October 16th, 2008

Today in History

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

1996:
84 are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 soccer fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Mateo Flores Stadium in Guatemala City.

1970:
In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act.

1912:
Bulgarian pilots Radul Milkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the first bombing with an airplane in history.

1813:
The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.