October 15th, 2008

Today in History

1997:
The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.

1969:
Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in National Moratorium antiwar demonstrations across the United States.

1894:
Dreyfus affair begins.

1880:
Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.

1764:
Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire