October 16th, 2008

Today in History

2001:
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: U.S. warplanes mistakenly bomb International Red Cross warehouse in Kabul, Afghanistan.

1869:
England's first residential college for women, Girton College, Cambridge, is founded.

456:
Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire

1984:
Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

1964:
People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon