Friday, October 7, 2011

8 October 1968

United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta called Operation

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

7 October 1982

The musical, Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before it closes on September 10,

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

6 October 1976

All 73 people on board are killed as Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA,

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Monday, October 3, 2011

4 October 1777

Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe during the Battle of

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Sunday, October 2, 2011

3 October 1993

Trying to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US soldiers and 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy

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Saturday, October 1, 2011

2 October 1967

Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American justice of United States Supreme

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