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