Today is Thursday, October 22, the 295th day of 2009. There are 70 days left in the year.
1928 _ President Hoover speaks of ``American system of rugged individualism"
1938 _ First Xerox copy made
1953 _ Laos gains full independence from France
1954 _ West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization
1962 _ JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis
1963 _ 225,000 students boycott Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest
1973 _ Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to the Yom Kippur War
1975 _ Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus
1980 _ New South Korean constitution comes into effect
1981 _ U.S. national debt tops $1 trillion