On this day :
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, 1775 Peyton Randolph dies, 1965 President Lyndon Johnson signs the Highway Beautification Act, 1864 Hood at Guntersville Alabama, 1962 Kennedy announces blockade of Cuba during the Missile Crisis, 1934 Pretty Boy Floyd is killed by the FBI, 1913 Coal mine explodes in New Mexico, 1797 The first parachutist, 1975 Gay sergeant challenges the Air Force, 1952 Jeff Goldblum born, 1964 Sartre wins and declines Nobel Prize, 1811 Pianist and composer Franz Liszt is born, 1903 Tom Horn is hanged in Wyoming for the murder of Willie Nickell, 1962 JFK announces a blockade of Cuba, 1992 Baseball Hall of Fame announcer Red Barber dies at 84, 2012 Cyclist Lance Armstrong is stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, 1957 American forces suffer first casualties in Vietnam, 1965 173rd Airborne trooper saves comrades, 1972 President Thieu turns down peace proposal, 1914 Germans capture Langemarck during First Battle of Ypres, 1942 Allies confer secretly about Operation Torch,
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