Unix Timestamp: 1224028800
Wednesday, October 15. 2008, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Occupy Wall Street protests:

Montenegrin Prime Minister Željko Šturanović signs a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the European Union, saying that Montenegro is hoping to lodge an official application for EU membership in the first half of 2008. //euobserver.com/9/24972 (EUobserver)

2003 occupation of Iraq: U.S. concessions to proposals from Russia, the China and Pakistan ensure their support for a United Nations Security Council resolution to provide greater international legitimacy to the occupation force and the Iraq Interim Governing Council. The resolution draft, legitimizing US military and political control over Iraq's political future, was already supported by United Kingdom, Spain, Cameroon, Bulgaria, Angola, Mexico, Chile and Guinea. Russia agrees to act as a mediator to achieve support for the compromise also from Germany and France.//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32403-2003Oct15.html//slate.msn.com/id/2089881/

A Kiev judge ordered prosecutors to open a criminal probe of Ukraine's veteran President Leonid Kuchma, on charges of corruption and abuse of power.

ImClone Systems founder Sam Waksal pleaded guilty to bank fraud and conspiracy in an insider trading scandal that threatens Martha Stewart and her home decorating empire.

NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within of Jupiter's moon Io.

NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.

A National Geographic Society press conference reveals the fossil of "Archaeoraptor" (which is later found to be a forgery).

Several large strikes begin in various industries across Belgium in protest to the dismissal of the magistrate Jean-Marc Connerotte by the Supreme Court.

The Carolina Panthers win their first-ever regular season game by defeating the New York Jets at Clemson Memorial Stadium in South Carolina.

United States Senate votes 52–48 to confirm Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Two commuter trains collide head-on on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia 102 are killed.

U.S. warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf

Black Monday: Stock market levels fall sharply on Wall Street and around the world.

October 16 ndash Great Storm of 1987: Hurricane-force winds hit much of South England, killing 23 people.

Black Monday events, in which members of a political group sack a newspaper office, unfold in Malta.

The 2,500 Year Celebration of Iran begins, celebrating the birth of Persia.

Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam demonstrations across the United States.

In Mexico City, black American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their arms in a black power salute after winning, respectively, the gold and bronze medals in the Olympic men's 200 metres.

Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, provoked by the banning of Walter Rodney from the country.

Led Zeppelin makes their first live performance, at Surrey University in England//www.rockhall.com/inductee/led-zeppelin

Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war protest in Manhattan. One draft card burner is arrested, the first under the new law.

Anti-war protests draw 100,000 in 80 U.S. cities and around the world.

Police find a girl's body on Saddleworth Moor near Oldham in Lancashire. The body is quickly identified as that of 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey, who disappeared on Boxing Day the previous year from a fairground in the Ancoats area of Manchester. Ian Brady, arrested for the murder of a 17-year-old man in nearby Hattersley, is charged with murdering Lesley, as is his 23-year-old girlfriend Myra Hindley.

Hurricane Hazel makes U.S. landfall it is the only recorded Category 4 hurricane to strike as far north as North Carolina.

The comic strip "Hi and Lois", by Mort Walker and Dik Browne, is launched.

Texas Instruments announces the development of the first transistor radio.

The United Nations' first meeting in Long Island is held.

Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Göring, founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi war criminal, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution.

Nazi War criminals convicted in the Nuremberg Trials are executed by hanging in a gymnasium in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice premises.

WWII: Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, is shot to death by a firing squad for treason against France.

the sumbmarine HMS Torbay (N79) bombards the Libyan port of Apollonia.

Mid-October ndash First production P-38E Lightning fighter produced by Lockheed.

The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.

Ernest Hemingway's novel "To Have and Have Not" is first published.

The sixth tropical storm developed in the Gulf of Mexico. It was a rare occurrence, it consisted of four active tropical storms simultaneously.

Roy and Walt Disney found The Walt Disney Company.

Fifth tropical storm of the year, formed north of the Leeward Islands.

WWI: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany.

WWI: Austria-Hungary invades the Kingdom of Serbia. Kingdom of Bulgaria enters the war, invading Kingdom of Serbia. The retreat of the Serbian First Army towards Greece begins the Serbian Caign (WWI).

Theta Tau, the Professional Engineering Fraternity, is founded at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Dreyfus affair: French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.

The Supreme Court of the United States declares part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to be unconstitutional, allowing individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race.

Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.

Chief Lone Horn of the Minneconjou dies at the Cheyenne River, leaving his son Big Foot as the new chief.

American Civil War: The first operable submarine, the CSS ''Hunley'' sinks during a test, killing Horace Lawson Hunley (its inventor) and a crew of seven.

American Civil War: The first operable submarine, the CSS "Hunley" sinks during a test, killing Horace Lawson Hunley (its inventor) and a crew of seven.

The City of Winona, Minnesota is founded.

Abd al-Kader declares a jihad against the French.

Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.

English scholar Edward Gibbon conceives the idea of writing "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" as I sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol.

The Jews of Lublin are massacred.

Escape of Charles II to France.ref name=CBH

The Keian Uprising fails in Japan.

Madanmohan-jiu Temple built at Samta (India), a village in the Howrah district of West Bengal.

Official opening of the University of Tartu in Swedish Livonia.

With the season growing late, Suleiman abandons the siege.

Castello Estense in Ferrara (present-day Italy)

The Hongwu Emperor of China's Ming Dynasty relents after eighteen tribute missions over the previous eight years and agrees to invest King U of Goryeo.

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Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde conquers parts the Jalayirid Empire in western Persia, causing a rift between himself and Timur of the Timurid Empire, who had also wanted to conquer Persia.

The Battle of Valverde is fought between the armies of Portugal and Castile.

Scotland resists a small invasion force from England led by Richard II.

A group of Hungarian nobles help Charles III of Naples to overthrow Queen Mary as ruler of Hungary and Croatia.

Olav IV of Norway is elected as King of Sweden, in opposition to the unpopular King Albert.

The marriage of Charles VI of France and Isabella of Bavaria-Straubing is celebrated with France's first court ball.

Bodiam Castle (East Sussex, England)

Battle of the Rhyndacus: the Latin emperorHenry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperorTheodore I Lascaris.

Troops led by Estonian resistance fighter Lembitu of Lehola destroy a garrison of missionaries in the historical Estonian region of Sakala, and raid the Russian town of Pskov.

Mongol forces under Genghis Khan invade Jin China, aiming at this stage simply to loot the countryside. A Chinese army is defeated and slaughtered at the Badger\\'s Mount Caign near Zhangjiakou and another is beaten at Mukden, where the city is taken. Beijing is also besieged by the Mongol hordes.

The church in the French city of Reims burns down soon after, construction begins on the Notre Dame de Reims Cathedral.