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October 12, 2004
Looking Back
On this day in
1933, bank robber John Dillinger escaped from a jail in Allen County, Ohio, with the help of his gang, who killed the sheriff.
1942, during World War II, American naval forces defeated the Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance.
1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a "fireside chat" in which he recommended the drafting of 18- and 19-year-old men.
1960, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a U.N. General Assembly session by pounding his desk with a shoe during a dispute.
1964, the Soviet Union launched a Voskhod space capsule with a three-man crew on the first manned mission involving more than one crew member.
1973, President Nixon nominated House minority leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.
2002, a bomb blamed on Islamic terrorists destroyed a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people, many of them foreign tourists.
Posted by LindaSoG at October 12, 2004 08:00 AM