Today is Friday, October 16, the 289th day of 2009. There are 76 days left in the year.
1916 _ Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic (46 Amboy St., Brooklyn)
1923 _ Disney Co. founded
1942 _ Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta, India
1945 _ U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization comes into existence
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
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