The United States and its allies in the Caribbean invade Grenada, 6 days after the Prime Minister and several of his supporters are executed in…

The police arrest John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, putting an end to the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.

In Moscow, Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater taking approximately 700 hostage.

US President John F. Kennedy announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval “quarantine”…

Women get the right to vote in France for the first time.

Big Foot is allegedly filmed

The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration that officially ended the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August…

The United States purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.

The New York World’s Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 000 000 people had attended the two-year event.

Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.