcards first used in U.S.
1945 _ Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen Chiang Kai-shek
1951 _ Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjeom
1960 _ First electronic wristwatch placed on sale, NYC
1962 _ American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
1962 _ Stevenson demands USSR Amb. Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying, ``I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
1963 _ Beatles begin their first full foreign tour in Sweden
1983 _ U.S. invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (U.S. Wins!)
1986 _ International Red Cross ousted from South Africa
1990 _ N.Y. Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)