Today is Tuesday, October 16, the 290th day of 2012. There are 76 days left in the year.
1916 ― Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic (46 Amboy, St. Brooklyn)
1923 ― Disney Co. founded
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
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
1986 ― U.S. government closes down due to budget problems