Todays History

Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of treason

The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.

Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children’s Hospital.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.

The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.

North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.

In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to nearly 900.

Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.

Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.