THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2014

Today is Thursday, October 16, the 289th day of 2014. There are 76 days left in the year.

1916 ― Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic (46 Amboy St., Brooklyn)

1923 ― Disney Co. founded

1926 ― Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200

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

1978 ― Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II

1982 ― Shultz warns U.S. will withdraw from U.N. if they vote to exclude Israel