My birthday...
Births:Tom Cruise
Teemu Selänne
Franz Kafka
Events:1988 - US Navy cruiser USS Vincennes accidentally shoots down Iranian airliner 290 civilians killed.. Air warfare coordinator of ship received the navy's Commendation Medal for "heroic achievement," noting his "ability to maintain his poise and confidence under fire" that enabled him to "quickly and precisely complete the firing procedure". He just mistook airliner taking off to fighter starting to strafe ship... US government has never apologized for event officially, but that is not needed when dead civilians are not western, cost per corpse on this event is just 300000USD per adults and 150000 per kids and old. Lot smaller than for victims of Lockerbie incident.
1979 - US gov starts to fund Taliban and other anti Soviet forces in Afghanistan.
1886 - Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen - the first purpose-built automobile.
1884 - Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.
1866 - Battle of Königgratz.
1863 - Last day of battle of Gettysburg.
EDIT: dyslexia...
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MiserableBastard on Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:18 am, edited 1 time in total.